Re: Lockie Lam : Mon Aug 05, 2024 8:26 am  

mwindass wrote:

But Bob said he's deffo signed. Do find it odd the only people who are saying he's singed are Rovers fans.... not met one Hull fan who is confident at all

There’s now way you’d do what’s potentially the biggest deal of the clubs history and what reportedly could be the biggest contract in the competition and leave it all up in the air having to move someone else on. The club obviously felt they had the cap space and the money available to do the deal, they offered it and it just wasn’t for player, whatever the situation is with Trueman is it’s not the reason why Lam didn’t happen.

Re: Lockie Lam : Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:10 am  

Think Trueman is gone if Wakey can afford him. Also think Hull would have had a good idea a couple of weeks ago that Lam wasn't going to accept, I'll be disappointed if we haven't got someone else lined up, good chamce it's Sullivan IMO, too much noise around him.

Re: Lockie Lam : Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:41 am  

DSJ1983 wrote:

There’s now way you’d do what’s potentially the biggest deal of the clubs history and what reportedly could be the biggest contract in the competition and leave it all up in the air having to move someone else on. The club obviously felt they had the cap space and the money available to do the deal, they offered it and it just wasn’t for player, whatever the situation is with Trueman is it’s not the reason why Lam didn’t happen.

You seem very confident it's not happening....

Re: Lockie Lam : Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:55 am  

Funny that nothings been said what so ever. Even speaking to Leigh fans they don't have a clue, they're just hoping.

We will probably see later this week. I've seen a couple of post from FC fans claiming it's done deal!

Re: Lockie Lam : Tue Aug 06, 2024 10:47 am  

Like Asiata, if he did come, it would only be for the money and as we've seen before that can end up being a bad deal for the club unless they can really sell the vision to him once he's arrived. I still don't think it will happen. Regardless of the money, it's a big risk for him if he has any NRL ambitions as there's no guarantee the club will turn things around to any great extent.

Re: Lockie Lam : Tue Aug 06, 2024 11:22 am  

Unfortunately money is the only way we can attract those type of players at moment.

If he signs a long term deal in the kind of money rumoured, he will stay as no NRL club would match that type of cash for a player who clubs probably see as a back up.

Not sure why but NRL clubs don't seem to fancy Lam, maybe it is his salary.

Re: Lockie Lam : Tue Aug 06, 2024 11:38 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Unfortunately money is the only way we can attract those type of players at moment.

If he signs a long term deal in the kind of money rumoured, he will stay as no NRL club would match that type of cash for a player who clubs probably see as a back up.

Not sure why but NRL clubs don't seem to fancy Lam, maybe it is his salary.

It's got the new PNG franchise written all over it .

Re: Lockie Lam : Tue Aug 06, 2024 11:49 am  

The png franchise is a few years off yet, isn't it? Sure I'd seen 2027 or 28 mentioned

Re: Lockie Lam : Tue Aug 06, 2024 3:59 pm  

Leigh to announce a new deal for Lam before the game on Sunday, makes sense with lam saying things will be sorted this week…

Re: Lockie Lam : Tue Aug 06, 2024 4:48 pm  

HU8HFC wrote:

Leigh to announce a new deal for Lam before the game on Sunday, makes sense with lam saying things will be sorted this week…

The club would have realised that it was being used by Lam to leverage a better deal at Leigh and have moved on and identified other targets.