wow he managed to hoodwink another club into believing his annual story of a queue of SL clubs offering him contracts line. You have to take your hat off to him it works every time !! At least this contract term means he won't have to do it for another 4 years.....it was an annual thing at Halifax

One flaw in this post is that Barlow already had two more years to run on a Leigh Contract, to which our director of football was quite willing to hold him to if he did not sign the new deal.

The second flaw is that negotiations were carried out by Sams agent.

Would say it speaks far more of his quality of performance this season that nobody who has watched his regularly questioned the reported interest from Leeds, he's been THAT good.

Personally Im glad we didnt, it seems Leigh and Sam are a good fit but for whatever reason Fax(insert 3 other clubs names) and Sam were not and obviously in the end up it ended with Sam having to request a transfer because he couldnt get in the team. He did have a couple of good games for us but was far too inconsistent and when he was compared to players like Ambler and Divorty, although no frills type players we were getting a lot more from them than what Sams massive wage commanded hence why both those players have had genuine approaches from SL teams since coming to Fax.



Hopefully Fax will get another chance to face Sam and Leigh again this season.

We hope so and thanks for the compliment to Leigh's coaching staff Greg.

We may not be Superleague (yet....), but a bigger club did come in for him, in the end.



And he's settled there.





Kisses.....