Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:54 am  

atomic wrote:

Are we not challenging for SL then?

Apologies for the time lag on this response - I've only just got round to finding, then reading the Op. Rules on Salary Cap. By my way of understanding, the club 'only' ( ) has to bear the first £150k of a marquee player's salary. So, if say Gigot was being paid say £180k (12 x suggested £15k) the club would have to include £150k on their cap. But they would still have to stump up the £180k to pay the marquee player.

Not sure how good a deal that would be to the club, under the marquee ruling?

Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:57 pm  

And just like that the Ben barba rumour comes back I’m taking it with a pinch of salt but people don’t realise how close we actually come to signing him last season till there was a stop put on it. If he agrees what was offering him last season then don’t see why not

Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 6:04 pm  

Montyburns wrote:

And just like that the Ben barba rumour comes back I’m taking it with a pinch of salt but people don’t realise how close we actually come to signing him last season till there was a stop put on it. If he agrees what was offering him last season then don’t see why not

He had agreed to come and rl blocked it

Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 6:31 pm  

What I have just been told there is some truth in it hope they manage pull this one off. Saying that we already pulled it off once to be blocked

Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:06 pm  

Incredibly the Ben Barba to Leigh deal was signed and sealed and he was on his way for the play offs only to be undone at the eleventh hour by red tape.

Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:08 pm  

The Tony Gigot 'rumours' are just not falling off, as one would have expected, either.

Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:33 pm  

Harold Rigby Jnr wrote:

The Tony Gigot 'rumours' are just not falling off, as one would have expected, either.

We live in hope , Harold.

Re: Come on Monty.. : Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:03 pm  

Only time will tell now could end up being a few big names in team just what we need

Re: Come on Monty.. : Sat Nov 09, 2019 1:44 am  

kaykie6 wrote:

He had agreed to come and rl blocked it

If the NRL and SL have banned him from playing. Why should Championship be any different? Same for Sam Barlow.. Let’s move on.

Re: Come on Monty.. : Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:29 am  

Its a strange one that rumour, I don't believe Leigh should be getting involved with someone of his reputation great player or not if true.

The hole idea of banning him was to show that the rugby league community will not tolerate his kind of behaviour and having him at Leigh would be a poor show from this club.