I dont buy into this Super League contract torn up if club relegated. I could see a 3 year contract being terminated by mutual consent, god knows we seem to have cancelled plenty over the years. Often looking a little foolish for so doing, Akers being a prime example. Any club worth it's salt, might enter a relegation clause of reduced money as that makes sense. Fulham did that & will save tens of millions of pounds as a result of relegation from the Premier League.
Strikes me as loony to offer 1 year contracts unless its to see if a player makes the grade.
Hull is only a couple of hundred miles away, not like coming from Australia. Maybe northerners don't travel well?