Gareth Ellis, Mark Flanagan and Sam Burgess.. "Wigan stand-off Mark Flanagan is heading to Wests Tigers, who are also set to sign England forward Sam Burgess from Bradford for 2010." www.express.co.uk/posts/view/121 ... s-deported Think that is great imo. What does everyone else think?

Gareth Ellis, Mark Flanagan and Sam Burgess.. "Wigan stand-off Mark Flanagan is heading to Wests Tigers, who are also set to sign England forward Sam Burgess from Bradford for 2010." www.express.co.uk/posts/view/121 ... s-deported Think that is great imo. What does everyone else think?

Time for Sky "Sports" to start showing NRL games instead of Poker and Pool?

Reading the report: I thought Millard was heading to Bradford?

Apparently was a done deal until Wakefield sold Atkins to Warrington for £200,000 (all to be confirmed)

Will do Burgess the world of good to play in the NRL.

Warrington got their monies worth out of Ben Westwood (and Nathan Wood) via Wakefield and it will be interesting to see how much Atkins game will improve under uber coach Smith.

Mathers for one is already looking more like the player Leeds were reluctant to lose rather than the niggly waste of space he'd become at Wigan.

As for West Tigers, Go You Pommie Ockers.

Warrington are doing deals all over the shots at the moment (as the Richie Myler one shows) and apparently have Solomona on the way there too.

I have to agree with you there, Mathers is looking back to his old self at the moment in a Wire shirt, and I think that could be due to the fact that he is back with Tony Smith, the guy that didnt want to get rid of him.

Much agreed. However, from a SL point of view, I am gutted that the league is losing a player of his calibre, as at times, he is a joy to watch.

It makes a change for Leeds not to be losing a top class player to the NRL.

We haven't been the same side without Tansey.

It was the "death" of Millenium Magic for many fans.

Agreed. add to that Fishing. What the hell has happened to NRL coverage? is anyone showing it?

Sure will. It'll greatly benefit the England team as well.

The NRL Bigpond show coverage free to the UK FWIR, think that ESPN may get the rights as of next season.

Expect regular repeats of that incident where Nathan Wood ran down the tunnel under the stand after scoring and allegedly ate a hot dog. Key differences being that Solomona won't have scored, may not do it at a run and probably won't come back......

I thought Bigpond didn't work from UK ISP's. Or was that just the World Cup streaming?

They announced during SoO II that it was available free via Bigpond in the UK, after Setanta had gone to the wall. I think they changed the rules at that point and have kept to that ever since.

Expect a much slimmer solomona when he eventually does return to training, he was at kirkstall training ground saturday with tadulala and brent webb, brent webbs gf was playing tag finals (her team won) and webb presented the trophies.

If all confirmed, I think Warrington have done some very good deals. Warrington's squad has looked good on paper for a couple of years now and now that they have a decent coach, coupled with good business like this, they look a good early bet for SL title next year!