My advice to Marc Green is to look at the contract small print very very carefully! In fact I suggest he asks Caisley to look at it! After all he does have prior experience!

Statement on official Leigh website naming us as the club Brierley is leaving Leigh for. www.leighcenturions.com/news/978 Hmm....

Statement on official Leigh website naming us as the club Brierley is leaving Leigh for. www.leighcenturions.com/news/978 Hmm....

We don't have a shaped door. How's he going to get in?

So I have caught up thanks to the Leigh board which is in complete melt down and will be burn Ryan at the stake later (maybe rightly if his 'demand' is true...)

Personally I don't believe he will be coming to Bradford. To me it seems more of a reaction to him wanting to leave so the mud gets thrown at the blue eyed boy to turn the Leigh fans against him and if you can sling some mud at your championship rivals too then that's a bonus hence Ryan is going to Bradford statement.

I would hope we have done everything above board if we have any hand in this. As much as I think Ryan could potential be the missing key we need I wouldn't want it to cost us everything we have built since Marc green took over.

Never a dull moment..

Don't think brierley is right player for us TBH. Too similar to Gaskell IMO.

But that aside, and not knowing whether there's any truth in Leigh's claims about an approach.

Think the timings interesting. Leigh have had all week to make a statement about Ryan. Yet they've waited until after close of business on Friday to come out with something. So not going to get any response from RFL til tomorrow, Monday probably more likely. And conveniently they waited until after start of Jewish sabbath so unlikely to get a immediate response from Green.

Their also careful to not make a direct claim that Bradford approached Ryan. Instead it's Ryan told us Bradford approached him. So if it isn't true and we took legal action would we have to sue Ryan as the source of the rumour?.

Leigh's statement has Derek's stamp all over it. I have no time for all the "he said", "she said" crap. All as unprofessional as one expects from him. He acts like a nasty child in the playground.

I hope they got their facts right about Bradford before naming them. He could quite easily have said an 'un-named club' had made an approach and passed the info onto the RFL to investigate.

My money would be on Ryan going to Huddersfield anyway.

The only thing on Ryan's Twitter page is a re-tweet from his agent:

"never disrupterd a player in my life! Ryan his is own man #fact never judge till you know truth ! Always 2 sides"

I don't take anything that comes out of the Leigh club as gospell. There's more to this than Bradford simply approaching the player.

Both Derek and Koukash appear to think it's all a big game where they can go around doing and saying whatever they want.

I disagree. I don't believe that's a reason to not sign him as at the moment everyone knows Gaskell is our danger man and teams go out of their way to shut him down. Now, if you've two guys like that on the field, which one do you shut down? Can you afford to put an extra guy mark both of them? Because that's going to cause gaps elsewhere on the field.

Plus Brierley's addition will take some of the pressure off Gaskell's shoulders and let him play his more natural game.

All that being said, however, I am still nervous of us signing a half back from a rival club when there's questionable legal issues over his move. After all, that's what started our slide down the table in the first place.

Quote ="Pumpetypump"Statement on official Leigh website naming us as the club Brierley is leaving Leigh for. www.leighcenturions.com/news/978 Hmm....'" What a statement. Derek said neil said ryan said the tea lady said.........I've no idea what's going on, but if I had to back Marc green or "he said" Derek do have done things properly I know who I'm backing. And if that clause is in Ryan's contract then I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in all my time following pro sport, and whoever agreed to it at Leigh's end should quit as he clearly wouldn't know his ar$e from his elbow. I also note chase still has "flu" apparently, something's not right behind the scenes at all conquering Leigh. I await for the Bulls response. Statement concludes. (End)

Quote ="Pumpetypump"Statement on official Leigh website naming us as the club Brierley is leaving Leigh for. www.leighcenturions.com/news/978 Hmm....'" What a statement. Derek said neil said ryan said the tea lady said.........I've no idea what's going on, but if I had to back Marc green or "he said" Derek do have done things properly I know who I'm backing. And if that clause is in Ryan's contract then I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in all my time following pro sport, and whoever agreed to it at Leigh's end should quit as he clearly wouldn't know his ar$e from his elbow. I also note chase still has "flu" apparently, something's not right behind the scenes at all conquering Leigh. I await for the Bulls response. Statement concludes. (End)

I suspect Gaskell would have to alter his game a little to accommodate a player like Brierley but I think he is capable of taking on a more structured role within the team. Given the lack of scrum halves available I think he would be a good addition and much better than no scrum half or a Siejka. Our side definitely needs another running threat since we lost Mullaney.

Whether he is worth another potential legal battle is debatable though, so I'd hope we check very carefully before offering him a deal once he is 'a free agent'.

Still, I'd be surprised if we managed to land him over SL clubs that are apparently circling.

Do you think ryan wrote that himself after a few wines.

Apparently somebody's altered/updated the Bulls Wikipedia page. Take a look it's rather funny, on the 2016 transfers section

"Money grabber"

Brierley denies Bulls have approached him
Totalrl.com

Brierley mentions in his denial that the conversation with Jukes never happened, he has no deal agreed with a club and he didn't ask for the pay rise.

If that's true (and it's difficult to say which side are telling the truth), then it could be Leigh being the ones sued over the claims they've made where they named the Bulls.

It's a funny old saga this one, and no mistake. It's nice for another club to be making the headlines for the wrong reasons for a change.

What a soap opera this is.

Fully expect Derek to come out with another statement in response to Brierleys statement

Honestly I hope the Bulls play no part in this. Literally utter not a single word or press statement whatsoever. Stay well out of this mess completely.

Completely agree. We shouldn't let this distract us from our season preparations and concentrating on our own games.

Even though most fans will call for blood unless they are personally told exactly what is going on my the club....

Same and that does seem to be something that Green does. He rarely interacts on social media, even when Koukash was bashing him on Twitter after the leaked letter.

Interesting he also mentions things going on at the club be doesn't agree with.

With Leigh self destructing, Salford in trouble regarding SC, KR appointing James Webster, big opportunity for us.

Wasn't the received wisdom that we'd be screwed this year because nobody would melt down like Wakefield did?

Indeed it was.


Of course, no one has ...........yet!

There are three candidates in HKR, Leigh, and Salford, Wakey have form, and Huddersfield, while they will probably pull it back round, are at least candidates for having a shocker. Whilst I take no joy in the failings of other clubs, it brings the dignified, steady approach of Bradford into stark relief and I take great pleasure in that.

I wouldn't wanna get into a legal wrangle with Beaumont because he may be the sort of man who will stop at nothing to preserve his pride, and taking issues with him to court could lead literally anywhere and could last a ling time.

Looking at both Leigh and Salford it makes me thankful we got Marc Green as our owner. He may not be a mega millionaire but he comes over as a very sensible chap who will do things right and that may count for us with the RFL if they have any quiet chats about changing the set up to allow dead wood to drop out of SL and devising a better way for a well run championship team to move up. We should stay well away from any of this nonsense and get on with building our club back up in a responsible way.

On Brierley, I doubt that many SL clubs will be looking at him. There has to be doubt about his ability at that level. He has apparently got set up for 2017 so it would be a short term deal that would be unsuitable for most clubs. Hudds are desperate for someone but most other teams are fine for halves.