if Solomona is popular in the team then it is worth keeping him for morale purposes alone?

If you mean whilst he sees out his time at the club whilst we're still paying him anyway, then yes, untill the end of the season I'd go with that - hopefully he'll contribute as much as he can off the field to help the club when he can.

If you mean keep him as in give him a new contract for next year, then definately not.

Based just on what has been in the papers, Sol's injury is a sight worse than the one that finished Terry Holmes, and while they can do a lot with modern surgery techniques, ATEOTD there is a very serious risk of re-ocurrence (as Sol's re-ocurrence itself illustrates). A risk which I don't think the club can afford to take.

I still believe Sol has got plenty of rugby left in him, and wouldn't be against some sort of new contract, but it would have to be on some kind of play-and-pay basis, we can't afford 6 months of top whack wages while he's injured. To protect himself he could of course take out a salary protection insurance if the medical omens were said to be good.

no, i don't think a new contract will be coming his way. for team morale we could try and get solomona turning up at match days or training. He can still go visiting schools as well to promote the bulls.

Yep, I agree with that - he can still have a positive impact for the club whilst he's here but his playing time with the Bulls is up for mine.



No thats right I dont think the club can afford to take the risk, and Sol himself needs to get the very best advice on what he does next so he does not do himself serious long term damage which might have consequences beyond his rugby career.

Get rid asap as far as im concened, massive let down and must take up a big chunk of salary cap too.

We have some money to spend, we didnt end up with Bird in the end so with Solomona leaving too I expect some decent players to come in at the end of the season otherwise I wont be too happy.

I think we also need to focus on the players who we want to keep for next year, i guess it's going to be a bit of a swinging door.