Somewhere amongst all this carry on with Ryan there is a 23 year old young man having to deal with a vindictiveness that should have been dealt with by the governing body if no one else is capable of sorting it out. Rugby League cares is trying to sort out the problems that are faced by many sportsmen and women and this sort of acrimony is not helpful or condusive to the mental health of our sports people.

the thing is its Brierley that keeps going to the press and leaves the club no option to replied,for the last 2 years Brierley is never far away from the media and he loves the spotlight but now he's not the big fish at the club he's not happy and he's spat his dummy.If he wants to go let him but if he loves Leigh like he keeps saying why didn't he let them get a transfer fee for him

sorry but you don't live in Leigh and only get bits of the things that are actually said,Brierley contradicted himself on twitter to what he said in his statement and iv known a lot of the people at Leigh for years so I know who I believe

It doesn't matter who we believe, it needs sorting in private by someone in authority. It should never have got this far.

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Quote ="roger daly"I see Ryan Brierleys dad has responded to Jukes comments on Twitter [uI believe his dad. Fat Derek pulling the strings again, all end in tears'" [/u Jukes defends himself. www.totalrl.com/jukes-leigh-cent ... -brierley/ You believe Ryan's dad just because you hate Derek, no other reason.

Quote ="roger daly"I see Ryan Brierleys dad has responded to Jukes comments on Twitter [uI believe his dad. Fat Derek pulling the strings again, all end in tears'" [/u Jukes defends himself. www.totalrl.com/jukes-leigh-cent ... -brierley/ You believe Ryan's dad just because you hate Derek, no other reason.

Quote ="Cokey"[/u Jukes defends himself. www.totalrl.com/jukes-leigh-cent ... -brierley/ You believe Ryan's dad just because you hate Derek, no other reason.'" Cokey, Jukes defends himself and Brierley defends himself and their stories are different. Why do you believe Jukes

Quote ="Cokey"[/u Jukes defends himself. www.totalrl.com/jukes-leigh-cent ... -brierley/ You believe Ryan's dad just because you hate Derek, no other reason.'" Cokey, Jukes defends himself and Brierley defends himself and their stories are different. Why do you believe Jukes

Do you actually know though? Have you witnessed or seen or have documents which back up what you know? If you do and you know then you will be able without fear of legal repercussions to put this information into the public domain. Or is it that what you know is a strong rumour from a reliable source. The only thing I know about this is that it is a silly mess (opinion) that for some reason is being played out in the media (fact).

If Brierley said he has had an approach by Bradford but will stay for an extra £15k he stands to gain £15k.

If Jukes makes up a lie about Brierley saying he was approached by Bradford but will stay for £15k he stands to gain... nowt. Quite the opposite it caused a massive drama and turmoil at the club days before a big game against Sheffield.

I 100% believe that Brierley has said what he is alleged to have said. Whether that offer was ever actually made or if it was merely a bargaining tool thinking he had us over a barrel with all our other half backs injured... that I am not so certain of.

Well to say he will do what it takes to prove he his not lying,Is good enough for me.

BTW - Why do you believe Ryan's dad?

And can you clarify how you know the reason why chase isn't playing?

I think most people on here know where I get a bit of info from and I tend to believe him

So it's rumour then. Not saying it isn't correct, it may well be, but you don't actually know.

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Apart from the complete denial from the Bulls that this has happened. And the denial from RB himself involving the Bulls.

In fact there's only [uone [/uperson who dragged the Bulls name into the whole sordid/hillarious mess......

I was just responding to the Drust post. He said it was pretty obvious what had happened and then went on to describe what would be an illegal approach by Bradford.

Leigh were dealing with all of this internally from Monday up to Thursday night until somebody (presumably RB or his agent) went to the press about it and it got announced live on Sky Sports. At which point all hell broke loose between the Leigh fans and an announcement had to be made by the club in response.

Whoever you believe the constant to and fro in the public eye doesn't reflect well on either side. There are ways of dealing with issues like this and giving a running commentary in the media isn't it.

it's never appropriate to discuss details of individual disputes in public. It doesn't happen in the "normal" workplace and shouldn't happen in RL either.

The latest comment by Jukes where he went on about Jeremy Kyle and the lie detector was ridiculous.

How do you know it's wasn't Derek who leaked the news to Sky, anything is possible with him. He could be trying to make Brierley out to be the bad guy

Why presume that? Surely that is not a fair comment

[url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/sportbulls/14325438.Brierley_hits_back_at_Leigh_accusations_____and_insists_no_Bulls_deal_is_on_the_table/todays t&a[/url

[i"The RFL are watching developments with interest and Bulls managing director Steve Ferres said Bradford would only look to explore the possibility of signing Brierley if the player exercised any such release clause in his contract and became a free agent."[/i

No direct quotes, but Ross has clearly spoken to someone from the Bulls side and possibly the rfl. As has been said, the Bulls need to do everything above board if we are interested. And as one of the best halfs in the league might be available on 1st April, we should be interested.

If we've not been involved, and done nothing wrong, its right for the club to say nothing - why should they? They should avoid getting involved in the Leigh circus as much as possible. (I particularly liked the part of Leigh's statement that said it was upset about confidential info being leaked, only to then in the next paragraph detail the £15k extra that Ryan allegedly demanded, presumably in private if at all

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Problem is now, whichever club signs him in April (and someone will - hes too good to sit out the season waiting for his Leeds 2017 contract to start), for however long a contract, DB and everyone at Leigh will cry foul against that club - especially if its Bradford, even if we've genuinely had nothing to do with the situation up to now. I'd almost recommend whichever club tries to sign him gets the RFL to confirm his availability first.

Because they are the only people that knew about it other than the club. The club had nothing to gain from making it public. Quite the opposite. Have you seen the state of things surrounding Leigh since this came out? It has been a nightmare. Never has a so called 'banter page' been so inappropriately named! No advantage to Leigh at all in going to the press with this and disrupting the club and the team who are having enough problems as it is.

Brierley gets to put himself in the shop window by going public with the fact that he is 'up for grabs' in 4 weeks time. There is also a LOT of previous for info about Brierley being leaked to the press. His 'Rowley clause' that was made public within an hour of Rowley leaving the club as just one example.

Only one party had anything to gain by leaking this to the press and it wouldn't be the first time it had happened.

At least all this is deflecting away from the reason why Chase isn't playing.

He's got flu, keep up....

If people are acting like s then the appropriateness of the name would be about average. Joining anything on FB with the word 'banter' in the name is what makes them s.



Quite. It is absolutely not in the best interests of the club, either short or long term.

Might be in the best short term interests of whoever drove a coach with Leigh running through his veins, a senior member of the board and the club's top try scorer over the last two years out though. Particularly if that person spent the whole off season telling everyone else how in his opinion the rest of the world trails in his wake. Such a person might represent the club without being the club.

Lots of possible scenarios.

and there was me thinking it was a hip injury...