I believe so along with Brian McDermott and Stephen Kearney. He is 10/1 with some bookies aswell.

Because Bailey isn't the reigning MoS, wasn't moving clubs, and is an average player who's been kept around for his influence.

I don't really see the comparison with Bailey tbh, if i'm wrong about Hodgsons wage then fair enough. But surely you must assume he's not moving clubs for peanuts, even with the security of the two years?

haha, doesn't work like that.

utter tosh! he's head and shoulders above any recent signing your club has made, you slagged king off when he first signed, monaghan when he played at 7.

tbh your statement just reinforces what a good signing he really is.

As a Giants fan I am sad to see Brett go but I think the Giants have made the right call on this, The reason for this is he will be 33 before he plays a game for you, he has played 7 out of 17 games for the Giants this season and is now out for another month.
If we had signed him for another year I would have been delighted, 2 years and it's a tough call but feel we have made the right one? this will become clear over the next 2 seasons after this one, as to if it was right or wrong.
You are getting a thinker, a great professional who is positionally brilliant and a great influence, but you are also getting a player who needs to be able to offload to someone when he has taken the high ball, chip thru or grubber cos the pace isn't there anymore but then again it wasn't when he won MOS either.
Whatever happens good luck to the lad as he has done us proud.

can this be done?

Smith is obviously bringing him here for his coaching abilities as much as his playing skills.

Obviously there is a risk in giving Hodgson two years rather than one. The same is true for any player whether aged 22 or 32. Sometimes though if that's what it takes then you have to do it.

Remember common wisdom was that Warrington were the only muppets stupid enough to offer Morley a 4 year contract on his return to England. If that swayed Morley to sign for us then I guess we'll live with our mistake.

I don't think it can be done, I think the coaching wage counts on the cap as well. So any money they are paid by the club counts on the cap. Otherwise you'd have lots of people coming over as player coaches who ended up doing very little coaching I imagine.

well i didn't know the coaching role sits on the cap as well... you learn something new everyday.

The Coaches Salary are not taken into account for the cap. But i think player coaches salary does.

didnt Wigan do that with Deacon, some sort of coaching position / player

how old is paul deacon..at least we`ll get more game time out of hodgson

If a coach plays at any level in a RFL sanctioned fixture (Super League, Challange Cup or Academey) then their full salary will go against the cap.

I'm pretty sure this lead to one of Hull's breaches when they had one of the coaching staff turn out off the bench for the reserves due to a shortage of numbers. Does show that there can be a difference in salary cap breaches and not all of them are just plain cheating like Wigan's breaches were.

IIRC, Gary Chambers was going to help out with the reserves a couple of years ago but couldn't because he would then appear on the cap [size=85(yes, that's right Wigan fans, our club is run by people able to understand the cap and thus check out things first rather than try it on and hope to get away with it).[/size

Deacon was brought in as back up though for squad depth, and as someone else mentioned he is brought in as a player/coach. but his whole wage counts on the cap, the aim for this year was still on his playing, moving into a bit more coaching next year.

I think Hodgson is a good signing for you guys, but there is a risk due to his age and position, and the fact Hudds were willing to let him go. Comparing him to squad players like Bailey and Deacon isn't really the same.

Wasn't Deacon one of the "seven first team regulars" missing last week?

yep..plays 1 in 6...maybe we should have signed him in place of myler...just to go with all our other oldies...they sign deacon and things are fine we sign hodgson and its a risk...you could`nt make it up

Huddersfield had ho say in the matter.

They were willing to let him go for the sake of refusing that extra year. If they still thought he could do 2 year they would have given him two years.

Again no, if they play just the once, then the whole wage is counted on cap.

He was certainly in the Wigan team beat Warrington at the HJ earlier on this season. All the "seven" who didn't play against Quins played in that Wigan victory.

Q.E.D.

QED what?

You really aren't making sense. Huddersfield could have offered two years or even more and still would have no way of determining his staying or going.

He'd have stayed at Hudds had he been offered the two years he wanted. They were only willing to give him one, and then they gave him the permission to talk to you.

Would he?