Leeds declaring their interest in signing Sam Burgess is like me declaring my interest in a romantic weekend with Rachel Riley.

Both are not happening anytime soon.

Simple math equation to get the right answer to both. Beer + time.

Never give up on your dream!

id love him to go straight in the england squad, if only for marketing purposes, but the lad needs a break for a while.

Good question stranger things have happened non more so than how the tide is now turning, BBC Radio Five's Alastair Eykyn saying Burgess is a great loss to the sport having all the tools to become a fantastic player in union, but now we will never know.

Burgess was never given a fair chance he had far to many detractors, Unions loss.

Newsflash from Headingley

Leeds pack next year will include
Lee Mossop, Darryl Clark, Sam Burgess and Joe Westerman.

Let's see your laughing when Clark joins us in 2017 that's why Beau Fallon has only signs a 1 year.

dont forget they had also made a bid for Mickey Mac (to play as interchange with Clark or instead of, I cant remember which..!!)
And Ryan Brierley was another member of the "nailed on" club.

if it was another clubs fans making these claims they be laughed out till boxing day.... but we have to sit back and say "Aye well you're treble winners you're right... why would players want to play for our crappy clubs... come take as many as you want"

Seriously? Over the last few years Warrington fans on this very board have stated that the likes of Jonathan Thurston, Paul Gallen etc are genuine targets for your club.

These Sam Burgess to Leeds rumours weren't the made up pipe dream of a day dreaming Leeds fan. Bookies, journalists, broadcasters etc all reported that there was a possibility it was on the cards. IIRC it was one of the big bookmakers who first generated the possibility after stopping taking bets on Burgess to Leeds. I can't see how it's done Leeds any harm on a global scale either, quite the opposite, the clubs been seen internationally to be a major player, although realistically we (UK RL fans) know that this isn't really possible due to our comparatively lower salary cap.

stupid a gullible award of the year goes to......

yea, we all thought we were signing thurston and gallen at their prime... no we really did.

think you need to go and smell the fear with sgt wilko

anyway, apart from the leeds fans tears and feet stomping....

its a great day for rugby league.... im very happy sam burgess has come back to our sport.

i tweeted Brain Moore and told him Burgess was too good for union after he had a pop at him.. he RT me and ive been getting loads of abuse of union fans.... best day on the internet in ages for me.

Think you've missed the point. I think most Leeds fans didn't think we were going to sign him. Maybe you need to re-read my post, it wasn't Leeds fans reporting the story.

no, i didnt need to re-read it.... you tried to laugh at us for thinking we could sign thurston and gallen, when we all know it was message board humour.

its ok, ive seen the posts on the leeds board saying you are signing burgess.

anyway.. got to go... im off for a meal with Rachel Riley xx

Difference again is no Wire fan says "spoke to a guy who works at the club and he told me we spoke to Thurston and hes definitely coming end of season"

There's a difference between Internet wish lists and people knowing people in the know claiming he's definitely coming.

You have people who have claimed out right that Clark and Westerman have told Leeds they are Leeds bound.
Brierley was coming if Leigh didn't get promoted...news flash, they didn't get promoted, where is he right now? At Leeds?

How was your Krusty burger.

I think 2 posters have claimed they have information that Clark and Westerman were coming to Leeds.

How do you know there was nothing in either?

How's Kevin Sinfield's house hunting going in Stockton Heath?
Has Paul Sculthorpe received his Paul Sculthorpe & Warrington Wolves branded BMW yet from HJ?

Me personally, I don't believe anything I read on forums. But sometimes the speculation, despite official sources claiming there's nothing in it, turns out to be true. Like when Leeds signed Tom Briscoe. There was speculation, again denied by Leeds and Hull, that he'd signed for Leeds about 4 months before it was made official. Somebody, somehow, had got information from somewhere and posted it online.

Sam tells his side of the story, sounds like he was seriously peed off with the whole 'RU experiment' www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... -t-it.html

Sam tells his side of the story, sounds like he was seriously peed off with the whole 'RU experiment' www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... -t-it.html

Are you american by any chance? They don't seem to get jokes neither.

Back on thread The 3 point code are getting in a bit of a tailspin over the whole Burgess affair www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/34783108 Mike Ford doesn't exactly portray himself in a good light. More like some petulant teenager that's been "blown out" by a good looking girl in a night club, when he asked her for a dance. The only winner in this whole affair, is Burgess. He'll've got a massive signing on fee Handsomely paid in union another signing on fee from Souths, as a "tempter" back to league and handsomely paid, again. His agent will be rubbing his hands

Back on thread The 3 point code are getting in a bit of a tailspin over the whole Burgess affair www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/34783108 Mike Ford doesn't exactly portray himself in a good light. More like some petulant teenager that's been "blown out" by a good looking girl in a night club, when he asked her for a dance. The only winner in this whole affair, is Burgess. He'll've got a massive signing on fee Handsomely paid in union another signing on fee from Souths, as a "tempter" back to league and handsomely paid, again. His agent will be rubbing his hands

Mike Ford ladies and gentlemen

The same Mike Ford who played in that appalling 80-0 loss to St Helens that forced a decent coach to resign.

www.zerotackle.com/nrl/nrl-block ... act-19810/

www.zerotackle.com/nrl/nrl-block ... act-19810/

Cullen played in that game too and then became a coach.

I was there for that game and feel ill at the thought of it.
Can anyone remember the date of that game. I though it was 1994 but my memory is rubbish

January 1996