It's what clubs do

Personally thought Briscoe handled himself impeccably through it.

I agree, he was dignified and professional throughout, despite the uncertainty in his career and having some big decisions to make.

As do I.

Briscoe wanted to stay but he had signed the 5 year deal with leeds and they would have wanted a big fee off FC for him to do a u-turn we have bomber to thank for this.

So, it's Bombers fault that Briscoe wanted to leave and then changed his mind?

I never liked McRae or saw the point in him, but even I think this is a stretch mate.

Id rather a player do what Toms done nad keep quiet until boths clubs seasons are over.

Dont like it when you know players already signed for another team and know who they are mid season.

Tom showed 100% commitment whilst wearing our shirt, what more can we ask

In a way I'm glad he's gone (not from a rugby POV mind), the bile & vitriol shown by so called fans on here denegrating Tom on the back of pure fantasy & speculation means from this fans viewpoint I'm glad he is away from it.

A young man whom burst onto the scene (quite literally) and did us proud time & time again, his form may have dipped but can you say hand on heart how many of our players that could be said of throughout the season? form is temporary, class is permanent as they say.

When you consider that his next move was going to secure his future for a large portion of his (rugby) working career do you not think this burden could well have had an effect on his on field performances especially taking into account leaving family & friends if going to Australia?

As many here have never moved outside their own postcode never mind to another country half way around the world you can't understand what this individual may have been thinking. I precluded earlier this season that his family may well have come first in his decision and if for whatever reason an NRL deal fell through then this made his choice far easier.
If it is in fact true that we had already lined his wages up for someone else where else was he going to go? Even if we did offer him more and he turned it down maybe the lure of actually being appreciated and being nearer to family plus being at a club with a chance of being in the mix for winning stuff was more of a draw than the financial aspect. Certainly I know it was for me.
Idiots on here blethering utter shat need to get off his back and take a look closer to home as to why you spout so much unwarranted nastiness, it shows up more about you as a person than it does Tom Briscoe...

Good luck Tom, don't score too many against us..

Quite right and both respective chairmen need acknowledgement as well for letting it all go in a smooth and professional manner. Something a certain nasty embittered dwarf should take note of.

Well briscoe was after going to oz and FC was going to sort a deal where he returns to us but McRae said nothing would be on the table upon his return the oz deal never materialised and McRae said the deal what we offered was no longer available hence our only england star on a 5 year deal at the champions so you go and stretch what you want standee??

gemmel,harrison.hicks.crane,crooks,schofield,bai,bill drake,skerrett to name but a few
who have left us to go to leeds why should tom briscoe be different
ps i stand to be corrected as memory is not as good as it was isnt this why "we all hate leeds"

Bai never left us to go to Leeds.

HTH

will Briscoe make the big games aganst Australia?, he'll probably play against either Ireland or Fiji

fwiw, as good as Briscoe is I expect another winger called Tom who plays for us to take his place in a couple of years

Tom is a wonderful winger that served our club well and I wish him all the best at Leeds. But to say he gave his all in our jersey is not correct. Since the speculation arose regarding his future, there's been plenty of games where he's phoned it in.

So we have let an international leave, for free aswell, to sign somebody from kick n clap who is nearly 30 who might not even make the switch because lets face it sometimes they dont and thats either way code switches, i wonder if bomber put talc on to make it even dryer!!! SHAFTED!!!

He was always going "for free", its called being out of contract.

Yeah i get that, just we could have maybe got something for him if would have been this time last year its just a shame,
theres no money in the game as it is and we have let an england our only england player go for nothing leeds will be laughing at clubs like us! we got him at the level he is and they reap the benefits just annoying imo. like tomkins went whilst in his current contract to earn the club that gave him his chance in the sport he loves some decent dosh and he will return an even better player to them its smart business wigan have done there.

And perhaps his last year, seeing as it was at the end of a long contract, came relatively cheap for a player of his status so that was good business after all.

sorry i bow to your superior knowledge ( or better memory)

talk about getting the wrong end of the stick

the Tom I was referring to was our very own Tom Lineham!

ffs calm down!

i am calm what makes you think im not? i was just stating we have lost the 3rd best british winger in SL to sign a rah-rah winger so stop swearing at me.

Tom was given more than enough time to sign the contract on offer, he didn't, nobody else is to blame! cant blame him if he feels he can better himself at leeds and he probably will do! the club couldnt wait around when other areas of the squad needed improving!

leeds have the luxury of a great academy and can bring players through in numerous positions so may not need to spend in certain areas like we have too!

How have we lost the TB to sign a Union winger? TB wanted to leave he has, we've apparently replaced him with Tom Biggs. You're making out like we've shown Briscoe the door to bring Biggs in.

And Briscoe isn't the third best, he's second best imo behind Hall. He's better than Charnley.

I would rather have Charnley in our side than Briscoe. That's before he moved to Leeds as well.

Obviously opinions differ, but I honestly don't get how people would have Charnley over Briscoe?

Are you joking?