He’s only been commuting from the kitchen to the garden for the last six weeks!

Heard about the Josh Jones wanting to leave a couple of months ago from the Son of a former sponsor to Hull who is still in contact with AP who is actually quite open to his close contacts regarding the going ons within the club. Wants a big fee for his release otherwise it’s a no go.

Would any of the top teams have cap space?

Depends on how much Pearson/club needs the money. Our owner has been very vocal on how tough these times are, if he can get a high earner off the books (especially one who doesn't want to be here) then he will. Don't think it needs to be a huge fee.

To be honest it's a bit pathetic that he can't move to East Yorkshire or even West Yorkshire. We have overseas players moving their families 12,000 miles.

Can imagine that a sizeable transfer fee would be music to the (and any...) club's ears at the moment

Plus losing the liability of one of your biggest earners

So, months of negotiations to join, was moving to the area (or has moved), we've only played a handfull of matches since he joined.

All seems a little odd......

Can't beat a good rumour. Properly all bul

Too much press to be made up, be real shame, but if wants to go then id let him for the right fee.

If a deal can be agreed I'd let him go now and let someone pay his wages. I'd be looking at around 150k, I'd be tempted with 100k plus Livett.

Hasn’t he signed full time with the Dobbins or is it still a loan deal?

This may have surfaced a few months ago when some players apparently asked to leave because of the dire coaching? Maybe it is sorted and it’s old news?

Loan

oh well maybe not bul, shame that as i think hes a top player,

Difficult to tackle and can offload,the only thing he lacks is pace.
World class if he had the pace for a real running second row

I thought that was the overseas players. I could easily be wrong in that though.

Scott Taylor

still travelled to salford didnt he? got on with the job until he was free to join fc

So what? That doesn't invalidate my point. Anyway Taylor played out his two year contract for you.

have you ever known NSW to have a point?

NSW last seen scuttling off into the undergrowth.

Just sad I think, he would have been awesome in a normal season and with effective coaching, BUT we don't have either,

Can see the logic in letting him go, but this will weaken us & strengthen one of the true BIG clubs.

Just really hope this will be the end of it, would be gutted if other big names 'allowed' to walk. We will be back to where we were but with added issues of the flaming virus, no coach & many top players OOC. Really feel for AP as circumstances conspiring spectacularly against him, fingers crossed he can manoeuvre a way forward where the undoubted momentum created doesn't disappear.

Fact is many of us who have been around all this a long time sort of think that this sort of thing doesn't usually happen unless said player has got somewhere else to go and so I think it will be with jones. In short who would be surprised if he has been tapped up and if he has then we want a big transfer fee. However the fact Clubs are in a financial position to be able to entice players away does for me raise another issue.

For me, although you can't blame players looking to their futures if their contracts are running out, I think that the RL should have put an embargo on any players moving or signing new contracts and frozen the whole situation whilst players are under furlough and until the future of the game and the length of this season was sorted. At present there are a lot of clubs like our own who are struggling to keep going day to day and who therefore daren't commit to new contracts and bring in new players, because of their uncertain financial futures. However there are a few Clubs whose beniffactors are so well off they will feel they know they will survive whatever and can move on such things with some certainty but in doing so they are doing it at the expense of other those Clubs in the competition. That hardly seems fair to me.

Now Mr Wilf, you raise another huge question, what are the rules of furlough exactly? IF Mr Jones works for FC then he cannot move on now, otherwise he is "voluntarily relinquishing a paid, furloughed position of employment", IF his agent gets paid then, it is to be hoped, he hasn't furloughed himself previously. Likewise, who from Warrington (for sake of argument.) has signed him, on what basis? Can an entity, with furloughed employees and in receipt of grant loans also pay fees and renumeration to a furloughed individual?

See your point but it wont make any difference to Jones moving on.
Warrington seems to be the club he will go to.
Maybe pave the way for BMM to make an early return to Australia.
Whatever happens we should get a six figure fee,

I just wish we could get a coach into the club.