Paid him off in full ?? Probably the equivalent of what the club fined him lol

Surely we are bringing in a new arrival, that's two first team players gone in Evans and Griffin, and I doubt we'll have paid them full pay to go

Does seem strange to pay him off rather than just let his contract run out unless either someone is coming in or we weren’t able to play Staveley due to restrictions on the live cap? Though you’d think Evans going snd not being replaced would take care of anything like that.

Posssibly so and perhaps Wakey have paid a fee for him, as they appear to have some new money coming into the club.

Might be some bad feeling or awkwardness if a contract offer was withdrawn. Griffin might feel that his integrity has been impugned by Hull and/or Hull might regret backing him if he didn’t come across as credible in the disciplinary hearing.

I doubt we offered more than a year, so can't blame him for getting two years.

Only himself to blame . Shame cos he's been one of the clubs better players this season .

I get the impression TS isn’t one to make a decision like this on just one incident, especially when we’re already light on numbers.

He sees these players day in, day out, and would have made the decision based on that.

Hopefully Staveley gets a shot now.

Anyone got any idea if him joining Wakey affects the end of his ban? It would be interesting if he was clear to play against us.

His ban will stay the same if he leaves. Same as when Evans joined us he was still serving a ban from his time in NRL.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant does the scheduling of Wakey’s games, not the amount of games, make a difference.

Has anyone got anything to corroborate this story?

Well Cam Scott has wished him well on Instagram, so seems its imminent

No, he can use Wakefield's reserve fixture on the Cup semi final weekend as he would have done for us. He'll miss the SL games against Huddersfield, then the reserves game and finish his ban by missing their SL games against Warrington and us. His first game should be against Cas.

Got to credit Wakey, they're not going down without a fight, Fifita's return has had such an impressive impact. Griffin will be a good coup for them, that game vs Cas will be a hell of a game to make a debut in.

Thanks for that. I really wasn’t sure.

There have been a string of issues on and off the field affecting his colleagues and our results as a team, culminating in him possibly single handedly seeing us bow out of the cup, this coach doesn't mess around and has set an example in that if your 100% for your team and your buddies in it, then he gives his full backing, if you start playing silly buggers and putting self first your out! Connor is another point of fact he made it clear to Smith that Hull FC were a one man team (which under Hodgson we probably where) and he was that man, but Smith didn't fight him leaving but rather showed him the door and look who we employed with the money he saved us! For me after wintering and summering so many assistant coaches 'made good' whoever comes and goes player wise at my club the one person we need to retain is TS.

Firstly, thanks to Josh for his time at the club. He’ll forever be one of our Wembley winners and I wish him well for the future.

He’d certainly hit some great form this season, finally overcoming a terrible injury.

However, prior to that run of form there had been doubts about renewing his contract. His impact in the Second Row was potentially worth a one year extension given his age/salary.

However, regardless of how we all feel on how Kendall handled the incident, Griff’s mouth saw him land 1/4 season ban and potentially cost us £10,000’s in Cup revenue if we’d gone on to beat Saints. He was warned in the cup win at Cas and that reaction is no use to a Club.

I think this release decision helps set a standard that others are beginning to align to. We’ve all bemoaned the attitude of the players within the Club since McRae first highlighted the issue years ago. Tony appears to be improving all aspects of how we play and approach and it’s nice that Adam and the fans are prepared to back his decisions.

The club are only allowed to fine him 2 weeks wages which i hope they did.
He hasnt been paid off in full its an agreement between Griffin and the club

Reading the article its hard to know whether it's the club that have paid him off or its Griffin himself that's asked to be released early to sign a 2 year deal.

Still nothing official from either club, despite some good luck messages from the players on social media

Even if you ignore the cup incident I doubt we would have given him the length of deal Wakey have.

The incident has probably sped up the process and sees him leave now.

Club have now confirmed

Agree above.
Wakey wanted griffin for this season and griffin wanted to go and FC didn’t want him.
Then it wouldn’t make sense for the club to pay off his contract.
That’s what I was inferring on my initial post

I still hope we get more of an explanation off Smith to why he has been released now.