Now its official..........well as far as Salford are concerned anyway!
Extract from thier official site!


................Salford City Reds can confirm that Jordan Turner will leave the club at the end of the season to join Hull FC at the KC Stadium......

..........Salford City Reds can confirm that Jordan Turner will leave the club at the end of the season to join Hull FC at the KC Stadium

Jordan had been offered an improved three-year deal to stay at The Willows but turned down the deal in order to head to pastures new.

He has represented his country at the highest junior and Academy levels and if he continues to develop at the same rate he has the potential to become a great player. It is now up to the Clubs to put a value on that achievement and potential.

..............As Turner is under the age of 22 the two Clubs must now agree a compensation fee for the talented youngster who was voted the Club’s Academy Player of the Year (2006) and Young Player of the Year (2007). He also captained England at U18 level before making his Reds’ Super League debut in 2006.............

Well if myler is worth 200k how much is he worth? 50k??

What position are we looking at playing him in?

Didnt realise there would be a fee involved. I'm extremely pleased with this signing, if chosen to compete for the centres, it could be the first gifted ball handling centre we've had in sometime.

Tansey was 30k, so id say 20k tops

They will recoup it from the cash cow though

or from Rovers

Prop knowing Agar.

I've not seen too much of him but he has had some excellent reports and is widely regarded as a great prospect.

Good signing by Hull.

Great news

Its different in this case though, tansey was pretty much surplus at Leeds. Turner was important to salford, hence the 3 yr deal offer on improved terms!

If he was surplus, they would have released him

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Thought he was OOC though, so don't understand why there's a fee. Isn't it the same situation as Hodgson to Rovers, ie both OOC and under 22?

i believe the rule is if the club wish to retain them and they are still under 22, if the club has offered them a deal at least equal to what they were currently on and the player refuses it, then it goes to a compensation fee due to there investment in that players development

supposed reason for him leaving salford is down to lack of opportunity to play 13 though !!

Cheers.

that is spot on Hutch

I have heard that too.
Intresting times ahead.

Surely it has to be more complicated than that with the RFL.

Which i would imagine is his best position, but what about Washbrook? Salford offerered Turner a good deal, so he must be coming to us on a reasonable wage which would suggest he's been signed to play an important role.

The RFL get involved and thats when it gets complicated.

The clubs are supposed to try and broker a deal between themselves, well that is not going to happen is it with Salford wanting say £100K+ and FC offering £20 and a night out with Kaff. The RFL will swing which ever way it feels like it, no consistency, method or rules, just guess work. You never know the RFL have never been any Hull sides friend, but then again I don't think they like Salford that much either. I am just thankful it ain't Leeds, Saints, Bradford or the worst one Wigan we would be paying £200k and two nights out with Kaff.

Lee Jackson was an interesting one where we got robbed by the RFL when the ruled his fee down by thousands ............................

Just looked Turners 2009 stats on the engage super league website, here they are:


Date of birth: Mon 9th Jan 1989
Weight: 89kg
Height: 188cm
Age: 21


Appearances
15
Tries
2
Try assists
5
Goals
1
Drop Goals
0
Meters
1036
Carries
157
Tackles
229
Offloads
13
Attacking Kicks
15
Appearances
1
Runs from dummy half
25
Tackle Busts
9
Marker tackles
14
Clean Breaks
3
Forty twenty
0
Kicks in general play
3
Missed goals
0
Missed tackles
38
Errors
10
Penalties
4

Apparantly he likes to play stand off or 2nd row.

Maybe is if the halfback cover that has been talked about then? And if Rich Horne plays like he has this year again I would start him at 6 anyway.

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