I think St Helens would wnat more than 11k Matt

notice I said 'put in the pot' mick. and I wasnt referring to pryce specifically anyway. the club will have a sum of money available to pay transfer fees and any extra funds they unexpectedly receive could be added to that sum. whilst 11k might not pay all off a transfer fee it could be enough to top the pot up if it was falling a little short.

Wakefield supporters saying in Obst thread that he ins't joining us.







I really hope it's not Raynor, at 32 he's too much of a risk.

He's playing in Australia for Belrose Eagles in the Manly comp. He's a mate of mine, I went over recently and went to the third state of origin match with him, followed by an almighty pi**up!!

Totally agree. Not to mention the negligible wage he will have been on. Sure, there will be a backline pecking order, but then in his cameos, as you elude to, he pushed through pretty well.



A poor decision.

but one that was taken out of our hands. we offered him a significantly improved deal at a level we thought he was worth. Hudds offered more. should we pay him more than we think he's worth just to retain him?. Exactly same situation reardon put us in when he went to wire and generally we were proved right in our valuation on that one.

Disappointing this one, no real way to positive spin it either. Sure the club prioritise and offer contracts according to our judgement of the players potential, and if the lad can get more elsewhere at a, recently, more successful club then fair play to him..... but I think its a real shame and he'll make the grade like Atkins has.

Possibly. And of course few are privvy to the details of the offer. As a guestimate, I wouldn't think the Giants offer was significantly more, but then who knows.



Either way, how hard the club tried to retain his services would be interesting.



We've all seen far too many quality players leave the club in recent times. Not always the right ones.

Thought he looked a decent prospect so I am disappointed he has gone to the Giants. Solid defender and looked to offer more than Crookes but we can only offer what we think he is worth to us.

From what's been stated, it seems to me that the Giants offered over the odds for him. Fair play to him to follow the money. It's a short career and you can never know just how short that career will be.

The Bulls offered him what they thought he was worth, Hudds offered over the odds. So he went. I think its a shame but at the end of the day, we can't keep everyone and we can't all offer Warrington/Huddersfield type wages.

I think good on the club for sticking to the valuation. He didn't want to play for us so let him go.

Its really difficult to assess the worth of a young player when an offer comes in, I think its about the timing of where the club sees him in their future structure.

Perhaps thats why we let Atkins go when we had such great centres available and why Leeds let Carvell go for a similar reason.

It is problamatical to project a young players further improvement and make a salary offer on that. You can only make an offer on the information provided by the coaches and if the player goes on to greater things then he has exceeded his expectations.

For example Jason Robinson was rejected by Leeds.