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That was a complete waste of time...But uhh...Thanks? I guess?
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That was a complete waste of time...But uhh...Thanks? I guess?
Because that would be a productive and very logical signing.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...rn-with-demand-for-200000-20101207-18od1.htmlBulls hold up Ox's return with demand for $200,000
Brad Walter
December 8, 2010
Making a break ... Bradford Bulls playmaker Matt Orford is keen to return to Australia and the NRL. Photo: Getty Images
DEMANDS for a transfer fee of up to $200,000 from Bradford are understood to be holding up former Manly captain Matt Orford's move to Canberra next season.
Speculation suggesting Orford and the Raiders had agreed on a deal prompted TAB Sportsbet to issue a press release on the club's premiership odds yesterday, but Canberra insisted the move had not been finalised and the agency retracted the release. While the Bulls announced in October that Orford's request for a release from the remaining two years of his contract would be granted, the English Super League club wants compensation for the loss of their chief playmaker and are seeking up to £125,000 ($198,442).
The Herald has been told Bradford owe Orford a similar amount but he is not prepared to forfeit that sort of money and the Raiders do not want to pay it, leaving him in limbo. Parramatta, who had also been interested in Orford, have pulled out of negotiations and are concentrating on finding a centre to replace Timana Tahu.
New Eels coach Stephen Kearney is understood to have contacted Greg Inglis, whom he knows well from their time in Melbourne, but the star centre hopes to honour a deal with Souths :roll: once NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert hands down his assessment of the three-year contract.
A bid for former Storm and Australian centre Matt King has also failed, with Warrington refusing to release him from the final year of his deal.
Tahu, who had asked to take leave until February to deal with personal issues, will be formally released from the contract he agreed to several weeks ago but Parramatta chief executive Paul Osborne would not close the door completely on the NSW representative playing for the club again. ''He'll sever ties with us and if he wants to sit down and talk to us in February it would be a completely different scenario,'' Osborne said. ''We're have already started looking elsewhere.''
Only if he wins us games Pete, if we lose it will be all his fault.:sarcasm:
