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A new five year contract for Owen Farrell from Saracens.

Lost to the darkside forever

No surprise there.

Fawdoffshed wrote:I was talking to a top Wigan RL scout recently and he told me that Farrell was already a millionaire from his earnings in RU. You can't blame him for signing such a lucrative deal. What has RL to offer him apart from dubious happenings which seem to suggest that our great game is fixed?

Our game is in a right mess.

990k a year

OAMJSON wrote:

Fawdoffshed wrote:I was talking to a top Wigan RL scout recently and he told me that Farrell was already a millionaire from his earnings in RU. You can't blame him for signing such a lucrative deal. What has RL to offer him apart from dubious happenings which seem to suggest that our great game is fixed?

Our game is in a right mess.

990k a year

Enough said!!!

RU can only offer him this sort of money for two reasons.

1. It's promotion of the game Internationally
2. It's recognition that TV contracts pay the wages (via increased sponsorship due to TV exposure as well as the basic TV money).

RL has failed to grasp either nettle.

It has in the UK spent more time promoting the magic weekend than international RL. In Oz the State of Origin rules. It works OK in Oz but here RL is already seen as some second string virtually amateur sport. Take the CC away from Wembley as has been rumoured and you may as well confine RL to oblivion as a pro sport.

BriH wrote:

OAMJSON wrote:

Fawdoffshed wrote:I was talking to a top Wigan RL scout recently and he told me that Farrell was already a millionaire from his earnings in RU. You can't blame him for signing such a lucrative deal. What has RL to offer him apart from dubious happenings which seem to suggest that our great game is fixed?

Our game is in a right mess.

990k a year

Enough said!!!

this is what i beleive he was on ;last year may have gone up now