Exile Files: St Helens tell Bulldogs hands off, English club eyes ‘top quality’ NRL signing

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SAINTS MOVE TO SHUT DOWN PROP TALK

St Helens have rubbished reports they could let star props Luke Thompson and Alex Walmsley leave to join Canterbury before their contracts end.

A recent Daily Telegraph report said Bulldogs chief executive Andrew Hill had travelled to England to have a meeting with the duo who starred in the Red V’s Super League grand final win over Salford.

Walmsley had an opportunity to come to the NRL before he signed a long-term deal with the club, while Thompson has also been attracting attention from South Sydney in recent months.



St Helens CEO Mike Rush said the pair were going nowhere.

“There is nothing in it,” Rush told UK publication League Weekly.

“I don’t know where the Walmsley story has come from because he’s contracted for another three years, and Thommo is contracted to the end of next year.”
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...n/news-story/203fa2186eb3e8e3be008992008bb02a
 

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Clearly they don't know how contracts work in rugby league
 

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If Andrew Hill has wasted 2 trips to the UK when he could have picked up the phone to confirm a few things first he's an idiot.
 

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If you believe everything you read in the media from the likes of the Mole you are an idiot.
There must be some truth in a direct quote from the St Helens CEO and it would be quite easy for any journo or someone like Andrew Hill to verify if true (like you would think you would do before flying to England once, or on 2 occasions)

“I don’t know where the Walmsley story has come from because he’s contracted for another three years, and Thommo is contracted to the end of next year.”
 

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There must be some truth in a direct quote from the St Helens CEO and it would be quite easy for any journo or someone like Andrew Hill to verify if true (like you would think you would do before flying to England once, or on 2 occasions)

“I don’t know where the Walmsley story has come from because he’s contracted for another three years, and Thommo is contracted to the end of next year.”
I always thought Thompson was staying at St Helens for 2020 and all the negotiations are for 21?

Even a direct quote from a CEO doesn’t hold much substance he has nothing to gain giving details to the media.
 
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If you believe everything you read in the media from the likes of the Mole you are an idiot.
Yeah, he was an idiot when for 6 months he was saying Klemmer wanted to leave and requested out even when Klemmer and the club denied it and we believed that the club wouldn't lie to us LOL
 

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NSW is a society of do what you want and fuck everybody else, its the new way.
Welcome to NSW.
 

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Yeah, he was an idiot when for 6 months he was saying Klemmer wanted to leave and requested out even when Klemmer and the club denied it and we believed that the club wouldn't lie to us LOL
He gets way more wrong then he gets right. Believe him all you want.
 

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Don’t want too believe this at all. But would not surprise me.
 

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If Andrew Hill has wasted 2 trips to the UK when he could have picked up the phone to confirm a few things first he's an idiot.
You and Brady should’ve gone over. You could have done the meeting like when they are applying for jobs together on stepbrothers!
 

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You and Brady should’ve gone over. You could have done the meeting like when they are applying for jobs together on stepbrothers!
Why me? I understand that players aren't going to choose us over other clubs for the same amount of $. Also Thompson on contract so he'd be a 2021 signing. Haven't been the biggest fan of signing the other guy.
 

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You and Brady should’ve gone over. You could have done the meeting like when they are applying for jobs together on stepbrothers!
Hello there Miss Lady, where here to fuk shite up! lol
 

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Would a transfer fee count towards the salary cap?
 

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Would a transfer fee count towards the salary cap?
It wouldn't. It's just so the club losing the player gets something out of it. It's usually that or a player swap.
 

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Why me? I understand that players aren't going to choose us over other clubs for the same amount of $. Also Thompson on contract so he'd be a 2021 signing. Haven't been the biggest fan of signing the other guy.
The recruitment guns!
 
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