A number of big transfer stories have been announced by Leeds Rhinos, Wigan Warriors, Warrington Wolves, Hull KR and Hull FC.
Hull KR announced the immediate signing of Brad Schneider to ease their injury woes at this point of the season.
Warrington Wolves have drafted Lachlan Fitzgibbon for next year beating Leeds Rhinos to his signature who instead signed Mickael Goudemand as they lose Sam Walters to Wigan Warriors who will be joined by his former teammate and former Huddersfield Giants star Kruise Leeming.
But some of the interesting news has come from Hull FC with Josh Griffin’s leaving the club for Wakefield Trinity.
It came as part of mutual release from Hull FC however Paul Cooke has argued it wasn’t mutual.
“I’m not so sure it’s mutual. If you’d have asked Josh a month ago before the St Helens ban and the sending off he would have been happy be at the club and want to be at the club and want to be at the club beyond his current contract running out at the end of this season,” he said on BBC Radio Humberside.
“I think he’s really found a home in Hull, I know off the field he’s looking into the fire service I believe for after rugby league so he’s planning his life accordingly.
“I just think when something like this has happened and it’s affected the club in such a big way, rightly or wrongly whether you believe a version of events from Chris Kendall or the ones from Josh Griffin, you’re just unable to say those things to an official.
“I don’t think it would have been well received by Tony Smith. He wouldn’t have been pleased with the sending off, he wouldn’t have been pleased with the result at the end of that game.”
He elaborated on the severity of the offence:
“I likened it to when I was in changing rooms, and senior players in the changing rooms there, there would have been a world war if that would have happened in a changing room that I was a part of.
“A senior player certainly would have said something. It may well have got physical because it often did with thing like that in my career where players end up throwing punches at each other.
“It is that serious an offence and it was that serious an offence for Tony Smith and the senior players in the group there’s no question.”
