I do like a bit of loyalty, and people in sport seeing the job through. I think Burgess will stay with Barth until 2019.

Loyalty as in how Burgess asked to be released from the last year of his contract with Souths you mean? Or how he milked the whole Burgess clan nonsense for all it was worth then left the country?

From the point of view of the game it would be great for him to come back to RL. On a personal level I would be highly amused if he stays at Bath and ends up a journeyman forward.

Burgess was never going to come back, he is getting paid a fortune for doing very little.
It makes me laugh when people say he didn't go to Union for the money.

Burgess has no choice but to come back. Once the Rugger Bugger media decide to make some player the goat it's practically impossible to gain England selection.

Right now Burgess is toxic. Any incoming England coach will be incredibly wary of selecting him. It'll be hard enough turning this bunch into a functioning rugby team without having the press on your back, too.

Deluded/
£800 K PA will make him cope with any crap he gets from the media.

A few months at 6 and he will be in the England squad. Maybe not playing in the team but will be in the squad.

Just imagine he earns more than 50% of a WHOLE SL teams salary cap or
20% of an NRL cap.

Burgess didn't join Union to play domestic football. If he's consistently overlooked he will walk.



Yeah, sure.

For me its all about the occasion and union certainly does that and I can only imagine how a player feels out in the middle of a packed partisan Twickenham.

However, if that passion of the crowd turns into a concerted dislike of a player it must be a lonely place.

I think he will be back in League. Unless some agent somewhere stands to lose a packet on him.

Is Chris Caisley, Walker Morris Solicitors, Leeds (ex Bradford Bulls Chairman) still his agent?

Yesterday's man in their game. Probably the same in ours. A pity but no-one died.

As long as Burgess accepts that every time the team he plays for loses he will be the scap goat he will be fine.
He just have to look at his bank account to console himself