The Sydney press is starting to suggest his return is getting more likely: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/sout ... klpqp.html Still seems speculation though.

The Sydney press is starting to suggest his return is getting more likely: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/sout ... klpqp.html Still seems speculation though.

If he's spotted in the crowd or on the big screen at the KC Stadium on Sunday, I hope the whole ground gives him a few rousing choruses of "There's only one Sam Burgess..."

Perhaps not so "deluded" after all.

Burgess knows he's a dead man walking in Union now that the Rugger Buggers have all but assassinated his character. It'll take months - perhaps years for the damage to be undone sufficiently for him to challenge perceived wisdom and regain a spot in the England starting XV.

Sure, the money is good. But good enough to make up for the crushing disappointment of missing out on the very tournament that had attracted him to the sport in the first place? Not to mention his current status of persona non-grata.

Agree. He will be back most likely.

What's the latest? RL folk seem convinced he's coming back to RL, UK press suggesting he's staying in Union. Suppose all will start to become clearer tomorrow.

His stance of staying quiet would suggest to me that he wants to go. If Mike Ford's version of events were true and Burgess had been telling him how much he is looking forward to returning to Bath then I think Burgess would've could out and echoed that view.

He might well stay in RU but it'll only be because a transfer fee couldn't be agreed upon, not because he wants to stay.

I think he'll stay in RU, but the "UK press" would have no idea how big the NRL is in Sydney, so probably find it impossible to believe that any player could even consider leaving RU for RL.

The idea that as professional journalists they'd be so wilfully ill-informed is depressing because it's probably true.

He's staying in RU, in fact it's more damaging to him for him to leave now

I'd actually say the UK media are leaning more towards him going. As well as the Nationals, even now the local Bath paper which previously thought he'd returned are now saying it looks likely he'll leave. They even say he reportedly told the England RL players last week after the France game that "he's played his last game of Union"