There is a parachute payment made to any team relegated normally from super league. The difference in funding between the team going up and the one coming down is 1 million pounds.......that's where they got the name for it.

He's good entertainment value though. If we wanted exposure like the WWE, he is the heel.

Didnt Les Boyd get 2 huge bans?

Different era I accept

Yep, including 18 months for deliberately breaking an opponent's jaw, if I remember correctly. At which point he came over here and finished his career without any trouble. Oddly, he was a very quiet and polite bloke to talk to off the pitch.

Boyd smashed Daryl Brohman's jaw and ended his career with a premeditated elbow. Got 12 months, wasn't back long and then picked up a 15 month suspension for eye-gouging.

At the time Jim Comans was on a purge to clean up the game in Australia, and Boyd gave him the perfect opportunity to put down a marker. If you watch some of the NSWRL stuff from the pre-Comans period, it was like Mad Max. Knees and elbows flying in everywhere, players being king hit and taken out off the ball.

Proper rugby back in those days ....