Thank, despite what other may think I am just putting forward an alternative view. Alot of what you say makes sense, but I don't think it as as clean cut as others think - why else would we agree to enter settlement talks. As the party who took the case, it was entirely up to us to agree to enter negotiations or say nope we are confident in our case and will go to court to prove us and RL are the aggrieved party.viva brad wrote:Andymac. We are all entitled to our opinions and ask questions and at times to play devils advocate just to make people think about another view point. You are quite right either party could have called for negotiation and i have heard that a judge can also suggest that the parties start negotiation purely on the basis that one of the parties has a very strong case and it would be foolish for the other party to peruse the case through the courts as they will lose and end up with a huge legal bill.
However various legal publications have stated the strength of Castlefords case so it would be fair to assume that once the barristers have sat down in the pre trial meeting and examined the points of the case that an out of court settlement would be the best course of action. Also just a little bit of food for thought RU is by far a richer sport than ours and if the legal advice was cas don't have a leg to stand on would Sale's legal team get round the table and negotiate and out of court settlement, probably not they have the backing to take it all the way to clear their name.
As I say this is a forum where we are all entitled to challenge a way of thinking providing we do it in the right way and respect the opinions of other
As you say, on the eve of the hearing the judge may have looked at it and told someone/both to save themselves money and go make an agreement as potentially neither side would get what they want ( is us want £500k, SS believe they owe nothing) and as many predicted within the next couple of months both will agree a figure somewhere in between.
Which leads me back to my point, if we can get the £300k that SS allegedly offered, we should take it and be done with it. The reality is that DS is not going to come back to RL anytime soon so the worst option would be if we win the case, SS had to pay 3 months of his £50k salary and we ended up having him back!