Every player's situation will be different every single time, in my opinion though the little done over the last 10 years with regards the salary cap and things like that to keep the best talent around in SL make it a no brainer for the likes of the names mentioned above to go to AUS or RU. It's always going to be enticing but I think my frustration lies with the fact it doesn't appear that we are doing the best we can to keep these players from going to the NRL or RU. How financially sustainable it would be to try I do not know the ins and outs of and most likely is what prevents SL and the RFL from sanctioning it.
Agree on hopefully he'll be back. There were rumours he and KC didn't get on but they have both spoken positively of each other in the interviews that have gone round and hopefully both he'll return a better player and we wont miss him to much in the mean time.