He's better than baby Briers!!

Would we have had to get rid of players to fit Gleeson in under the cap given that Eastwood may be here next year (I think this deal was done before Smith confirmed he was leaving for Wasps)

I can imagine the outcry from some quarters if Leeds had bust the bank to sign Martin Gleeson - "why are we signing a player at the end of his career who is going to get in the way of Watkins/Gibson/Ratu/Broughton?"

Your second two sentences are what is more relevant.

Gleeson is irrelevant. He wasn't what we needed.

The club themseleves have identified that the forwards were needed, hence the signing of Eastwood. Eastwood did not materialize so we were light, meaning that players of the calibre of Kirke are now established starters. The club have realized this problem and signed 2 more forwards, one of which they have signed immediately.

The issue is, could they have done something about it earlier? Players do not have to be made publically available to be available. And has 2010 recruitment been damaged because of the Eastwood affair?

So do you know that nothings happening/happened behind the scenes then???????
You know we went after pritchard,soliola and recently millard i'd say that they have tried to do the deals but 1 reason or another they haven't come off.
As for the 2010 recruitment only time will tell how/if that's been disrupted.

Quite so. Pitts wasn't available publically but it didn't stop Leeds making an approach to Wakefield and for the signing to follow shortly after.