If you love Australia so much why dont you f off and live there? Im sure due to your latest stats, that James Graham is looking for a flat mate to rub suncream on him and im quite sure he would love some one like you to do it for him. You make me laugh if you hate English RL and inparticular Leeds so much WTF are you doing wasting your time on here when you could be cracking one off to the NRL??

The contract for JP could be different to the contract for JJB simply down to their age and effectiveness. Whilst both players started their top grade careers late (JP down to the age he started playing, and JJB down to injury problems at the start of his career) JP is much older and appears to be sliding down the hill much faster than JJB.

I think the announcement was down to missing Ellis tbh, if we had got Ellis then I doubt this would have been announced so early. I suspect GH thought we needed some positive news and released this news about the England Captain to try to but a better spin on a "bad news day".

In terms of what I think to the deal, 2 years is a long time in sport, and I doubt that JP will be in a position to play most weeks in his second year, assuming it is in fact a 2 year playing contract. I would have given 1 year, and then reviewed again after that. I agree with you that he looks very pedestrian at the moment.

One thing that is becoming clear is we need to bring Amor back from Wakey to cover the loss of Leuluai and the workload we are losing with Peacock in his current state.

Careful, that's akin to heresy on here.

You could have put a traffic cone in that Leeds defensive line at times last night and it would have been more effective than either of the pensioner props.

Thankfully one's off already at the end of the season. Sadly, Hetherington has decided to balance it out by extending the contract of the other.

It would be terrible for the game in this country, we would have lost all our best players.
You mean centres like Brett Delany who is probably the 4th best centre at Leeds behind two kids and a back rower? Centres like Matt King who got shunted out on the wing for a player who cant even get in the elite training side in Ryan Atkins? Or Clinton Toopi? There isnt 4-8 players better than the best English players. There are some very good British players, and some very very good Australians, but there are also a fair few who are pretty damn average.

It is a matter of conjecture that Luke, Farah or Ennis are better than Roby not fact. Wayne Bennett has said that Buderus is the equal of Ennis, considering it is accepted by even you that Roby is a better player than Buderus, so it follows, unless you disagree with Wayne Bennett that Roby is better than Ennis.

Bloody hell, we are going back to freddie fittler and Laurie Daley? Brad Fittler is 40 years old, how old do you think he was when the Aussies started bringing him through, Laurie Daley is 42, and he retired 13 years ago. Australia havent produced a Lockyer since Lockyer because he was such an outstanding player. lets not beat ourselves up that we arent producing once in a generation players. Even the best do it rarely.

Peacock seems a shadow of himself this year on previous years. Admittedly only seen him twice this year on sky.

But good luck to him all the same.

Lets face it JP is getting older, and like everyone else is getting slower. This will obviously have an effect on his performances and despite giving his best every week (and thats no a wind up) he is nowhere near as effective as he once was. I think this will be his last season as a player and he will move to the coaching staff, where he will have lots to offer.