James Lowes was a shocking decision!!

Karl Pratt was a strange one. Bags of talent awful attitude, plus never settled in one position.

I'm not sure that it was Leeds' decision to make. From memory, wasn't it all his doing? I recall him being messed about though and being moved to second row a lot.

Paul Medley went to Halifax first iirc in exchange for Paul Dixon

A deal which Leeds got infinitely the better value out of IMO.

I can't help thinking mcshane has been given duff advice, where is his agent in all this.As much as he feels frustrated imo justifiably so you don't ask to leave a club without another one to go to unless your being told to

He should probably have been a centre in the end. Played a lot on the wing, dabbled at 6. Would have made a good centre.

But I suspect (only suspect, I don't know) that a lack of application might have hampered him whatever position he'd targeted. Good player when his head was in the right place though.

I think the crime was in having one of the outstanding British #9s of his generation and fiddling about with him in the 2nd row and not being enthusiastic enough about retaining his services.

Seem to recall him playing at 7 the few times I saw him play for Hunslet? Might have made that up though. I were but a bairn.

Your quite right, James - as he was known as at that time - played 7 for Hunslet. The position he played in against us in a Yorkshire Cup game, during which he was outstanding which led to us signing him.

Aye, I remember that one now that you mention it.

We've had this debate about whether it was a mistake to "let Lowes go" before. Lowes was not the outstanding hooker he became whilst at Leeds. He was pretty good, but not as good as he went on to become at Bradford.

He also left during the period Leeds nearly went under. At about the same time we lost the likes of Tait, Schofield, Innes and Howard, having slightly earlier lost Hanley, Eyres and a few others.

I'd suggest the money issues affecting the club were at least as much to do with Lowes moving as anything else. Unless you believe that the club seriously believed that the likes of Carl Hall, Nathan Picchi and the Gibbons twins were suitable replacements for those that left/were leaving?