Here is a list of Out of Contract NRL Hookers:-

Chris Adams
Adam Clydsdale
Krys Freeman
Jayden Hodges
Martin Kennedy
Kierran Moseley
Ryan Simpkins
Matt Srama

Unsure if anyone is available from the ESL but I doubt it.

Clydsdale is the only one of those lot i have heard of. He is steady but not in the class of segeyaro.

I suppose at this stage though beggars can't be choosers.

Hopefully if we bring someone in like the above they offer more than falloon did.

That's my fear too. Just because they play(ed) in the NRL, doesn't mean they are hot.

Out of the Hookers we might have access to in the British Game, I'd be looking at Shaun Lunt or Liam Hood to tide us over.

Not sure what company you're looking at but it's not Leeds CF&A Ltd which hasn't made a loss for several years and has net assets of £17m+

No it didn't, it took about 3. We lost a couple of years momentum under dean lance, but were the real deal under Murray,if Murray had stayed another 3-4 years we would have had a couple of championships under him.

I think the criticism towards GH over Segeyaro is a tad harsh. He gave him time to think things over and the player made the decision to sign the contract. If GH had let him leave after his short stint last season without making any attempt to sign the player there would have been an outcry on here about lacking ambition etc. I think the only option now is to try and hold out for a fee while looking elsewhere, but we are certainly in need of a hooker if he doesn't return.
The criticism over the southstand ticket situation is a different matter. I think the club must have known for a good while this was unlikely to happen any time soon.

You can't prove that. If anything Leeds were showing signs of going stale at the end of Murray's last season. We looked far from championship material under Lance, and in Powell's first year(s) in charge.

the great era we had that started 03/04 was with the lads that all came through pretty much together. You had Sinfield,JJB,Carvell,Calderwood,Diskin etc..all in the 97/98/99 academy set up then Burrow/McGuire/Bailey/Walker etc.. around 2000 so the seeds were sown with quality of recruitment around the advent of SL and Dean Bells time with us leading into Murray. Point is it does take a fair few years to build things like this from within, it doesn't happen overnight.

Main question has to be why we aren't finding groups of lads with the ability of those players anymore.

Also got to take into consideration the strength of the other teams around those 2/3 years. Bradford were at their peak, Saints and Wigan so strong too. To pull off a championship let alone a couple in that period between Murray leaving and the 2004 success would've been very tough regardless of coach.

Yep, those were three strong teams.

Imo, the 2003 Leeds team would have done the treble in style was it around last season, yet ended with nothing.

Because we don't have the same quality coaching set up, development, or focus on it. Haven't done for last five years.