Smith was at the Jungle last week v Catalans watching Olpherts, he’d be a useful signing IMO. Surprised to see transfer news on Walker, thought he would feature regularly under the new coach with his undoubted running game.

How would signing Derrell Olpherts help Liam Tindall and Levi Edwards to develop?

Always depends on what you have coming through, doesn't it?Some of the names I've seen put forward as internal alternatives fall short in my opinion. Tindall, despite his strength and speed, has some fundamental weaknesses of a coach killing nature; Edwards and Simpson are both centres and also very young. Loan spells in the championship would be better for them. Other than that you are delving straight into the academy. As long as he doesn't get in the way of priority recruitment in the pack I'm OK with it.

That's probably right AC. It seems that Smith has made his mind up re players with specific flaws. He may give Tindall some time but Smith seems to value outside backs that don't make too many defensive errors. If Fusitu'a leaves Olpherts would be a downgrade, but then it would be up to Tindall to push past him anyway.

Where's the talk of Fusitua leaving come from? - he seems to be starting to look settled and happy to me?

Olphorts isn't a headline signing for sure but, he's actually;y gone under the radar a bit this year and his stats look impressive, I'm trusting Smith to pick the right players that he wants for the team

Isn't Olpherts first choice at Cas? It would seem odd for him to leave them to be a back up winger at Leeds.

Agree.

Not sure why but I get the feeling that Leeds are planning something big for the end of this week, they are looking at clearing around 100k worth of cap space.

If Dywer suddenly departs I'll start to get excited. Not sure we've quite got the room to do anything spectacular at the moment. But I hope you are right.

How many walkers, dwyers, Mellors and broadbents does is take to get a luke Thompson.

Roughly a Kyle Amor and a Josh Simm.