Well we might as well with the amount of ancient forwards we're going to have in the squad next year.

Rhinos tempt Barrie McDermott out of retirement?

It looks like after this great succesful period we going to have anotherb 1980s-90s

Ritchie Spedding? Now we have the cap space?

Lowes is going to be announced as Buderus' replacement. He meets the present recruiting criteria of has beens, at the expense of youth.

Best start looking for a new club now Liam .... The present CEO and coaching staff prefer to have youth grow ever more discontented and / or ship them off to Wakefield or Harlequins ...

To be fair, you're generally more discontent than the youth themselves.

How's the Hardaker For Prop campaign coming on?

So I take it you're happy with the current recruiting ( Kirke, Lleualai, Webb ... And the piece de la resistance, Snore ) ... ?

Depends what else we do. I think Moore's a decent (and very under-rated) player, and provided it's not as well as Griffin, and thus leaves room for Kyle Amor to come back, I'm not unhappy with it. Happy with Kylie and Webb, you can't have a whole team of youths and props are notoriously better with age and we have a very young back 5 as it is. Kirke I would not have re-signed but you can't win them all.

I reserve judgement on this year's recruitment until I've seen what happens with new centres and possibly hookers. So far so meh.

steve pitchford a great leeds player,just retired from knaresborough wmc and now living in scarborough allways has time to talk to anybody about his rugby days

Go on then, who should Leeds have targetted that other teams have already signed for 2012?

Talk me through your valuable insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the alternatives.

Don't just sit in the back seat complaining about how the bus is being driven - take your turn behind the steering wheel.

Who's rattled your cage ? Ask me nicely and I MIGHT do

( actually it's more a case of why sign Kirke when you have the superior and younger Ambler; Lleuali when you have the superior and younger Amor; Webb when you have the superior and younger BJB ...and finally effectively swap Llauititi out of the squad for the inferior - yet with no age advantage - Moore ? )

never heard of pitchford


Re old dogs and young pups

That would be good but ive seen on another post that we havent given any youngsters a debut in the first team since 2008 and with Mcshane and Smith banished to under 20s its like there going backwards under this coaching regime

Ignorance is bliss.

Steve 'the bionic barrell' Pitchford, Lance Todd trophy winner from the 1976/77 Challenge Cup Final.

At the time only the second Leeds player to have received the award.



I hope you don't believe everything you read on here. Some of it is garbage.

I'm fairly sure I remember that Singleton lad getting a debut since 2008..... that only took me about 5 seconds to come up with, nad I never see any games.

I therefore pronounce that statistic to be, in the words of Professor Yaffle, fiddlesticks and flapdoodle.