Confirmed today by the club.

Good news for all concerned. Brett needed a new challenge and the Championship probably gives him a few more years, and we get to free up some cap space for where it’s needed more.

Now let’s go get a good prop and good hooker over the line.

Great news!

The best move for both player and club, good luck to Brett, he’s been hammered on these forums but I do think he put the effort in.

Don’t recall seeing much effort during first 4-5 months of last season.

Thank God we've got rid of the waster.

Surely there will be some movement how many players have left now?

I'm sad that he didn't work out with us. Never lived up to expectations. In his first season I think he was one of the better players at the beginning, but totally misused.
The next couple of seasons I don't think we ever had him fit enough.

Last season he was definitely mixed. Overall not a great signing, but not as bad a player as you'd think reading comments on here. I wouldn't have been against a new deal, on reduced terms, but if we are building to the future it's probably the right call.

Maybe it's just me but I do find comments like this a bit distasteful. Yes he hasn't lived up to his potential and hasn't overall been a great signing for us but I just find calling players 'wasters' a bit much, he played most of last season with a knee injury which he has just had surgery on, he seems to be well respected by the coaching staff and playing group, a fan on a forum calling him a waster just seems a bit off to me.

After the last two seasons a bit of a clear out was needed

The biggest issue with Ferres was that he never lived up to the expectations arising from his form at Huddersfield that led him to becoming an international quality player. We rarely saw any aggressive wide-running and off-loading at Leeds - was this about coaching, or the player suffering too many injuries or a simple decline in form, or something else?

Unfortunately a lot of the positive things he brought to the team on the field were offset by his tendency to be penalised in critical moments of games.

It's probably the right decision to let him go with the number of better back-rowers in the team.

What we signed was not what we got.

That being harshly said, he's been dogged by injuries, playing in a poor, rudderless team and y'know... things just haven't worked out. He needs a new challenge and we need a clear out and rebuild.

Things happen.

Sometimes you have to let experienced players go to give youngsters an opportunity - that is 3 in him, JJB and Ablett.

Can count on one hand the number of decent games he had for us.
Good to see the clear out continue now to add some quality.

Think best move for all, but let’s not be disrespectful. Just didn’t work out at all. Injuries and bad timing robbed of us of a very good RL player.

Interesting to hear his Radio Leeds interview that it sounds like he's going part time. Said it's about the work life balance and it's got more difficult for him to be a parent to his kids with the aches and pains over the last few years. Suppose that puts into perspective some of the moaning that goes on about players as others have mentioned in this thread.

Says the club wanted to keep him but he couldn't wait around forever for an answer.

A signing that failed. Renewing his contract would have been an enormous mistake and was surely never a possibility notwithstanding any media spin.

A waste of talent thanks to his arrogance.

Good luck to him. There needs to be players in though.

Not half. We look 3 short imo

Don’t think Ferres leaving will change anything. No point in signing Mellor if we don’t intend to play him, and we have plenty of backrowers.

Said this before but I would rather keep our powder dry than spend up just for the sake of it, on players who aren’t high enough quality. We lack star dust not squad players.

Hard call to make for the club though because if the team doesn’t go better this year AND they haven’t spent up to cap, they’ll get roasted again.

Back to Brett; terrible signing in retrospect but at the time seemed to make sense. Injuries and form have ruined what should have been much better. Maybe he’d have had more sympathy on here if he’d managed his conditioning better at times but I’m sure he tried to make a success of it.

Players don’t really deserve the stick they get.

I appreciate what You're saying but the club have a duty to the fans to ensure the squad is as good as it can be each year. As it stands we are miles short of top 5 and that is simply unacceptable for a Leeds team. I'm not saying we have a Devine right to win something every season but Leeds should be top 5 as a minimum and the standard should be set sky high.

I wouldnt say were miles off top 5 were in transition we need to get these kids through for long term gain but i agree we badly need a hooker, prop and winger before the start of the season.

I dont want the slightest hint of relegation and I know it's a very thin dividing line challenging for top 5 and in a relegation scrap . Agar has a job on his hands here

absolutely it is a tightrope, and you can’t afford to be complacent and “aim” for mid table.

We have had a track record of tying ourselves up in knots by signing players who just aren’t good enough - it has been a massive effort to try to untangle it.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t sign anyone else, I’m saying we should only sign players who you could imagine winning a title with Leeds. Other than that, give the youth an opportunity where we can.

I’m not excited by any of the names we’ve been linked with so far. I am however pleased we’ve shed quite a few players who, with respect to them, were holding us back.

I’ve heard Leeds officials refer to this belief that players we sign from other clubs will improve in “our environment”. I think this has been part of the complacency, that we can stick Championship players into our world and expect to transform them (on the cheap).

Now we don’t have a single player in the England/GB team.