Exactly & he's only played 2 games this far for HKR.

He hardly played last season.
His record before that was good for a prop. If we are getting rid of players for missing months at a time Watkins and Ward would be out too.
Despite your tongue in cheek comment that HKR had lost at Warrington with the Leeds players, Garbutts stats were great again. Almost double the metres our props managed at Warrington.

2 more than Crosby has managed this season

How is that relevant?
Leeds management had their reasons for getting rid perhaps we will find out one day,Hardaker was brilliant for a time at Cas.should we have kept him?

Hardakers problems are well documented, and not down to missing a season due to injury, so not sure how that is relevant at all.
Posters on here are suggesting Garbutt was shown the door because of the games he missed last season.
Indeed Sinfield did make a comment last season about too much salary cap sat in the stand injured. The point about Crosby is that although it is early on in the season, to say that Garbutt has only played twice, while one of the players signed to play in his position is out injured himself and is yet to feature. I think Crosby will be a decent signing btw.

There’s clearly more to it than just missing a few games because of injury. You can tell from the comments from both Garbutt and Leeds that something had occurred to annoy both sides.

But with injury surely it's not just the games he has already missed, but the long term prognosis on those injuries and how his body in general will stand up to such a demanding position, and our medical team would have taken a view on this. He may have started well at HKR but if the long term view was that his body wouldn't stand up to it then the right decision had to be to let him go.

I think this is right, the medical and conditioning staff at the club have a very good idea of where each player is at. The club will also factor in general attitude, how the player trains, etc.
Without being inside the camp it's very hard to know.
No player is going to want to believe their body is knackered if their livelihood depends on it, so a difference of opinion is natural.

Two tries and mom today

Good for him, some people really need to let it go, he’s not a Rhinos player anymore

Highlighting the sheer stupidity of letting our best prop go at a time we were, and still remain, weak of props is still very worthy of discussion.

3 decent games doesnt highlight zip we've moved on & the rebuild continues.

Indeed. He's on fire at the moment for KR and its worthy of discussion. I think salary cap and overseas player limits have played a part in letting him go as well as his injury record but it looks at present like a mistake but let's judge at season end

there are a handful of players in my time that in my opinion letting go was a massive mistake. Paul medley, Bobbie Goulding, Roy Powell (replacing him with mick Worrall) and Jimmy lowes probably the worst of all.
Mitch Garbut is not one of them and i dont think he will prove to be either. he may have a stormer and win man of match when he plays us, see Rob Roberts after he went to Hull, see Brendan Hill every time he played Leeds for about 2 years before disappearing into the lower divisions. we could have a thread about players we have let go and the mixed fortunes, but we have let player go much better than garbutt with little regrets except those i mentioned, who all bit us on the may many times for different reasons.

Didn’t Garbutt going mean that we could get Merrin?

I know whi I would rather have