Lifestyle, money, training and development. The NRL offers things to our youngsters now that super league can't. This is something we are going to see more and more of over the next decade, the top english youngsters being snapped up by the nrl.

No assumption....no idea of the exact circumstances....just a sounding off on a meaningless unofficial public forum: nothing more. Is that allowed?

Nope. I'm too dense to work out to do it

Is that all? My mates at MENSA wouldn't entertain such an inferior intellect.

If they can't drink 15 pints a night I aint bothered

Jimmy Savile was a member of MENSA.

#justsaying

...and GH should be: he deserves it without any question

just saying

So he and Nantwich have more things in common!

Brett Delaney, Joel Moon out for 2 - 3 weeks.
Ryan Bailey out this week.
Danny McGuire and JJB to return within the next 4 weeks.

In other words - I could not get a visa due to my criminal record so I will stay put!!

I think we all realized that Ryan would have to stay in this Hemisphere rather than pursue any of the prospective interest from the NRL clubs due to his trouble in obtaining a working visa
I believe that this was discussed as long ago as June when the rumors first surfaced Sal

Heard that Josh Sunley has been released with immediate effect, and quite a few of the under 19s have been told to look for new clubs, with the U16s taking most of the spots in the 19s.

You only really have 3 or 4 from each age group that the club will seriously see as potential stars. Baldwinson and Tonks were the main from the 19's with Sutcliffe. Minns has pushed himself in along the way. A lot are always just fillers.

That was why losing the two who were planned should have been seen as an issue.

Now you look to the under 16's, and luckily in this lot you might be looking at 5 or 6 from what I hear.

well hopefully some lessons will be learned from that situation and we will see them in the first team for years to come

Good bunch, the current 16s. I'd like to see Mark Lilley move up with them to keep some continuity there, although I'm not sure whether that might cause problems for his lad Jordan (probably one of the "five or six" Gotcha is referring to) if his old man is coaching the side.

It's going to be a golden opportunity for some of these lads, particularly the half backs and forwards. By the time they get to 18/19, there are going to be some gaps in the Leeds first team that need filiing.

Just the way it happens sometimes, you get a lot of established players in the peak of their careers and it leaves nowhere for your emerging talent to go.