i suppose it's down to who else we sign. if we sign a lot of quality he could be a good signing squad wise. however if all we are going to get are players of his level then then the overall standard of the squad will be very poor

Thing is if they go out and sign a quality prop aswell, how do you fit them all in? I agree with Smokey.

The Huddersfield lad should have been the squad player, with Baldwinson and Mulhurn coming through. We need quality ahead of them, and this type of signing isn't proven quality.

Unless it is just numbers up front and the quality will be half back and backrow.

Well as mentioned he's available immediately so that's answered some of your questions and it's not like we don't need some decent cover.

For me i see him more as Kylies replacement many were underwhelmed when we bought him and i still think/hope we'll bring another Prop in.
I see our 4 props as being Singleton Garbutt New Signing Mullally with the likes of Baldwinson/Mulhern as back up/rotation i think Cuthbertson will move into the BR but is still a good FR option.
I'd expect Yates to be released and i wouldn't be surprised to see Jjb and Achurch go in the next 12mths.
There is scope for 1 or more big forwards to come in imo then we could even see Mulhern spending a full yr on loan ala Baldwinson.

The "new signing" part of that would have to be something spectacular for that foursome to be adequate for a side with ambitions of winning things, as none of the other three are good enough to do it IMO.

Throw AC in as an option mate i don't think it's that bad if we get the rotation etc right we need a top quality FR no doubts at all but you just don't replace JP which is where they will need Coaching/Managing properly.

Baldwinson needs to be playing next year, and not championship one with Hunslet. He needs to be a regular 17 here or somewhere else. He can't play the Yates role of this year, that would be no good for either the player or Leeds. You can use a younger kid for that role. So he needs to move or at least have another year loan at a super league club.

He could easily fight his way in mate even more so given he can cover BR lets be honest we'll be lucky to get 15 games out of Mr Bump Delaney or jelly bones Achurch.

Ah balls.

we have won things with 1 decent prop over the years. Kylie arguably an adequate 2nd prop in short stints. Bailey & Kirke were no show stoppers. I see Cuthbertson as the replacement for Peacock. Singleton is coming along nicely and Mulally is signing on. I think it would do us good to have a more balanced set of props, as we have been spoilt with Peacock doing so many minutes for so long.

we have to leave room for widdop though

Quite correct. The ledgerinily Mick Gledhill was tweeting yesterday that Widdop is a done deal?