Was just talking about last 6/7 years !! BUT yes forgot about Amor. That was a puzzling one. Didn't Leeds supposedly have some clause that they could have him back if they wanted to? It seems they didn't...and maybe he is the sole one the club has 'let go' that has gone onto greater things (in the last 6/7 years)

Can't say too bothered about Luke Gale either !! He was never gonna get a look in with the famous triumvirate was he?

I always thought Jodie Broughton would go on to greater things and we would regret letting him go....but again the club looks as though it was right.
Even BJB I can't say we've missed....Handley has been just as good/prone to errors (but at least he has youth as an excuse)

Gareth Ellis did pretty well in Australia.

Was hardly a young lad when he went though. Gf winner and international. And we fought to keep him.

Neither were Terry Newton or certainly Adrian Morley.

And none of those were 'let go', all left of their own accord - Moz and Ellis both left to pursue careers in the NRL, Newton wanted to go 'home' to Wigan - they weren't players we let go and we did extremely well out of all 3 of them during their time with Leeds.

The other players mentioned were generally players Leeds were happy enough to let move on - maybe Scruton is the only one we really wanted, but as has been proven, he's no loss - and he's a massive end of a bell, so probably best got rid of anyway.

That's my point....the ones we "let go" not the ones the club didn't want to "let go" in the last 6/7 (8/9?) years particularly. Scruton maybe as you say (but since proven right again)..and Amor (the only one proving to be a 'regret'). Ali maybe? Even then we got the best years out of him.

If Gale was 2 or 3 years younger, we'd probably have kept him, but you're correct, he came through at the wrong time to ever get a real look in.

Another player I think we missed out on was Gareth Raynor.

It is shame about Lee Smith, I feel that his trip to the dark side destroyed him, he had the potential to be one of the best players of his generation. I am sure he did very well out of his trip to the Dark Side in terms of money. But it destroyed him as a player.

How many players come back from the Dark Side and can reach the same heights.

But I will always remember him in the Grand Finals and his wonderful performance and also the Leo Sayer hair.

He had potential and he had a habit of getting himself noticed in big games not just the grand finals either

I think he started to step up after Tony Smith made him the Water boy for a game

Lee Smith's problem was he was one of those that liked to enjoy life away from the pitch too much. Was speaking to him and his mates the night after the last league game of 2008 in the VIP part of some nightclub.....well I say speaking the guy could barely speak, just a slur of words and barely sit up straight and it wasn't even that late and his mates seemed fine. A month later he was winning the GF MOM. If he had that Sinfield kind of professionalism he could've been even much better.