We also don’t know what salary those boys are on; I would doubt they are being paid as much now as they were at peak, but could be wrong.
It’s the other senior players in the squad we must get right: Ablett and JJB both still have something to offer at times this year IMO. I’m looking at Peteru, Ferres, Sutcliffe, Singleton, Cuthbertson, Parcell, Handley this season because they all should be adding something to the first team or make way for someone else/an academy prospect. There is some serious salary wedge in that group and a couple of valuable overseas spots.

The comment about Ormondroyd is very easy to make with the benefit of hindsight.

At the time Leeds signed him, he had improved massively at Featherstone in a very short period of time and in the space of a few months had gone from being a fringe member of the Fev squad to playing well enough to be on the radar of several SL clubs given one important factor about him - he didn't start playing rugby league until he was 16.

At the time Leeds signed him, it would have been hard to assess whether his sudden improvement would continue or plateau. As it turns out, it has been the latter and I wouldn't say he has improved over the last couple of years, but that's sometimes how things go.

Think the current moves for both he and Walters are the right moves for all concerned.

Both players could have earned more money over the years playing elsewhere, suspect this years contracts are sweatners for long service and both are jyst squad fillers, however there value of the field as role models to the young players cannot be undervalued, JJB maybe both will have back room jobs at the club next few years.

Walters was very average for Fev vs us last week I can see why you got rid.

Not before time.

Thanks for the GF winning try but was never a SL player in a million years.Hopefully more dead wood to follow.

It’s Kyle Turner the forward Souths are trying to offload

That would be a terrible signing. Poor kid has got a glass jaw - slightest head contact and he's off with concussion, and the last thing we need is another back rower. We need classic, north/south, head down/ass up props.

Merrin/Ward/Smith/Trout and maybe, maybe Sutcliffe is a reasonable back row. Holroyd and Mustapha are more direct and aggressive than anyone in first grade IMO. We lack a whacker in D (although Konnie gets stuck in).

Why would we be looking at Turner anyway? In Cam Smith and Owen Trout we've 2 of the best young 2nd rowers in the country!!!! Leeds past success has always been built on young local players and that will always be the case.

What Mr Grrrrrrr said.

Only a miserable get would point out the downside of this is that many unsuccessful periods coincided with spells when not enough of our young players were good enough



Hopefully we're now getting through a period where the quality has been a little thin on the ground.

Funny you should say that the match was the first time half the team had played together.