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| Nick Bradley-Qalilawa? A big-name three-quarter, that's for sure. Would probably fit GH's salary structure too.
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| Quote: rhino2009 "Andy Wilson got the story of Leeds lining up a NRL star outside-back from a very good source. Of course it might be inaccurate but I would bet it's true. '"
Anyone else struggling to recall a single occasion when Wilson's broken the news of a major signing prior to their having heard it elsewhere first?
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| He's mentioned it on twitter a couple of times.
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| The problem with this is that anybody can say 'I've heard Leeds have signed a big name, but I'm not willing to say who'... Completely pointless speculation. If a signing is announced he'll then claim this is who he had heard, and if no signing is forthcoming, it will just be forgotten about, as he never actually confirmed anything.
If he has a scoop, then surely he should publish it - thats generally what his job is.... I can understand that he may have heard a name, and there might be reasons that he cant or wont mention it (confidentiality, loss of trust etc), but if this is the case, he shouldnt have mentioned anything at all.
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| Quote: Superted "The problem with this is that anybody can say 'I've heard Leeds have signed a big name, but I'm not willing to say who'... Completely pointless speculation. If a signing is announced he'll then claim this is who he had heard, and if no signing is forthcoming, it will just be forgotten about, as he never actually confirmed anything.
If he has a scoop, then surely he should publish it - thats generally what his job is.... I can understand that he may have heard a name, and there might be reasons that he cant or wont mention it (confidentiality, loss of trust etc), but if this is the case, he shouldnt have mentioned anything at all.'"
I agree. If there were some genuine reasons why he could not mention the name, which is possible, why raise the possibility on TV! He raised the matter on twitter a few weeks ago so I assume that as he mentioned it again on Sky this week, the signing is still "on". He does have a pretty good record of getting information before other journalists and as he said on TV, this rumour has come from a very good source.
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| You would have thought that the name would have leaked out by now if it were to be such a big name signing.
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| Quote: chapylad "You would have thought that the name would have leaked out by now if it were to be such a big name signing.'"
I agree but Achurch didn't leak out although he's not a big name.
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| Put it this way - I'd be very surprised if there is a 'major' signing. Major in my eyes would be a Jamie Lyon, Matt Cooper, Steve Matai type signing (I'm trying to remain slightly realistic with the names that might come to superleague) - certainly not a David Williams, MItch Achurch, Brett Delaney (although I really am a Delaney fan), Richard Moore, Darrell Griffin or Weller Huaraki!
We shall see....
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| Quote: rhino2009 "I agree but Achurch didn't leak out although he's not a big name.'"
True but we might have signed Achurch and made it public knowledge all in a realtively short period of time.
With our "big name signing" apparently in the bag for some time now you would have thought the players current club or one of the Aussie journalists might have spilled the beans.
We live in hope.
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| I believe Andy Wilson's story although I think the definition of "major" might be debatable! If nothing comes of this rumour what about Keith Lulia at the Bulls. He's been very impressive and although still under contract for next year might be available depending what happens to the Bulls.
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| Lets be honest we have not come anywhere near replacing G Ellis , K Senior , D Buderos, A Lautiti so keeping fingers crossed their will be a big name on his way.
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| A left centre please.
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| Quote: rhinos12497 "Lets be honest we have not come anywhere near replacing G Ellis , K Senior , D Buderos, A Lautiti so keeping fingers crossed their will be a big name on his way.'"
Generally I agree. We did replace Ellis with Eastwood but it didn't work out for him. I hope it's a big name but if so I'm surprised there's been no leaks. We want a centre but I've no idea who from the NRL.I assume there will be an announcememt when our season and the relevant NRL club's season is over.
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| Mark Gasnier to come out of retirement?..still 'only' 30/31ish
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| Quote: Biff Tannen "Mark Gasnier to come out of retirement?..still 'only' 30/31ish'"
Yes please! You never know and stranger things have happened but I doubt it.
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