Exactly, there is no need, theres also no evidence that he offers anything that can help a young forward, him saying thats what he's here for dosnt mean its any more of an astute move...Especially as you would hope our Assistant coach would have that covered.

Not so fast...Sam Walters will be Villiame Kikau when Ferres has finished with him.

what shape is Ferres in? he had let himself go a lot from the time we signed him to when he left and we never got anything like the quality international he was before he signed either so god knows what he has regressed to now given lock down and inactivity.

i guess its a matter of opinion; there are those that sit in the camp as ever of its a stop gap, needed experience in tough times etc... but i'm firmly in the camp of play the kids in these situations regardless so imo its a shake of the head news.

Ferres could barely train for 3 years, which was why he was so fat, when he was able to train again he got into much better condition. He looks even leaner in his Rhinos TV interview

Quite. But despite that being well known at the club and on here during his time at Leeds some people still roll out the same old rubbish, it's almost wilfully stupid.

I must be a medical marvel, i havnt trained for 15 year and im not as fat as Ferres was....

More rose tinted sh!#* , he was useless when he was fit AND when he was carrying any injury. One of the worse signings of the last 15yrs not one performance proves otherwise.

does he have to play to be one of our few re signed players like mercer ?

Another so called poor man back in the fold. A complete waste of time, effort and money. We must be skint if we are re-employing players who was not good enough to hand them a contract when their last contract expired. With no scrums etc, he will be a walking penalty machine or re set the tackle count. We seem to be going backwards with our signings. Just been on the Wigan site, they are taking the pizz out of us signing Ferres.
We have coaches and senior players to help the kids, we don’t need overweight has been to show the kids.

I'm not sure Ferrers will even play a game for us. Probably here just in case we get more injuries. Can do a stint at prop if we are desperate, and was available.

I have no idea how good the kids waiting in the wings are, but maybe the club don't think they're ready to be thrown in for the amount of minutes each week that may be needed of a club in an injury crisis.

With the demands on forwards these days I'd rather youngsters started gradually getting time in a managed way. Throwing a kid in when they're not physically ready can be very detrimental

That said, I don't think Ferres is the answer to whatever question was asked

1. Ward
2. Martin
3. Prior
4. Mellor
5. Smith
6. Donaldson
7. L. Sutcliffe
8. Thompson
9. A. Sutcliffe
10. Ferres
11. Harrison
12. Walters
13. Mustapha
14. O'Connor

Does that make Walters, Mustapha and O'Connor 12th-14th choices for the back row? Going to need some injury crisis for them to get a look in.

not even who can we get for peanuts

I'm long past being judgmental about how fat people are.