I don't think we need to be that drastic, but theres a few big decisions to come in the next few years. I think we need a player in the mould of Dobson, Briers, Brough who can put the team around the park and someone who can help Peacock out with the workload. We will need a centre as Senior and Delaney leave in year or so. This is unless players come through like Clarkson has.

In years to come i feel the team should look something like:

BJB
Smith, Watkins, ..., Hall
McGuire, ...
Bailey, Diskin/McShane, Ambler
Ablett, Clarkson
Sinfield

With the likes of Pitts, JJB, Burgess and Amor available.

I'm baffled. What is up with Delaney? No one has answered me yet

Maybe it's not so much what's wrong with Delaney, he does his job very well. But maybe we could do with more of a strike centre out there?

9 tries is pretty good. Better strike rate than Keith. He's defensively sound too. Done nothing wrong and doesn't deserve criticism.

I agree, but I think people want to see some more strike power than that in the centres. I personally would not make Delaney the scapegoat, i've enjoyed watching him play this year. Senior's impact is diminishing naturally year on year, and I only hope Watkins steps up to be Senior mark 2 in the next year or two.

I would like to see the centres be more effective attackingly, Delaney came over here as a defensive centre and was never going to set the world on fire. It just annoys me that people are saying get rid of him.

Delaney, for me, was one of our better players yesterday. He is consistent and makes few mistakes. I don't think he'd look out of place in the 2nd row and would arguably be more effective there than keith who has been championed by some to play there. In a funny way his strengths and weaknesses remind me of Chris McKenna, who ended up moving to 2nd row permanently

There won't be much/any rebuilding next season as the entire squad except Donald and Eastwood are still under contract, leaving very little cap space. The real rebuilding will be in 12 months time when we have Webb, Senior, Leuluai, Buderus, Peacock, Lauitiiti, Sinfield, Diskin, Bailey, Kirke and Burgess out of contract. I expect Webb, Leuluai, Buderus, and Lauitiiti will finish, possibly Senior and Peacock too and there are rumours that Burgess wants to join Sam in Australia. Managing the departure of that many first team players will be a tricky and important job. In the short term, I think we need players to get back to playing how they used to as some often look shadows of the players they once were.

Delaney runs great lines as was shown yesterday and a move to the 2nd row as cover would be perfectly fine, defensively good enough to fit in there. The only problem with him at centre is that he doesn't feed his winger enough, but that can be worked on. Everyone has off days, let's not think about getting rid of players because of one bad performance.

I wasn't scape goating Delaney as I thought he played very well. It was more that I felt he probably wouldn't stick at Rhinos for the rest of his career. Although that said I would prefer centres to be attackers over defenders but each to their own!

Delaney will be at Leeds to see out his contract. He's well and truly settled in the Burgess household and seems very happy to be here.

Bet Wigan, Wire and Saints would be shaking like a shatting dog at that.........not!

None of that apart from BJB, Watkins and Clarkson makes any sense to me at all if we want to continue to challenge

the big mistake for me was renewing all the contracts this year. that means next season there will be 6 or 7 changes at once. thats to many. it should have been a gradual change

but if they did'nt renew there contracts who were they going to be replaced with?
although I never thought they would retain them all

thats up to the club.all players have to be replaced at some point