Who's the prop?

Itll be Prior.

Is Leeming good enough? Ive not seen a lot of him if im honest. Who does he play like?

He’s another Dwyer really. So in answer, not really what we are craving.

I wonder if they view Leeming as a long term project and we can get him now. I expect Dwyer to go end of next season and we bring in a controlling experienced 9 to compliment Leeming. But you never know if we do bring in Leeming he may turn out great hes only young so lots of expected improvement ahead. I believe hudds fans rate him quite highly

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I expect Dwyer also to go at the end of his contract if Leeming is brought in.I hope the plan for the future is to have Johnson has the controlling nine and use Leeming as the impact nine.

Thought so Christopher. Let's hope we get him

I said this before about Leeming and nobody agreed! He isn’t a structured Hooker, someone who can kick from dummy half or provides a platform! We don’t need another headless chicken explosion, I like Dwyer sometimes, he’s great from broken play and defences and rolling, but we seriously need structure! Personally I would have kept Lunt to nurture Johnson through, instead of paying for someone we don’t really want!

Jeez. Surely hes better than Dwyer? Last thing we need is another 9 like that.

I really havent seen much of the lad. See what happens eh?

He’s younger though so still learning. I would have thought if it was true that Dwyer would be part of the deal, so as you were. Personally think we need a different type of hooker though.

Do you think Johnson could be the controlling half in 12 months time?

I think he is a better option than the other two right now.

So the plan maybe to have Johnson has the starting nine in 12 months and then use Learning(if he signs) as the impact nine.Dwyer only has 12 months left which could be his last at Leeds.

Fair to say there was not much movement before

Wow, is Johnson so good that he is a nailed on success to be? Genuine question. Cam Smith had huge raps out of academy, but hasn't (yet) managed to transfer it to first team imo.

We're putting a lot of faith in what is obviously a very good academy prospect.

Putting faith in very good academy prospects is exactly what we should be doing tho surely?

I agree with you Marty but I wouldn't be surprised if Corey played a season on DR at Fev to prepare him for 2021 when his chance must surely come when Dwyer is out of contract.

He definitely needs to play mens footy for 2020 and at the best level he can

I agee Biff but ge also needs SL exoerience and in my opinion the target should be to get him around 10 SL ganes off the bench to prepare him for the year after.

On the subject of Dwyer, Luke Gale paid a lot of money for a hair transplant. One month with Dwyer as his 9 and he will have pulled it all out!!!!

Johnson has quality and yes, I think he'll make the cut at SL level. How far he goes, is anyone's guess.

Cam Smith is still only 21 and playing in the pack. He may not make the step up he needs to, but we'll know better in another season or two.

Why would we send Johnson out on DR when we have the reserves side to fill this season? I imagine we'll use DR only for players who are on the outer, or those who need to be put out of a comfort zone for their development.

With only Dwyer and Johnson recognised hookers I could see both being used in first grade - unless the Leeming signing comes off, in which case I'd think Johnson might be first choice reserve grade hooker.

Think the better players will be on Duel Reg as it will be a higher standard than the reserves. For me, the natural progression, in most cases, going forward will be...Scholarship < Academy < Reserves < Duel Reg < First team. Given Fevs uncertain hooker situation, i can see Johnson spending a fair bit of time there if he's not in our 17.

The Championship will be a far tougher and higher standard than the reserves and therefore Corey and lads like Holroyd, Walters and Muizz need to play there and not in the reserve competition.

As ive said before i can only see Leeds playing lip service to the reserves. Fev will be providing players for our reserves which backs that point up.

Dual reg at Fev will be far more beneficial to any of our prospective junior talents that we want in the first team within a season or two as it will be a far tougher competition than the A team competition,and IMO this is the best pathway at present to get our kids ready for 1st team SL rugby

The A team will also have it's benefits in that any late developers from our academy wont be lost to not only us but also the RL game as they will still have the opportunity to progress whist at their prospective clubs if the Championship clubs don't come in for them

IMO Lets all wait and see how this A team competition is treated by all of the clubs first before we think that its going to be the great saviour for developing junior talent

At present I am sceptical that the A team comp could be a bit of a joke competition,although I do hope that I am wrong

i don’t know what we will do with reserves next year - we still have to field a side so if Johnson isn’t the 9 who will be?

In reserve grade the players train with Leeds with Leeds coaches in Leeds systems all week, which I think has to help when they get a shot in first team. You’d like to think that any player vying for a first team shirt would be in the a team.

There will still be plenty of open-age players in reserve grade I’m sure - does the standard have to be lower than Championship?

Stephens, Tindall, Broadbent, A Sutcliffe, ?, Myler, McLelland, Cuthbertson, Johnson, Oledski, Trout, Donaldson, L Sutcliffe: Holroyd, Dupree, Walters, Burton for example would surely give most Champ sides a rattle?

Think you are kidding yourself about the reserves Jim sorry. Sure put Cuthbo and Myler in the reserves but do you expect them to motivated? Not a chance. Players like that wont be in the regional based reserves. We will have half a tean of Fev players for starters.

The best kids need to be on dual reg and will be, they still train and are around Leeds every day they just play at a higher standard and tougher standard on the weekend.