Guess the injury he picked up early season may be worse than thought? I was told he had surgery on his ankle / knee last week.

I think Connor is. a Blease buy not BA as he won’t know very much about him , BA obviously ok with it.
Don’t particularly want Sivo , and old winger past his best , we have already signed one of those !

No doubting Sivo's quality but probably not the best use of a quota spot.We have two good wingers for next season not convinced we need a third with Lumb waiting for his chance.That saying i would still be happy if we could land Sivo.If all the back line were available it would be interesting who Arthur would go with.

If Newman can get through them so can Connor.

That reply was to me, I posted about the Sivo rumours and asked him. I think he was deliberately careful with his words, or the person he spoke to was, and that the statement was said in a way that was true at the time, but if Mom does leave, then things change...

Looking from the outside in, if I was a fan at Wigan or Warrington (will never,ever, ever happen) I would look at our recruitment and say that Leeds were stronger but still not going to be top 3 material. They will not be looking at the names signed and say why didn't we get them! Hopefully that will change over the course if the season. It is easy to get carried away when the new recruits are announced. Look how happy we were last year with Croft and Ackers. We knew to begin with that we were at least 1 prop short but we had visions of being back in the mix for play offs.
fingers crossed that the sum of the whole is greater than the individuals. I will always have hopes of getting to Old Trafford but i still don't see it for 2025.
Are we moving in the right direction, yes i think so. I will still renew my season ticket and hope to be entertained and not leaving HQ depressed like this year

Yeah i saw that it was you matey

I read it differently, he didn't say he isn't going to Leeds atm, or as it stands
Seems to be saying he's going somewhere, but not Leeds to me

In the NFL they have dead cap when players leave and there's time left on their contracts. It's all transparent too.

I'd love to know how salary cap is affected in Superleague when players leave with time on their contracts Re: Goudemand and potentially Momorovski.

The difference being that NFL are cuts and Superleague being mutually agreed. Presumably there's at least a partial pay off.

I think someone said that payouts didn't count towards the cap? Not sure if that's true or not.

As per LeedsLurch's post, the names we have signed so far will not have broken the bank. Palasai has a decent enough track record, but if Smith had looked to sign a player like Jenkins there'd be consternation. Along with Connor it feels like we're taking a high risk approach - if it comes off these will look like genius signings, if not.....Although I do like the fact that they are all on 2 year contracts. Hopefully we've learned lessons about overcommitting to long term deals.

Looking at our squad vs Wigan, Sts etc it still feels like some of the existing players must be earning overs based on actual performances if we're near the cap.

I agree that they are all risky signings. Jenkins and Palasai have had a lot of injuries and if either player gets a 8-10 week injury in the first few rounds next season there will be criticism for signing more crocks.

Connor's attitude / ego is well documented and if that does not work out, then it will attract criticism. Further, signing a 37 year old in Hall come the start of the season is also high risk.

I would personally have preferred mow low risk options but hopefully particularly in Jenkins, Palasai and Connor's cases, they all work out.

Gutherson been told to leave Parra, it’s all starting to fall into place lol

What is? He’s s fullback isn’t he, we have enough in that position.

No new signings or rumours in the last 24 hours. Anyone else getting bored?

Saw a mention of us being linked with Waqa Blake somewhere in the twitterverse. He's leaving Saints and spent a good part of his career under Arthur at Parramatta. It's not been reported by any media sources.