It will be Boxing Day when he plays again then.

it's large squad with so far JJB the only definate to be leaving.Probably add Ferres to that but there is also the upgraded contracts to Handley, Newman and Walker.It wouldn't surprise me if Mullally,Walters and Ormanroyd contrats didn't add up to more than £100k.As I said earlier I don't think we have a large amount left of cap space left.

if we manage to avoid relegation is there anyone from our rivals that might get relegated that we might try to sign?
mcgilvery from the giants or fifitta are the only 2 i can think of

If true, which is quite possible, a whole bunch of the squad is being paid waaay over the odds. I'd be surprised if London, wakey at least are anywhere near our spend.

London have the lowest £1.2 m or £1.4 the rest is to pay a loan off a according to Craig Harrison.

No thanks to either.

Johnstone although he’s been a bit chippy about Leeds in the past for some reason. Tupou. Wilson and English from Hudds. London have a good Academy prop, forget his name. Garbutt


Bit vulturey but that’s my pick. To be honest I don’t like the scrabble for a relegated side’s assets: I know it’s part of the game and players want to play top flight but it’s not great.

25 players on a £1.8m cap equates to £72,000.We have players on over £100k how many none of us know.But with only one departure definate I can't see that there will alot of manoeuvre with cap space.

Just to even the scales, How many of our current squad would the top five teams want?

That’s a surprisingly difficult one given the size of Leeds as a club - I’m genuinely struggling to name any aside from Harry Newman and he wouldn’t make the 17.

Given a month months to bed in etc, I think Martin will be a hit but whether or not hed be good enough to break into a top 5 team I'm not so sure.

I also think Merrin would be a player people were raving about if he was putting in performances he has for us at a top 5 team- appreciated that's a bit chicken and egg because he'd have to be good enough to get into one of those sides first...

Walker and Newman would walk into Warrington's and Hull's sides. Newman also into Wigan's. I would back Ava and Merrin also in any of the top 5 sides, even if not starting.

That's about it though.