is this issue serious enough for Walters not to be a Rhino at the start of next season?

So Peter Smith confirming Ward has now left.
And still not a single thing from the club on its website or social media streams that I've seen.
Appalling way to treat the club captain and a player who was very significant to our more recent successes.

Yes indeed

Something might well come out yet - remember the club did pay the bloke's wages through all this time of injury. If I didn't do my job there'd be no safety net for me - I get I don't risk lifelong physical injury but still the club has a track record of standing by players IMO.

Some people are harsh!

Paying him is our side of the contract as is risking his health & career every time he took to the paddock.
Its a two way transaction , it could well be we are working on a new off field role for him but if not its a poor way to treat a homegrown player who has had to end his time here with a broken body & serious concussion issues at 27.

We employed Crosby for years just out of compassion, and I don't think there's been any suggestion we weren't going to look after Ward either.

Do you really think Leeds is treating, or has treated Ward unfairly through his time at the club?

Some on here seem determined to find fault with the club at every step honestly. There is plenty to criticise in where we are with the playing squad, but in terms of the class and compassion the club shows on a regular basis, I don't agree they deserve negativity.

There’s definitely something going on, given the context in normal circumstances the club would have announced something at this stage.

Reports suggest 10 players are set to sue over concussio related injuries. No idea whether Stevie's one of them but I'd assume the club would have been advised not to comment if he were

I'm not in the know.

To put a more positive spin on it then maybe, just maybe, the club is continuing to pay him on the Furlough scheme to do the best for him and that is why nothing can be announced.

I put IF.

Not sure. I can't comment on junior league but my experience of coaching mini and junior RU (and my son playing) is that the game is extremely safe until they start to get bigger during growth spurt - 13/14 onwards. Even then injuries seem to be more down to body development at different rates, kids just don't grow symmetrically. I've only see a couple of bad bangs to the head in many, many games and they ended up okay. The game is not completely safe and it never will be but I think head injuries are taken much more seriously now at all levels.
Problem is by the time they get to U8's tag starts to get very physical - they just want to tackle each other.

If you cant teach them to tackle, what they going to do when they reach open age and dont know the proper techniques. coming up against someone whos been playing for twenty years against someone who hasnt spent any time developing a fundamental element of the game.
I appreciate what they are trying to do but the method is all wrong