Leeming is fine at half back but that means Dwyer starting at hooker which we know is just bad, really bad.

We have Johnson at 9 as well.
He's got a few games under his belt at York and will have a full pre-season.
If Leeming has to go in the halves, Corey will be OK at 9.

Leeming did his best in the halves but he had a lot of poor games there too as well as some good ones. Please lets not think hes the answer if we lose a starting halfearly in the year.

If Gale wanted out or if Agar decided he wanted him gone or a combination of the 2 then fine let him go but the squad needs a 3rd half back if its to improve on last year in my opinion. Weve a decent pack, decent threequarter line we need the halves to get us around the park.

Weve gone from having best half back options in SL to not even having a proper back up and thats a concern in my opinion.

Myler, Sutcliffe and Leeming are all decent players but none are Leeds half backs in my opinion. Fine for 1 or 2 games but no more.

And they may only be needed for a few games, in which case were covered

Not many if any SL teams have an ex international halfback as cover in that position

Exactly.

There isn't a SL club that has three high quality halves - how are you going to get a half of the quality you want who isn't going to be guaranteed a starting place?

I cannot understand the obsession on here with props - it has always been the case since the days it was on rivals. If Leeds had 8 props there would be some on here asking for more.

We do have back up, Fuzzy and Walker can play Full Back Myler can fo into the halves.

You may not like thr option but to say we don’t have backup is wrong, we have s an ex international who has played 90% of his career at 7 as backup.

Im not saying Gale leaving doesn’t make the squad poorer what i am saying is it isn’t some kind of big disaster that will totally derail the season that you are making it out to be.

It has made us weaker, on paper, we don’t have a clue whats gone on!

If there was dissent within the ranks it could make us stronger as a team.

Thats your opinion Chris. I believe it will.

We was building a strong squad with depth and options. Now we are weaker unless we add to it.

Weve seen Myler isnt good in the halves many a time. Hes poor there but we may need to rely on him there. International half back my eye

Sutcliffe is no half back, we dont want him there either but didnt he get selected for England Knights? Another international half back no doubt

He was an international halfback wether you agree or not.

To say we have no backup is not opinion its flat out incorrect.

Wether you think that backup is good enough is your opinion, and of course you’re entitled to it, we’ll just have to wait and see who’s opinion turns out to be correct

Hopefully we wont find out cos i would like Myler at 1, Leeming at 9 and Sezer and Austin to play every week now.

We need to add another half to replace McLelland in the squad tho. Sezer and Austin are replacing Lui and Gale.

This is key. I've gone from being very, very optimistic about next year back to just hopeful. We had such depth with Gale there, in addition to the rest of the squad, that we could have ridden out even an injury crisis like we had this year. Now it's not looking anything like as rosy and we're back to being reliant on key people staying fit - something the squad was designed to avoid happening.