Hopefully we can get ourselves into a position where we can make longer term appointments in coaching and playing staff once we’re free of relegation threat.

It’s very hard to wrestle back the initiative in sport once you’ve lost it.

The level of change is crazy. It’s not impossible, maybe Ward aside, that the Leeds starting pack for 2020 will be completely different from the one which started 2019. Same for the half backs.

And there are still a few more changes to make before we’re truly competitive again. Pretty major sweeping of the broom by KS.

Needed to happen though and I’d say we are through the worst of it now. Some tweaking left but the major surgery is done.

It’s anybody’s guess how the team will travel next year. You’d like to say better than last year, but other teams have been trying to improve too. I still can’t see us winning anything until our younger lads are further on in their development.

Once again we have been taken for mugs! I cannot believe we have just released him, how soft do we need to be! Personally I am fuming about this because we won’t replace him properly, I respect family but he signed a contract so ST George should have to pay a fee. We have paid two fees now for Gale and Leeming and we just let our Captain go for nowt. We are a joke sometimes. As for no assistant aswell, words fail me. If they don’t pull something out of the bag we will be in a relegation battle again.

If we sign Prior and another prop the pack looks far better than any time last year, particularly if Crosby comes back.

Looking at the squad we look weakest in cover 1-5, especially with Tom Briscoe out for a while.

To be fair we don't know anything about the deal, we may have got a fee (although I doubt it)

Do we know roughly when Briscoe is back?

Yep agreed. Stephens and Broadbent, maybe A and L Sutcliffes, Mellor can play centre I believe too - but we are shy on quality wingers.

Think there was an article in the YEP a few weeks ago which said Tom Briscoe was due back in March or so. Would miss around 2 months, but then would need to get match fit.

Agree completely Christopher. Very frustrating for all.

merrin was giving an opportunity to get out of his contract and walk away, or commit and return, he choice to return and commit, now he has changed his mind again after a better offer. So us just another back stabbing Aussie. No respect for him at all if he goes back.

Plus side we now have a marquee and two overseas spots available. So two good props will be better than a back rower.
Plus if and its s big if we get Stevie Ward injury free for a full season at 13 we gave a better player

Bitterness doesn’t help in Sport. We wish him well and look at the squad opportunities this has created...

Merrin has just used Leeds as a stepping stone. No Aussie club wanted to offer him a big contact at the end of 2018 so he came over to Leeds on a huge contract for a year and now returns home. No loyalty just a greedy, money driven player who has taken the Rhinos for a ride.

Bang on.