Tony Smith relying on his chairmans chequebook again I see.

To be fair, if your academy doesn't produce the players you need and you've got a chairman willing to pay, why wouldn't you?

With Leeds winning all three trophies will it have boosted the earnings of all the players especially those who were in the squads for the major finals?

Link?

Would be the fourth time in a year that we agreed with a player and told them a done deal, only to fail to do the business with the club. Not professional in my opinion.

However, having being out of the country a week, I have come back and heard similar to you. However, heard the change in position is because Burgess is a definite, and will be announced after World Cup.

I must not have been paying attention, who were the others?

So basically you're saying that blowing £150k plus maybe another £110k p/a wages on Westerman when Burgess allegedly and suddenly became available would have been the more professional approach? Riiiight....

Where's the burgess story come from? Thought it was finished

Westerman and Mossop I assume but I've no idea on the other two

Brierley perhaps?

He's ours for 2017 apparently.

As with the Burgess signing, I'm staying in the "I'll believe it when I see it" camp. As indeed Brierley should if he's yet to put pen to paper.

So wire offer more money than us but it's us that have pulled out of a done deal!, how does that work.

I completely trust in GH and Mac to bring in the right players and make the right business decisions.

As much as I would like us to sign Burgess, it will be interesting to see where that effects the balance of the squad. Top heavy if anything. And most definitely will be if it includes offloading one of our star backs.