Was always meant as a cheap back up for Newman to stop us needing to shift Martin around imo

As Geordie Rhino points out ,some of the former players its puzzling what their actual role is ? particularly JJB. I spent a good few years trying to figure out what Jason Davidson's role at the club was ? Ryan Hall is an intelligent ,smart lad anyway, he will do well

That makes more sense as you cannot just walk into a CEO role without some experience I would have thought.
Do we still have JP and McDermott at the club?
And if so doing what?

I’d imagine he will do a bit of a tour over 2-3 years to check he’s suitable before he moves up.

George King is avaliable from HKR, surely the kind of experience, steady prop we should be after? By no means a world beater, but would certainly be an improvement on Sangare and Goudemand, and would be a good mentor to Holroyd and Mik.

I'm happy to see Hall back at the club. It's hard because the Goldens had great success on the field, but of course apart from being mentally tough and fit, not all their skills translate into the world of admin/business.

I actually thought Sinfield made some garbage recruitment decisions when he was in charge. It's really hard to establish who actually pulls the strings at Leeds though with GH still in there.

I'd like to see Danny Mags back in some capacity in the coaching set-up, I think he's respected and again very smart tactically.

Yeah I'm not sure on King myself. You're absolutely right he could add some consistency, but a) why are one of our competitors looking to let him go, and are we now just continuing to sign other team's cast-offs? b) could the salary for him be better used towards a more ambitious signing?

Not sure. I would have been more excited had we got Eseh and/or Okoro to be honest.

You're right in that Eseh or Okoro are better long terms prospects. My worry is that our front row is either too young/inexperienced or too lightweight. Someone like King is a good size, and coming into his prime years. I had assumed they were letting him go to make cap space for JWH.

We've recruited very poorly over the last few years in the front row you have to say. We've some promising young players in that department but we've been lacking for a while in that department. Rohan imo has messed up there as i thought he would have put that right by now (to be fair the coaches before him made bigger errors but i'm surprised Rohan hasn't managed to sort).

I think who we've let go from the front row has been worse than the actual signings. Put Dupree, King V, Harrison and Walters in this squad, and it's a top front row for this comp.

Jordan Dezaria and Tom Amone are OOC. We should be targeting them.

I don't actually see any young lads ready to step up into front row any time soon.

TNW looks more like a loose than outright prop to me, although could be proven wrong. He'll have to fill out a fair but more at his height.

Leo Aliyu is athletic but again not massive; Oladipupo has great size for his age but has loads of development in him still. Young Stelfox impressed me a couple of weeks ago but again he's years off.

Hudson could be good but looking like he's going to struggle to make a first team appearance this year, very much a project. I actually like the look of him but he's coming from a long way behind developmentally for his age, and another with ongoing injury issues it seems.

We may have one or two backrowers that might transition but the fact we play Donaldson or Goudemand at prop says it all - we do lack quality, made worse when Holroyd can't stay fit for long stretches.

Needs to be the No1 target area for next year.

Has Hudson played a game this season?

is he likely to?
or is he another project