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

Hudson was supposed to be the replacement for Walters.
Terrible business so far.
And we haven't replaced Tetevano.
Guess what - we're massively short up front.

Fusitua out fir 8-10 weeks Time to pay him off and look at getting someone else in for test if season as we have no out n out wingers. Should never have been re signed bad business all round. https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/rugb ... 058673.amp

Fusitua out fir 8-10 weeks Time to pay him off and look at getting someone else in for test if season as we have no out n out wingers. Should never have been re signed bad business all round. https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/rugb ... 058673.amp

Yep

Agree with Rollin... terrible business to retain him, absolutely laughable. Paying him off still is included in the cap i believe..

You've got to feel for Fusitu'a, but he's been a bit of a disaster for the club. Maybe time to look at a loan signing, unless Edgell or one of the other young players can cover there. Teams don't seem to use wing as a place for kids to learn anymore, maybe its just become too specialised?