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?

Should have never been signed in the first place. he was injury prone when we signed him.

So he's going to beat his record on games played in the negative.
Excellent.

We should have let him go at the end of last year and brought in a UK winger and an O/S prop.
Poor recruitment decision.
And this is not hindsight, this was totally predictable.

Someone like Swift would have been a good signing at the start of the season and like you say bring in an overseas prop.
I also feel us missing out on Fitzgibbon was a bad mistake.

It's all irrelevant anyway, Smith has got the spine he's hand picked and we are still a shambles.