Whitehead is 34. I think he'll retire and stay out in Oz, no doubt the Raiders would offer him a role once he's finished playing.

I’d imagine whitehead would retire, but he’s the type of back row I’d want, more to his game than a workhorse.

We badly miss some second phase play sometimes. It seems there’s on Sangare with an offload in him and some of his are ill-advised.

I was just thinking a final year swansong a little like Hall TBH: Whitehead is better than any other backrower at the club still I'd say.

Bousqet and Papali would transform our pack from Middleweight to Heavyweight. Sounds too good to be true, so probably is, but that's the quality of player we should be aiming for.

Matt Shaw with a Whitehead speaking to two super league clubs article, must have been reading this thread for gossip

Whitehead probably signing for the Cod heads as player coach.. that’s the sort of high class rubbish Mr Shaw would report.

So I got an update regarding our transfer business and what the club is currently trying to get done ahead of the 2025 season.

Rohan Smith has made a big enforcer/ pack leader his main target for 2025, been told we have currently spoken to Tom Amone, Jarrod Wallace & Josh Papali'i so hopefully what Sharky said about a deal being close for the latter is pretty much done.

Hull FC are interested in Jarred O'Connor and wouldn't be surprised if they did snatch him from us with Danny Houghton retiring for them, plus he'd get more of a starting job for them as we Currently have Ackers for another 2 seasons after this one. This could affect if we resign Corey Johnson or not because as of last week he was pretty much leaving the club after this season, but if O'Connor moved on I'd imagine he may be offered a contract extension to be our 2nd choice hooker behind Ackers. Not surprisingly he's come back into the fold this week for the Catalans game all be it we are missing a lot of players at the moment.


Luis Roberts may also be on his way out as the club was going to offer him an extension but decided to resign Ryan Hall for a year as the club see Alfie Edgell, Ned McCormack, Riley Lumb & Jack Smith as future stars in our backline and are also homegrown talents unlike Roberts, he still may stay at the club but it would be on a smaller contract he is currently on and he would have a job on fighting for his place.

The club want Rhyse Martin to stay for 2025 a contract has been offered but Rhyse is currently weighing up his options as a NRL deal may come up for him.


Finally the club are monitoring our 7 position at the club Frawley may get moved on if the right halfback became available but the club aren't making this a high priority as they hold Jack Sinfield in high regard and wouldn't want to block his development and are hopeful he'll be a starting halfback for the club in the next 2 years.

Thanks for that (assume it's from a legit source ). aligns with what Sharky is saying too..

It would be a mistake to let O'Connor go. I'm hoping the player sees a long future at Leeds. He's done well so far.

Looking at this:

OUT - Fusit'ua, Martin, Frawley, Roberts, Donaldson

IN - Cotric/Reimis Smith/Feldt (Wing/FB cover), Amone, Shaun Johnson (MQ), Qareqare (Cas), Seguier/Dezaria (Cats)

Oli Leyland (Lon) had a good game against us, is utility/cheap/young/British and would be worth a punt?

Euan Aitken (Dol) also excellent utility value and 'Scottish'

Josh Pa'apali v.good, but expensive.(MQ)

Jarrod Wallace again good, but getting on a tad.

Zak off to Hull for 2025 according to reports, joining Asiata and Briscoe.

Leeds interested in bringing in Greg Eden goes to show what ambition we have right now.

Where have you heard that one from?

A couple of reports on twitter. I'd like to see the young guys given some game time but this makes some sense. The first team needs seasoned pros with some youth coming through. Not the youth team playing every week and also being the first team.
At some point we need to address why we always have so many people out injured.

Most of the above sounds plausible. JOC is a good squad player, but we have Ackers to start and several other good hookers at the club... he's not going to get past Cam at 13 (although Cassell or Gannon could).

I was thinking we might sign Jason Qareqare until Hall was announced, and Lumb looks a decent prospect.

Re. Roberts, you can also add the forgotten man Max Simpson into our impressive list of back line talent. We have four or five genuine first grade potentials coming through.

We definitely need an enforcer prop, maybe another high quality second row if Martin leaves.

Genuinely think we should have a very competitive side for 2025, if we can fill these final couple of holes and the young lads continue to develop.