Anyone fill me in on what's happend to our various on-loan players from last season ?

BJB - I know is back with Leeds after the season in London

Dane Manning - Was on loan at Fev

Simon Worrall - Was on loan at Tolouse

Mike Coady - Again on loan at Fev

Manning was released mate now signed with Batley.
Coady was dual registered but is now back at Leeds same with Amor.
No announcement on Worrall as yet but i doubt he'll be retained.

Not entirely sure why Leeds gave Worrall a one-year deal then sent him out on loan to be honest.

Surely the only person who'd want Worrall back would be Ian Kirke

Manning has signed for Batley.

Coady came back to Leeds mid-season (thankfuly)

Worrall - wrong size.

Not big enough to dominate as a forward and doesn't have the skill or speed to trouble out wide.

Meh

Spot on IMO, enthusiastic enough, especially in defence but if that's all it took to make the grade we'd all be playing for Leeds.

Having said that, I don't know how he's got on this season, maybe a full year at that level will have helped his game...?

Or it may have rounded his mediocrity.

With a couple of middle-of-the-road Steady Eddies in our pack (Burgess/Kirke) we don't need another.

We need aggression and steel.

Spot on, we already have his type of player.
I watched manning a few years ago and thought that he looked a good player, but I didn't really watch him much this season, clearly he cannot have impressed or we or another sl club would have snapped him up

I think he will be kept an eye on by the scouts.

In the Leeds academy where I saw alot of his games he was pure steel. Run and tackled with the heart of a Gareth Ellis type.
Quick, strong, and knew where to put his shoulder. With a bit of quality on his touch.

Now the Fev lot may want to come in here to assess his season, as I couldn't say.

It does highlight the 'step up' that is required.

But the games he got were nearly all off the bench (i looked out for him in League Express!!) and he was playing with one of the forces in that comp.

So it may be better to judge him after his year at Batley, where he will play more games, start more games and play more game time. Which is what a hungry, young, player needs.

I wouldn't write him off just yet.

True I can't really judge him cos I haven't seen enough of him, but I was very supprised from what i had seen of him in the academy that we released him and didn't keep him signed and loan him out.

Dane Manning is hard working 2nd rower, who fitted into a good Featherstone side well. He's not a top Championship League player, but will go well a great club in Batley.

Top guy too!