Good interview on Leeds Live today from Koni. Talks about how he loves it here so does his Mrs. Wants a new deal and is hoping to come into the season 10kg lighter, very honest saying he was carrying too much after lockdown last season. Should have a good season by the looks of it. https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/rugb ... t-19936083

Good interview on Leeds Live today from Koni. Talks about how he loves it here so does his Mrs. Wants a new deal and is hoping to come into the season 10kg lighter, very honest saying he was carrying too much after lockdown last season. Should have a good season by the looks of it. https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/rugb ... t-19936083

Personally i hope he gets another deal, albeit not a ‘marquee’ one.

I go to games to be entertained and he is all entertainment, we have some great talent coming through in the centres but theres Koni still has plenty to offer, it’s also great to see an OS player settle in after Ava snd Merrin leaving the way they did.

He seems to be good for dressing room moral too

He wants to drop 10kg so he can play at 110kg! That is bigger than ava and holroyd!

Yeah, I'm a fan. His physique means he'll never be able to tick every box on the field but there are some aspects he does devastatingly well. And he makes folk laugh which is no bad thing.

Bit of a modern day Steve pitchford

Totally agree. Unique specimen and genuinely good lad.i did think he looked over weight but I didnt think he was touching 120kg.

For me next year is stand off year and i want a truly top class 6. If Koni is willing to take a cut to stay to enable that to happen i would happily give him a new deal. Hes our biggest threat but he needs to cut out the errors.

A top class stand off wouldnt come cheap but would set the team up nicely with Gale in the halves.

Eh lets worry about this season first tho.

Absolutely. Great attitude. Hopefully he’ll have a really good season this year!

The lad is a unit!!

Think we have 7/8 out of contract at the end of this year so there will probably be some cash to splash. Hopefully the recovery from covid will create a bit more cash also.

Hope so. Only time will tell.

moral is eat less

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What do our S&C coaches do? He was overweight when he first came here and he's never lost that. Similar to Lolohea, now look at him since he's gone to Salford. Lost a lot of weight and looks a better player. Before I get jumped on, I know Hurrell has lost his mother and that's tragic as I understand he's a big family man. But to be at this stage where we are coming into a key part of pre-season, to be 10Kg over the weight he want's to be is just mind boggling.

I like the spirit of Hurrell, but sometimes it's like he wants to act about and clown around to make the crowd and camera's laugh rather than get his head down. When the team really need to muck in he sometimes goes missing.