On the Rhinos forum ,one fan has suggested that the loan players might be Walters , Johnson ( a young hooker England Academy) Holroyd ( young 18 stone prop) and possibly Mustapha ( young back row).The latter depends on Leeds securing an overseas signing
To me that would look good business if the loans are long term.

Thought the Bulls had announced it was 2 young Leeds players not 4? Given the already youthful squad I don't see any great benefit in letting an experienced player leave to bring in more young players from other clubs. I'd personally rather just give our own a chance if that's where we are at. Obviously some fans will happily pay 20 odd quid to watch anyone in a Bulls shirt and that's their choice. I can't say it's convincing me right now though.

Ok, but will the prices reflect that? Or are the long suffering fans expected to cough up top 4 prices again to watch us develop players for other clubs? At least when they're our players we can flog them to pay the bills!!

IMO this season is a needs must scenario. We can’t recruit as we were too late to the party and we can’t afford to get relegated. We need a team on the pitch that stays up and then we need Sawyer to balance the books and hopefully we then have a bit more money and then the time to recruit properly for 2021 hopefully back in Bradford

Quote Bully_Boxer="Bully_Boxer"So we take a load of Leeds youngsters on loan, doesn't they basically prevent us on doing much in terms of dual reg, or at least make us pretty unattractive to a dual reg partner since we can only play 4 or 5 anyway? Not surprising news though, we are getting used to seeing experienced players flogged once the bulk of season tickets sales are in.'" Aren't dual reg and loan players treated differently? Report out just before Christmas said we're closing in on a dual reg deal with Hull FC. https://www.totalrl.com/bradford-close- ... -reg-deal/

Quote Bully_Boxer="Bully_Boxer"So we take a load of Leeds youngsters on loan, doesn't they basically prevent us on doing much in terms of dual reg, or at least make us pretty unattractive to a dual reg partner since we can only play 4 or 5 anyway? Not surprising news though, we are getting used to seeing experienced players flogged once the bulk of season tickets sales are in.'" Aren't dual reg and loan players treated differently? Report out just before Christmas said we're closing in on a dual reg deal with Hull FC. https://www.totalrl.com/bradford-close- ... -reg-deal/

Not massively. You're allowed 5 Loan & Dual Reg players in each 17, only 4 of which can be DR. So you can have 5 Loan or 4 DR & 1 Loan, but you can't have 5 DR. The maximum combined is still 5 though, so if you throw two Leeds loan players in with Rooks & Milnes, that only leaves 1 spot available for a DR player.

Thanks for clearing that up for me! Also since seen that Hull FC might be DR with Dewsbury anyway, although the source is our in house commentator.

Batley rumoured. Hull KR are partnered with Dewsbury.

I just struggle to see how losing a contracted experienced proven player is brilliant business. These young kids might well be great players one day but the Championship is a tough league. Perhaps if the wage saving will be made available to Kear it might be better business. But it all just feels a bit familiar to me of releasing higher profile players once the season ticket sales peaked. Call me cynical...

There is also a clause in his contract if a SL team comes in for him he can go. Maybe we had no choice? After all if it’s in his contract it’s clear cut

Perhaps, in which case you'd think they would be talking of making funds freed up available to JK if it wasn't just more cost cutting once enough had parted with their money.

You never know, maybe they will