You warned us four years ago, with a suggestion that it would happen any minute.

I think it's safe to say we had the best of what was left. He's now 30 and a veteran.

Since then of course, we happen to have uncovered a full-back who is ... ahem, somewhat better.

Still, if he's back in Yorkshire, at least that will make it a lot easier for you to stalk him.

Your commitment to this has been admirable

Best get over to the Leeds board and warn them now.

Well it was on the cards I suppose

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We know how to support him better?

By turning a blind eye to all his off field antics and then sending him off to Australia when they became too much of a problem?

Done wonders for him that treatment!

Maybe if Leeds had dealt with him in the correct way in the first place his career would have ended up very differently rather than him getting sacked from every club he has played for.

He’d been involved in a lot of bad things and Leeds stood by him . If he was less talented he would have been moved on way before, but that’s sport and business. He then decided to run and ask to leave as soon as we had a bad patch . He was not shipped out to Oz at all, he requested a loan away. But then sold to Cas when he came back a bit humbled, as we couldn’t allow him back at that point.
He’s still had a brilliant career, even after Leeds. Wasn’t he your player of the season one year?
It’s also not easy commuting M62, especially with a baby and sleepless nights…….

Leeds turned a blind eye to all his off field problems because he was playing well.

He went to Oz because he had to because he got too much for Leeds and it was easier to move the problem on and as far away as possible.

Hardly great support.

If they had actually disciplined him when he was getting in bother off the field and creating issues almost weekly rather than letting it go because he was a good player he would probably wouldn’t still be having the issues (ego related) he has now, and indeed had before he signed for Leeds to a certain extent.

Leeds nurtured him in the field very well however let him down with their treatment of him away from the field in a big way.

Turning a blind eye isn’t supporting him, it’s letting him down particularly at such a young age and at his first fully professional club.

Senior players tried and were like brothers to him. JJB has referred to him as his little brother in the past. What more could we have done? Yes we turned a blind eye as on firod way going well . But in all fairness your didn’t sign him because you wanted to support him. You signed him because you sensed an opportunity to get a world class player, and was great opportunism…I don’t blame you for that as that’s how sport works….

It’s not the players that needed to look out for him though is it.

It was also the changing room that turned on him when he had to leave for Penrith.

The management at Leeds let him down.

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Rubbish. Zak admits he let himself down.

As he has at every stage of his career including this most recent one.

That’s very obvious but had Leeds supported him so well in the first place he may have had a significantly less erratic career.

Not sure if you are a parent but I am and when my kids were younger when they were naughty they were disciplined. Made accountable, a word that has cropped up a lot regarding Zak.

Leeds did not discipline him or hold him accountable as a developing lad off the field and that on my opinion has followed him all his career.

For you to come on here saying Leeds know how to support him, insinuating Wigan don’t is absolute nonsense. Leeds let him down as a young player by not making him accountable.

It's a bit late in the day to still be believing the lie about Cas and Leeds that Lenagan told you when you signed him. It's long since been exposed.

We “know but they refuse to admit it!