£20k plus Broughton for Pitts Leeds are paying, defo confirmed to me by a source i cannot reveal.................YET !!

so is this to confirmed today then ?

Nope

well to put wakey fans minds at ease, jody knows nothing about it and has not discussed moving to wakey at any point, that was as of today.......Fact.
Although he did say he would not mind as he wants first team

Fair comment but not many players will tell you the truth about their employment unless you know them personally and not just through being a supporter.

yes do know him personally and he has not spoken to anyone at wakefield yet.
BUT......apparently Pitts WAS at Kirkstall yesterday having a medical !! and that is a FACT.
Must adnmit I did not believe the rumour at first but it looks like the Pitts side of it IS happening, and the Broughton part of the deal has yet to be discussed.

Jay Pitts has not done enough for me to get too misty eyed. I accept the potential argument, I also accept he probably hasn't had chance to play his natural game. However Leeds are clearly offering what we can't and that is that.

Seems a bit strange that a club like Leeds feels the need to sign and pay for a relative unknown like Pitts. Makes you wonder if Leeds much vaunted youth system has not been quite as succesfull of late in producing those up and coming players and they have now reverted to the Leeds of old.


This I feel is good news for us as I can't recall the last player other than Ellis we sold to Leeds who really made it or didn't come back to us in the end.

Players we got (got back) from Leeds who were great for us, Conway, Mason, Spencer and Field to name a few.

The odds are in our favour

Still time for ellis

I agree it is a little strange as Leeds do have some good back rowers in the reserves and academy, but I have seen Pitts a few times and he is probably better than the fringe / reserve players Leeds have in that position, as well as having had first team experience too. Without being disrespectful to wakefield, I am sure any 17/18 year old kid who gets the opportunity to go to Leeds would take it if he was earning the same money and having same opportunity to play first team rugby. Whether he does get more game time at Leeds than he has or would get at Wakefield remains to be seen.

A reasonable assumption, although in this particular case I feel Pitts will not yet get the opportunities at Leeds that he would get at Wakefield. Of course there are a variety of reasons for him choosing Leeds and him feeling that his natural ball handling game will develop better at Leeds may feature highly amongst the others.

It wasn't Jays choice!! Why is everyone just presuming he wanted to go?? Has anyone actually thought about the fact that the club told him he had to go cos they didn't want to turn down £20k??