Quote: The Ghost of '99 "Got to laugh at the idea of Hetherington being either tight when it comes to investing in the team (£150k transfer fee for Brett Ferres!) or some sort of protectionist dinosaur. He's paid more transfer fees than anyone else in the league, it's just his best investment has been in the youth side.
As the only person in the game who has founded an expansion team and made it a success and run a big establishment team and made it a success and is one of the few on the SL side who doesn't need to make a selfish grab for more cash his views are probably worthy of more weight than others.'"
Hey Ghost, got to agree with a little of that post, but correct me if I’m mistaken, the “ten year policy” which has been used by Leeds so well, has probably also been their Achilles heal so to speak, as with Burrow Mags Watkins Sir Kev Ryan Hall and others, Leeds have been able to manipulate the fifty percent discount cap for ten year service and has been able to sign a nigh complete Australian pack, presumably using the extra cash available because of this system, nothing wrong with this, but it has also made Leeds keep players longer than they needed. The part of your post I don’t agree with is the wise investment of youth, Sinfield and Watkins are Lancashire lads, as Singleton is a Cumbrian, which players would you say in all honesty, in this present Leeds team, do you think will reach the standards of these great players.