Your missing the point.

Nearly everyone on here unhappy not because it is Luke Briscoe leaving but because one of our academy projects have been poached away from the club against our wishes.

Luke Briscoe could have been anybody and this page would still have been 10 pages long.

I seem to remember similar outrage when Lee Radford was allowed to leave for Bradford many years ago. When it is a potentially good academy player it seems to sting a bit more.

The fact Graham Davey, Shaun McRae and now Adam Pearson have come out and expressed thier dissapointment and anger that this has been allowed to happen only strenghtens posters opinions that are annoyed.

Whats done is done but the club need to learn a big lesson from this, at no point should a kid you are looking to keep be allowed to leave in this manner.

I would like to think our fans are more credible than that, surely we all learned from the Graeme Horne hype.

You maybe right and most might be outraged due to it being a Briscoe. But after reading this thread I have seen nothing to suggest this is the case and people are just more annoyed about the fact a young kid has been poached against our wishes.

I assume the buck has stopped here. The new dawn of us treating the kids properly hopefully has begun with the Cunnigham announcement as he has been courted by other clubs too.

According to Smailes - Hull offered 1 year part-time; Leeds offered 3 years full time and straight in the first team squad.
Easy decision for Luke, really.

If true then its a no brainer,

Although I would be surprised with all the outrage from the club in the fallout. A part team deal would suggest he was not a top priority to keep.

when was Smailes last right about something? I wouldn't even trust him to tell me the time.

Is James Rule still with the Hetheringtons daughter by the way? If so, there will still be potential for 'industrial espionage' at play!

If the "call a director" is still going ring up and ask. But don't start potentially libellous stuff without strong back up

It was an open question to the forum. I'm sure someone knows what his personal situation is.

It may have been, but the second part was a clear inference that something untoward may be/may have been afoot. If you want to pay for RL Fans lawyers, keep going, if not, leave it out please.

Was he ever?

Is that " Was he [iever[/i " with a wink and a leery grin or "was he ever " with a 'tsk' in a clipped grand accent and with an exasperated sigh?

John Smith - James Rule is now a married man - I believe she is from Manhattan in the USA. Not Leeds or Featherstone or Castleford or Hull.

what a load of rubbish he has never ever been in that situation its just an urban myth and not a very good one at that!