Good Luck to the kid. As others have already stated, he is a good player with bags of potential and has probably realised he won't get a chance under the Radford regime. Some thing needs to be done because the amount of young talent being allowed to leave/sold/shown the door is frightening. I know it's a business, and deals have to be done but not retaining good healthy players won't build a strong squad which is the key to the game.

Thanks very much to your club for letting us have James back.
Thought he was a very talented player when he was with us last time & I couldn't be happier that he chose to come down to the "Smoke" again.
He'll become an adopted, honoury Cockney soon.

So of the four freinds thats Crooks, Lineham, Cunningham all gone - only Shaul left and he wont last much longer. The future of our club discarded like

Don't worry, its ok. the club will probably replace them with overpaid, underperforming, contract breaking overseas players who can't get a game in the nrl

His girlfriends just got a first at uni, reckon got a job lined up down there so maybe a easy choice for him.

Why?

How ever much I want to see the back of Radford as our head coach, unless you know the situation (which I don't either) between Cunningham and the club, its unjust to simply blame Radford for everything.

You have to blame Radford.
Cunningham was sent to London to gain experience and when London began moving him from the nine position and playing him as a centre or filling in other positions Radford took him back.
Radford then released Heremaia on the basis that he had Cunningham available and he didn't want to stop his progress into the first team.
Radford then did exactly what London did and played him everywhere but the nine position and when he did actually get some game time from the bench at nine he did OK.
My guess is Cunningham will have asked Radford why he wasn't getting game time at 9.
For several weeks now we havnt seen Cunningham so make of that what you will.
Its obvious Radford now doesn't rate the lad.
Apart from taking the club backwards Radford is damaging our young player development.

How about he may not have been that good as everyone thinks,I was never impressed with him in the U-19s and he had a couple of decent games when he played,also he may have asked to be released if his personal life means he was going to move down south.

Not good enough in a lot of peoples eyes at the club. I've seen absolutely nothing in his time here or at London to suggest otherwise. In fact, they used him as a half-back.

Some people here need a dose of reality. We cannot keep every single player because he was once "promising" or is a local lad. How many Super League clubs have clamoured to sign him? None.

But Radford rated him.That was one of the reasons he let Heremaia go.

Can yeaman play hooker? Radford will find a place for him somewhere.

thought Cunningham would be ok, but hes gone we don't know the reasons why unless your the ones in the know,

Probably rip it up at London, get signed by a SL club and become a top hooker




Does anyone get a feeling of de ja Vue?

No, you really don't have to blame Radford. And as you put in your post "your guess" meaning you don't know the actual position.

From the limited game time he has had, he showed no more than Howarth did.

So, if Radford didn't rate him, I can only guess that's based on his attitude in training, playing ability and fitness. That, in your opinion Radford has changed his mind surely cannot be a bad thing if a player is not up to it. I am really not sure how anyone outside of the club could make that judgement call.

I remember a few years ago when Luke Briscoe signed for Leeds, there was uproar on here that we always let go our young potential. Personally I think we dodged a bullet with Luke Briscoe, because let's face it, he hasn't featured for Leeds First team and they are a club who consistently develop the talent of a young player.

His publicly stated reason on Twitter is that he felt he would never progress while being behind one of the best hookers in the league at FC.