Club confirm that Ali will leave at the end of this season.

Cheers for the service Ali, all the best for the future. Think the timing is right IMO.

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I feel a bit emotional.

Great player to watch, anad an all round nice sort of fella as well. Thanks for the memories Ali. There have been plenty of them.

I think the void for a game-breaking forward will need to be filled from somewhere. Players like Ali don't come along very often and he will be very, very tough to replace.

great player and comes accross as a good bloke too, hope he gets a chance in the next two games to fight for a wembley place - at full fitness he has to play

Great player in his time and he has been a joy to watch BUT we have got nowwhere near the best from him over the past couple of seasons with injuries so shouldn't be missed too much.

Fair decision ... BUT all the more incomprehensible now that the club re-signed Webb ....and especially Kirke.

He's already been missed. He was a game-breaker, and we don't have any others. We haven't had any substitute for a fully fit Ali for a couple of years now, since 2007 really.

One of my all time favourite imports at Leeds, but it is the right time to release him.

The impact he had in the 2007 GF was outstanding. Saints simply couldn't handle him. Would be great if he could repeat this form at Wembley against Wigan!

Shame he couldn't maintain his form, but the niggling injuries appeared to take their toll.

I'm feeling this one! What a legend! Ali at his best was just magical! A true rhinos legend!

Farewell Ali, leaving us with some of the fondest memories! Without a doubt one the best ever overseas signings!

Feel very sad over this. He's a gamebreaker and going to be a massive player to replace. Thanks for everything Ali.

Spot on - right decision to let the Big man go as he simply on available enough and when he is his spells are increasingly short - but he like Keith Senior will be greatly missed.

You're obsessed - completely different decisions. (Kirke and Webb are fit 90% of the time)

The greatest overseas player ever to play for this great club. I for one will never forget those amazing and seemingly impossible ofloads he came up with on many a occasion.

Legend

We had a glimpse of his greatness at the beginning of last season when he was sensational for a few games. Fitness and injury have taken their toll - you just can't carry on forever. A truly inspired signing and a pleasure to have watched him in a Leeds shirt.

Let's not allow nostalgia to cloud our view here - over the last two seasons he hasn't been anything like as effective or as consistent as he was in the previous couple.

While still capable of the occasional moment of magic, he's not the game breaker he once was.

All the best to him, possibly one of the best overseas players in the SL era and will always remember the full lengther at against St Helens.

Legend

I also share the view that becauuse of his skill, longevity and successes he is Leeds greatest ever overseas player. It's been a joy.

I'd still prefer him in the 17 to Kirke and Hauraki, both this season and next. But making a bad move in retaining Kirke and signing Hauraki wouldn't make re-signing Ali the right thing to do so, sentimentality aside, the correct decision.

Great bloke, great player. Ali Bomaye!

I would say this was exactly the moment to allow nostalgia to cloud our view.




Looking back at his whole Leeds career, the overall effect is that he's been awesome.

I further maintain that, at whatever stage the game-breaking ability was lost, the fact remains that we haven't yet replaced it.

A major contributor to the success in 2004 and 2007 - superb player in his pomp - sadly we have seen only glimpses of that in recent years.

Great player who would still be in my 17 for Wembley.

Spot on.

The right decision for the future of the club and how we move forward.

Is Ali in 2011 the player he was 5 years ago? No.

He can show glimpses and he can still come up with important plays. But Leeds have to think about the next 5 years.

So it's a tough call to make, but 100% the right one.

Now we can look at his whole career in blue and amber and wax lyrical about the way he holds a ball, the flick impossible passes, the rugby freak. It was great to see. He was entertainment. All done with that big, daft lad, grin on his face.

A superstar of his time and a true gent. All the best big fella.

Given that I seem to remember a "leaving party" being put together for Matt Adamson and Dave Furner (two players who arguably contributed less for a shorter period to the success of the club), is there merit in putting together something similar for Ali? A chance for the fans to show their appreciation and wish the big fella well?

P.S. That's not me volunteering to organise it by the way...

Let me know when you organise it Andy and I, for one, will be there.

Big, big statement if only for the fact Arthur Clues played for Leeds.

But, you know what, I tend to agree with you. An absolute legend and top bloke and clubman, too.