Well said Ferdy. Some on here are rather too supercilious in their 'opinions'

If this is true then it's not very Hetherington-esque

I completely agree with you on the matter and would prefer BJB to stay.
I was referring to your thinly veiled comment about the usual suspects thinking briscoe would be blocking the development of chisolm etc... A critisism that has been aimed at vickery

This may strengthen rumours of others leaving too.

Briscoe is having a relatively quiet season. Lineham and Carney are the new 'kids' on the block so to speak and rightly grabbing the headlines over Briscoe and dare I say it Hall in the SL winger position.

Briscoe, especially if he can re-capture past seasons form would be the type of flashy season ticket selling capture that should appeal to the Leeds CEO so I wouldn't discount the possibility entirely - especially if the alluded to departure does occur despite assurances to the contrary.

Agreed with others that any such move (in the still fairly unlikely event that it would happen) shouldn't come at the expence of the high priority positions that need filling first but Briscoe could be way above average for Leeds.

Briscoe would be a good signing in that he is a good winger and very good when on form.
For me though the priorities have to be the pack I'd like to see Singleton continue here and evelop into 1st choice with the likes of Baldwinson Tonks and Minchella eventually coming through.
However i still see gaps when we lose JP ,Kylie and imo we should release kirke and Moore although i see the latter departing anyway.
As for the Hooker situation that position can sealed for the next 10yrs by ones already here its down to teh Coaches to develop and get the best out of them and in Mcshanes case stop dropping/benching him when he's in form.

Suffice to say I mostly (if not always) agree with you. One way or another the hooker issue needs to be better addressed than mis-selecting Burrow as a 80 min hooker.

Do you see Liam Hood much these days? At one time he was considered the better of the two.

Hood has been doing well by all accounts at Hunslet but is still pretty raw.
I've no probs with the Burrow/Mcshane combo and leave Hood out on loan for a year next season if poss at SL level but it has to be utilised properly!

A few seasons ago Hood was being touted as the next rising star.
I believe he is 21 now and he should be knocking on the door of the 1st team if he was fulfilling his original potential, especially when we are still playing a former scrum half as hooker, which is not working.
Either our coach has something against him, or he has not progressed as hoped and looks like ending up with a Championship team or one of the lower Super League clubs.

A single animal from a pack of wolfs

Wouldn't that be Wolf?

Oh I think yours needed a

I tend not to bother with emoticons when I feel the tone of my post is clear

Fair enough!

Its the singular meaning of the pleural "wolfs"

Its half a wolverine.

Hardaker Briscoe Watkins Moon Hall would be the best back five in the SL era in my opinion.

Radlinski, Robinson, Tuigamala, Connolly and Offiah?

Its a good one, not sure they lined up together all that often though.

It was the starting backline at the beginning of the first Superleague season, the halves were Henry Paul and Shaun Edwards.

Remind me, did that backline and those halves win the competition that year?

Wasnt Connolly playing Fullback that year?

He played four games at fullback, two when Radlinski was injured and in the other two Radlinski played centre.

We did really, as we won the knockout comp at the end of the season, which you keep telling us is all that matters.

Did well to beat out Radlinski to the SL dream team at Fullback then.

I would have thought BJB would have to prove his fitness first before any club would consider signing him