Reports from Oz suggest Farah is Leeds is becoming ever stronger

If true it's excellent news (hopefully Buderus mk2) .... However as others have stated we don't want a return to the bad old days of "major signings" who only caused rancour and resentment within the dressing room !! That would be a retrograde step after a decade of building this wonderful successful team ethos that prevails.
It's the reason i would always favour Shaun Lunt (he is only out on loan to HKR isn't he?)...he is more than good enough for SL ....and more importantly we already know he buys into the Leeds team ethos

Ellis, Peacock, Webb, Lauititi, Eastwood, Buderus, Cuthbertson, Briscoe, Galloway? You do realise we have made major signings throughout the last decade?

Surely the rest of the squad would be licking their lips at the prospect of a current SOO hooker signing for us. He is better than Aiton and he has thrived on the back of our style and go forward this year.

Thats the spirit the more Farah is linked with a move to Leeds you get this "wouldn't touch him with a barge pole" thinking changed to "excellent player"

Like Saints fans When they thought Savelio was moving to wires, he went from a great prospect, to being, overrated and not that good anyway.

Now he's signed a new deal with them he's NRL standard again. ...

I don't think anybody has questioned Farah's ability, which is unquestionably excellent. What some have said is that he's been rumoured to be involved in negative a player power culture which had undermined a previous coach.

You've noticed that those are [idifferent[/i people voicing those [idifferent opinions[/i?

I don't think he's shagged his team mates misses though like some.

Yes! And that's my point!! Did they or did they not buy into the hugely successful team ethos or not? Will be Galloway be of the right temperament and character: i strongly suspect yes!! Will Farah be??!?

Bravo Sir!

Lol, oh dear

there will be carnage......

Masseyve carnage

Seems strange to suspend him when the reason they signed him was that he was a free scoring winger

Yes, but he wasn't expected to drop the ball.

Have to disagree with Rogues on this one. A signing like Farah for any side would be great for SL and on the subject of youth players, i can't see how training and learning from a State Of Origin hooker would hamper their development in any way at all.

On the subject of his attitude. There is only one man that controls the dressing room and he will be gone by the time Farah arrives. If his attitude is as bad as people are saying i can see a major rift between Farah and McGuire & Burrow.

Roguesy probably thinks so too

My concern isn't Farah, he is a very good player. It's the fact that Leeds will have about six overseas players in the team, that's too many IMO. If say Bradford were to come up and he went there then no problem. I made the same point about the number of overseas player after the Leeds v Saints semi final when there were eleven involved
I'd be equally as disappointed if were Wigan although to be fair we only have three, and I think we fielded twelve from our academy system v Wire on Friday.

Nikau Blackmore Part II

Only 30% of premiership footballers are British, I think 5 (as long as they're of the right quality) from a squad of 25 is a good balance.

Sounds like Wests hand is being forced by their own incompetent. They have royally screwed up their salary cap several years ago by messing about with backloaded contracts.. www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/a ... ub-in-mind

Sounds like Wests hand is being forced by their own incompetent. They have royally screwed up their salary cap several years ago by messing about with backloaded contracts.. www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/a ... ub-in-mind

It's cute that you're obsessed with one of the most successful Academy systems in world rugby (if you base it on honours won by its graduates), and thank you for your concern.

If I were you though, I'd be more worried about why Wigan's Academy system is basically acting as a feeder team for the NRL rather than helping its first team to win trophies.

I know we fielded 11 from ours on Friday.

We also fielded three British lads outwith our Academy that are/were internationals (Peacock. Hardaker and Briscoe. We also rested two Academy lads htat have played international rugby (Watkins and McGuire) and had one other Academy produced international out injured (JJB)

What's your point?

Say na more

How many overseas players (in total) will be playing at Wembley on Saturday. I'm guessing that it'll be the most in a long time. Hull and HKR are merging their academies and are still bringing in more overseas players.

That's my point