We don't know the details of the contracts which could include game bonuses for some and flat rate for others. These bonuses may be being saved up for a new recruit.

Last Friday was Clarkson's 34th Appearance for Leeds. Doesn't strike me as an obvious bonus trigger point type number.

What money became available under this year's cap depends on how much it cost Burgess to get out of his contract.

Apart from the likes of Wayne Bennett, I suspect coaches don;t come much 'stronger' than Tony Smith or Graham Murray before him. There's no evidence GH can't work with a strong coach.

There is some evidence that overseas recruitment has been odd for some years now - some big names mixed with absolute cr*p. That does seem to be an area for which GH takes most of the responsibility, and I'd suggest the results speak for themselves - you could almost draw a direct correlation between the quality of the player in the NRL and their performances for Leeds. Funny that.

Would agree it does strike me that GH does like to be the main man in term of recruitment,

Only suspect ?

In fairness it's not like he isn't qualified to do so is it?

Perhaps, I did consider including it in the post, however it'd be too easy for a coach to just continue picking a player on the bench to avoid triggering the payment if that was the case with no particular detriment to the team.

For example Nick Scruton made 77 Appearances for Leeds in all but only 16 of those were in the run-on side and it took him 35 of those Appearances to make his full debut.