Its not Ben Fisher is it?

Belter of a quote from McDermott

"Richard is a player with huge potential even though he is 30"

This guy is utterly useless.

I've concluded that he must have a very rich uncle who's promised to fund the new South Stand if Gary lets his little Brian have a go at coaching.

When's Bailey gonna sign a new deal, he must be the last one left out of contract?

The Griffin rumours gone a bit quiet since last month.

Where did I say he would be an improvement?

I'll copy my post again. If you read it carefully you'll see that I'm hardly endorsing the signing.



For the avoidance of doubt, I meant Burgess and Moore have a roughly similar playing style as prop forwards who need to be spelled - this is why I said he would probably be an adequate replacement (adequate does NOT mean an improvement!) in playing terms, before adding several qualifications.

I back the signing. If its our only one then I wouldn't. But he will prove to be better than Cross and Burgess (although Burgess did seem to have a rocket up his backside for this season only, which isn't acceptable)

The way I see it is Moore in replace of Cross.
Amor or Ambler will no doubt take Burgess' spot.
Leeds must still have a hell of a lot of cap space with offloading Ali and Senior. So I expect 2 decent signings to go along side Moore. Then it would be acceptable.

I think what ER is saying is that we've signed a on a par (ish) with the outgoing Burgess, but a whole lot older.

And that we should've...

a) signed somebody at the very least as good and the same age.
b) signed somebody a bit younger, with more potential.
c) signed somebody a bit older, that was loads better.

Signing somebody older and on a par is not good enough.

I was just about to write a positive article about Brian McDermott. I’m not too sure if I can go ahead with this now. He doesn’t make it easy does he?

A while ago a Quins fan came on here with a long winded post about how he regards Brian McDermott. One of his biggest criticisms was that Brian likes to always give the over 30s one more year at a club. Now he’s just given someone over 30 an unreasonable 3 years!

However in the defence of Richie Moore prop forwards do tend to be at their best (or at least they used to be..) later on in their careers. Let’s hope this is the case here otherwise we’re truly doomed.

I think he will be an ok addition to the squad, goes well every time he plays against us.

Just the 3 year deal I'm not sure about, unless Gary got a better deal over the 3 years, who knows.

I think he will go ok too. Not sure where it leaves Amor and Ambler though.
I hope Amor can make the grade with Leeds, not too fussed about Ambler TBH

Hmmmmmm. Fairly hefty weakening of the squad if he's a replacement for Burgess IMO.

Surely Rhinos are going to announce a couple of big signings soon? Your 2012 pack looks pretty shoddy at the moment, even more so if Buderus heads off.

I'm relieved. We have finally replaced Jamie T. Phew

That makes sense. A smaller amount per year but more security with 3 years?

Thank you.

Even if that was the case it's still cost us more money.

£35k p/a x 2 = £70k
£30k p/a x 3 = £90k

Regardless of whether you class that as a "deal" or not, it's still costing us £20k more to have a player that we won't (shouldn't!!!) need for the 2014 season.

I made the figures up but you get the point.

That's what I read into it

He's not international, his club has just withdrawn from SL and he's 30, a 3 year deal is fantastic for Moore so you would imagine he's agreed to a modest wage (in sl terms)

Obviously this is all guess work and complete fiction but maybe the reduction over 3 years allows leeds to add
him to the squad without altering any other plans regarding the SC

Shocking, pointless, lacking in ambition and frankly embarrasing.

Underwhelmed.
I think he will go ok-ish, but perhaps not really where we should be looking to move things forward.

if we think we had some hammerings this year ,I dare not think about next season.If he club is consentrating on financing the new downscaled southstand! and cant afford to strengthen the team with Trophy winning quality.Maybe its time to look for new investors or maybe new owners?

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how about paul king too? wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/news/kin ... s/2011/08/?

In fairness I find it hard to imagine how current squad + Richard Moore is actually worse than current squad?

We lose Ali and Senior, who we haven't had for most of this season anyway. I hope we have something more in The Sleeve, but if the squad remained exactly the same it would probably go better next year than this.

Especially with a decent coach.

You're kidding right?

New coach.... maybe. But with the same squad and the same coach, we're not making the play offs, and that's coming from a guy who was once excited about the new big screen.