^ This.

Or will be played out of position, left kicking their heels in the stand/ academy set up, sent out on loan to a club that won't play them or lose them altogether.

Yeah, they'll join all those other Leeds academy products that the club lost and are currently ripping up SL...

quite.

As far as I can make out, the best team of former Leeds players you could put out from currently playing UK RL staff is:

1. Richie Mathers
2. Jodie Broughton
3. Ashley Gibson
4. Peter Fox
5. Danny Williams
6. Jordan Tansey
7. Luke Gale
8. Kyle Amor
9. Paul McShane
10. Garreth Carvell
11. Weller Hauraki
12. Chris Clarkson
13. Scott Murrell

14. Liam Hood
15. Jay Pitts
16. Nick Scruton
17. Jason Netherton

not exactly a team a world beaters.

Yes but they - and others - would all be regular top of the table SL first teamers if Leeds had held their hands more.

Ali Lauatiti would go in there easily.We let him go too soon, he would still probably get on our bench.

Out of the rest there i would say only Amor,Carvell and Scruton are players who have improved or we should have kept in hindsight.And maybe Gale.

As a Bulls fan I am amazed at the improvement in Tom who was nothing more than a plodder who wasn't capable of playing enough minutes. I think he has gone perfectly well in what has been an impressive showing from our four props. Any super league club would want the twins in there 17.

Fully Agree.With the freakish rise of Sam and explosion onto the scene of George, Perhaps expecting the same from Tom is a bit harsh.He is doing just fine imo.He is near the top as far as metres made go for England and has had a steady series.He is 21/22 which is still very young for prop and has only just completed his first full year in the first grade side.He will perhaps never quite reach the levels of Sam and George but should improve more in the coming seasons to be a top prop.

Re-signed with Wigan today. 3 year deal.

Pete Smith just confirmed on Twitter Leeds were keen to recruit him.

Pete Smith "confirms" whatever BS Hetherington feeds him. He's like any local paper sports reporter, entirely dependent on toeing the party line.

Peter Smith isn't the most reliable source. But if Wigan have exercised their apparent right of first refusal, it really doesn't matter whether Leeds wanted him or not.

Has he aye?

Far better options out there I feel. No better than what we have.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/30002557

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/30002557

Glass Shoulder

played Leeds off to get a better deal with the Pie Eaters - Look out for another long term injury coming to a small town in Lancashire soon !

If this means Scott Taylor becomes available then we should be trying very hard to sign him.

Seem very certain he is keen to go live in Hull and signing for them when I last looked on their board.

No accounting for taste!!

Lee Mossop won't be 'the one that got away'.

But Larne Patricks style of play, could be.

Bear in mind he currently resides in Wigan.

Bullet dodged there. 3 games for Parra and back with tail between legs. FML.

Even so hull is a significant downgrade

Hmmm possibly. But only in the same way that sex with Ray French is probably a downgrade on sex with Dawn French. Let's face it, no-one in their right mind would do either.

Very good example