Great post. All joking aside he could well become a very good signing in a year or two

....and Kirke keeps marching on

Kirke goes marching on,yes thats the annoying bloody thing. Good luck to Jay anyway

The fact that Leeds were in for Ellis (even if they weren't devastated not to get him) suggests they're interested in upgrading their back row. If Pitts is replaced by, say, Olivier Elima, then it would be a good upgrade for Leeds.

Its not something I'll lose any sleep over. Much as its nice to have depth in our squad, realistically it was going to take a couple of injuries for him to get significant game time at Leeds, so best that he moves on. Hopefully he will continue to develop at Hull and prove us wrong. I guess we get some more space in the squad and one of the youngsters may get a better chance than before.

Not sure why this would be annoying.

Kirke should be going and Pitts staying, thats whats annoying

Pitts had good potential. He was struggling to cement a place in our team and was a squad player. Good athletic player could go either way and bite us or not.

Good luck to him. He is a good athletic player with a good engine and gets through some work. Would think he will need to bulk up alot to prop. Seems to get pushed back easy

Of course you're sure

... No need to play dumb.

So far in the pecking order Kirke has seen off Ambler, Amor and now Pitts..... Singleton is prob not far away from being next.

.... And so Kirke keeps marching on ... Yippee

Suprised we've let him go mid season... i wonder if we have someone coming in on the horizon...

Thought he made a good contribution in the Cas game, and looked to offer a bit more dynamism than Clarkson and Kirke at this stage of the season. So I am a bit disappointed about this. That said he's not in the category of Watkins, Hardaker or Ward...

The timing suggests one of two things - a) this is reconciliation after the Briscoe affair - or b) Leeds need the cap space to pick some of the more promising bones out of Bradford's (?impending) carcass.

You mean like last season when Burgess and Cross departed ?

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I think this is the spot on post in everything.

lol true

Leeds CEO takes an opportunity to get the wage bill down ..... shocked.

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To clear up any confusion from earlier posts Jay Pitts made 27 1st grade appearances for Leeds in total, Garreth Carvell made 4.

I liked the prospect of Pitts but he was down as 6th choice in the 2nd row so at 22, as a player, you would be wanting game time and good luck to him at Hull. Im sure he will be a solid player in time for them.

Someone mentioned Elima earlier in this thread. Harrigan likes this and if that did come off would be happy. The most underrated second row forward in the league and for me, is in the top 10 playing in England.

He does. He has a role to do and he does it. Pitts may not have been happy with his role, and as a relative youngster I would say he needs to be playing. Fair play to him.

Surprised no-one has ever come in for Kirke.

He makes a lot of ground and scores a few tries, the problem with him is is that he's a full on penalty machine!

In 2009 he was the most penalised player in the competition, in 2010 he was 4th!

Could do without players like him when we already have our fair share of hot heads.

With Leeds' mixed gender dance force shaking their relative bits they could make a move for Super Leagues premier Gentle Giant.

That can be sorted out though and I know you can look at his age and think, well if it hasn't been sorted by now, it never will, but McDermott seems more of a disciplinarian than the other coaches he has had. To me though, it's his work rate in attack and defence. He is none stop when he is on the field and I think this may be where the penalties stem from. He just gets a bit carried away. Maybe in a team full of star 2nd row forwards he wouldn't have to try and carry us like he does the Bulls.

Sorry to see Pitts go I saw a lot of potential in him but he hasn't had the game time to push for a place. The coach sees more of him than me so lets hope he's got it right, opens up a door for others though. Good luck to you Jay

Elima is a perfect example of Mr Field's BDL Syndrome.

I don't believe he concedes penalties and gets himself suspended because he's trying too hard, I believe it's because he doesn't engage brain before swinging arm. See his late hit on Gaskell(?) the other week for an example.

He's a poor man's Eric Anselme.

Elima is a pretty good player once you ignore all the discipline problems.

Jamie Thackray is a great player if you ignore his off field issues, his poor ball retention, his hot and cold form, his track record of never staying too long at any single club, his attitude and his age