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"Keith Senior, Kylie Leuluai, Scott Donald, Matt Diskin, Danny Buderus, Ali Lauitiiti and Ryan Bailey were all due out of contract at the end of the current campaign but have now put pen to paper on new deals."

well done darth

good idea

There is going to be some despairing soles on here next season.

I hope to god this side pulls at least one of he trophy's out of the bag this season.

Are you having a competition with Warrington as to who will have oldest squad in Superleague next season?

Great news Scotty, Buderus, Kylie, Keith and Bailey.

Amazed Diskin signed given that Buderus is staying.

So wheres McShane going on loan next year?

Harlequins or Hull is the usual.

given what Sinfield said at the end of last years Grand Final would anyone seriously want to leave this team?

I'm happy to trust the powers that run our great club but i'm surprised all OOC have been re-signed tbh.

And, as usual, there'll be some doom mongers who despite having their pants pulled down year after year after year, will still predict doom and gloom.

Good new's, nothing beats a settled squad.

How about TVOC and the "quota"?

I have to say though, I hope Buderus is on much reduced terms given the "value" he's provided on his first deal.

The Management at Leeds have managed to assemble a squad that has won Super League 4 times since 2004, and each of the last 3 years.
If they think the current squad are good enough to play next year, who am I to disagree.

Here's to a 4th and 5th Grand Final success

If all of them but Bailey are not on reduced terms, then it would be really poor management from Hetherington.

With regards Kylie, I thought he had another year anyway and was not out of contract?

I could have sworn Luke Burgess' contract was due to run out at the end of the season?

<waits to be proved wrong by our resident statto>

How long are the new deals?

I would suspect from reading the article on the YEP site that they are on 1 year deals? I would expect that to be the case with Donald, Ali, Kylie, Buderus and maybe Diskin

I have mixed views about it really. Firstly where it leaves McShane and secondly Ali.

From what we've seen of McShane over the last few weeks he looks ready for first team rugby next year. I just hope he is happy been loaned out.

It must be a risk giving Ali an extension. It would be interesting if tvoc could get some stats on the amount of games he has played over the last 2 years. I hope he proves me wrong but I have a feeling that could be a bad call.

However its an absolute testament to everyone at the rhinos from GH, to the coaching staff, to the players that this special group of players will remain together for yet another year.

I wonder if any of the players have taken pay cuts also? I would have though Buderus would not be getting the £3 billion a year he is on now

Key quote:

""Our policy is always to review the squad at the end of each season, which is what we have done for a number of years regardless of the success or failure of the previous campaign. We will continue with this policy but safe in the knowledge that our own world class talent is contracted to us for next season.

In the current global market place and with more and more clubs spending to the full salary cap limit, the challenge of attracting and signing world class players is becoming tougher and tougher. Therefore, it makes sense to secure the very best players before looking elsewhere."

So, basically, this is a smart move, IMO, tying up our entire squad pending re-evaluation at the end of the season. If we want to keep the players, other clubs can't get at them; if we don't, they can be used as tradebait for other in-contract players. As it stands, I imagine we're spending the full cap.

I wouldn't be unhappy at all starting next season with this squad though. After all, everyone at the start of the season was saying this is best Rhinos squad ever, and they haven't had a chance to show their full strength with the amount of injuries there have been.

(I wouldn't mind a top prop for Burgess/Kirke though. This might happen under the cap if Webb goes to the darkside as rumoured. Although this would be a big loss to the team there would be no need for a fullback replacement with BJB and Smith in the squad)

Does Senior get an pass from training on a Thursday so he can collect his pension?

He is still one of the best centres in SL. Would you like to see Senior lining up against us next year and who would you have lining up against him?

Is that a sarcastic clap?

I don't really know where we can strengthen the current squad. All i can think is creating a bit of competition in the half backs if there is nothing coming through the academy ranks just yet. other than that i think the league would look a lot different had we not had the slightly indifferent start and the spate of injuries