Massive rumour at the moment that burrow is about to join the bulls!

At the moment nothing would suprise me!

Right - so Leeds are already facing the start of the season with one of their starting halves missing, and are going to allow the other to move to another SL club?

Besides which, where are Bradford going to find the cash to sign a contracted player from anywhere - have they found a stash of unreturned pop bottles in a cupboard somewhere they can claim the deposits back on?

doubtful, but wouldn't be surprised if it happened.

Burrow is contracted up to 2013

Where can bulls get the money from????? ermmmm matt orford??????? compensation for releasing him i think would just about buy rob burrow out... dont you think??

I must confess I heard this rumour a few weeks back and thought it to be utter bollox but it's funny how this has re-surfaced.

Mind you Bulls1989 has got form for talking cobblers.

You've as much chance of getting a large sum of compensation for Orford as Leeds had of getting one for Eastwood.

I don't think Burrow is for sale for one thing and another is you lot need all the ££££ you can get hence the season tickets for 10 bob and a packet of wine gums.

It's funny how quickly things can happen when there's a coaching transition. I remember 2005/6. Our side changed radically and we lost some senior players out of the blue.

This could happen at Leeds.

True but i think we are due 2/3 to go at the end of the 2011 season anyway so our transitional period is ongoing.

I doubt it tbh not with a man like Hetherington in charge, Leeds are a well run club and I doubt a change of coach will mean a massive overhaul of the playing staff.

Leeds will not let Burrow walk away without a tranfer fee. I wouldn't mind Burrow leaving just as long as GH brought in a quality scrum half to replace him. We are already have the prospect of starting the season without McGuire, if Burrow left too then Leeds would be well up shiz creak! Which with a man like GH in charge wouldn't happen!

Is it just me or is it Burrow/McGuire's testimonial this year??

There will be a massive overhaul of the playing staff over the next two years however IMO, and McDermott's biggest challenge is going to be managing it without a drop in results.

Over that period, Leeds are going to need to find replacements for the likes of Webb, Senior, Peacock, Leuluai, Cross, Lauitiiit and Buderus. How well that transition is handled could be the yardstick by which McDermott is measured rather than necessarily the winning of trophies.

Plannig to replace Cross before he has even played a game fills me with so much confidence. But you're bang on.

Burrow out,Rangi Chase in.

JP is a big friend of brian Mac from what i have read in his book.
Iwonder if JP could take the assistant coaching duties

I would hope Leeds have learned their lesson in terms of providing "jobs for the boys" among the coaching staff.

We do have some replacements coming through the youth system for some of those players:
Webb --- Jones Bishop
Senior --- Watkins
Buderus --- McShane/Hood
Peacock --- Amor??
Lauatiiti --- Pitts??
With the likes of Hardaker, Ambler, Stewart, Singleton, Casey, Burgess (if he stays), Ablett, Clarkson all coming through or out of the 17.
But it will be a tough ride for him.

So we are fairly covered in the youth system.

Jones-Bishop, Watkins, Hardaker, Ward, Ambler, Amor, Hood, Clarkson could be a pretty good generation. McDermott seems to be getting the thankless Darryl Powell job of blooding them, although the existing, experienced players are significantly better than the ones Powell inherited so *if he is any good as a head coach* Leeds should still challenge for titles in the interim.

Hmmm.......NO!

He looks slightly above par, in a very below par side. He has a few highlight games per season. That's pretty much it.

Do you have any doubt that Kevin Sinfield will be the Leeds coach literally the minute he retires from playing?

Burrow won't depart unless they agree terms with Thomas Leuluai.

Let him go IMO.

He's distinctly average these days. It prefer to see a 1,6,7 combo of BJB, Webb, McGuire next year. Obviously for the start it'd BJB, Sinny, Webb. Iv been saying for the last year and a half that Burrow will never be the player he was due to the fact he has no idea how to open a set defence. He was effective before all the clubs learned how to defend in a set line when it was a lot more broken play.