Thoughts??

Good for him

Good for him. Away from the silliness of Salford. Good signing for Wakefield too. He was an excellent and reliable player for us.

Yet another example of the usual career path of players who leave Leeds. With a few notable exceptions (Mozza springs to mind) players who leave HQ rarely go on to better things.

I wish him well all the same.

I agree they get their heads turned by greedy agents whose sole motive money.
I bet BJB misses the Rhinos more than the Rhinos have missed him

Another to follow in the footsteps of Calderwood.
Anyone know what he's doing nowadays? Wikipedia says Workington RLFC?

I wonder if Brian smith has told him he'll get chance at full back

To be fair to BJB he was out of the starting 13 picture unlike Calderwood who could've remained a starter. Irony is Briscoe then suffers a serious injury and misses a load of this season.

No problem him leaving Leeds to seek first team opportunities, he could've just been wiser in what team he chose to join in hindsight but then again he isn't the only one who will have thought Salford could've eventually started to move in the right direction. Still at least he's gotten out of that circus quickly and if he goes well at Wakey he could make his way back up to a better team.

Wakefield, the home of would-be Leeds fullbacks. BJB, Smith, Tansey.

I might adopt Wakey as my second team, mainly because in many way they are our second team.

Did Bailey sign for Wakey?

Although Peacock's move to HKR might be giving them competition now with Clarkson and Minns going and Mulhern rumoured for a loan move there.

How times change. I remember years ago watching an old Scrumdown compilation of tries, and every time we saw one from an ex-Leeds player and someone asked 'Where did he end up?', the answer nearly always seemed to be 'Went to Halifax'.

It really embarrasses me when fans say "no one ever leaves us & does better" the fact is we are a top club & these boys leave because they're good but not quite good enough to oust our 1st teamers or they just want more game time so obviously they won't move on to do better or they'd be in our 1st team!!!

Things haven't changed that much. Their 2015 squad includes Scott Murrell, Ben Kaye, Luke Ambler, Dane Manning and Richard Moore - all former Leeds players.

Playing for Farnley in the Pennine league.

I liked the lad. He was a decent player but our third best winger and when given an extended run at full back (which I always thought was his natural position) he didn't look great.

Made sense to seek an established first team place but, as has been said, he would, ironically, have played a similar amount of games at Leeds as he did at Salford this year, with the injuries to the threequarters.

And Stanningley in the Summer

regarding calders,he is playing for stanningley in the summer conference and has also been coaching the junior sides up there too.
mark has hit a bit of hard times since his super league days tbf and now works on the building sites to earn his money

whilst he was at the rhinos he had a lot of hanger's on and they certainly used him for what they could get by being his mate,those so called pals have long since avoided his company now that he hasn't got the perks to hand them all to keep them sweet
but that's calders for you, he's a smashing lad but a bit guillable and it was no surprise to me that he fell for david howes' sweet talking skills and the fact that he could get them both some more money!!
this was the reason he left the rhinos,mark was happy with his offer of a new contract but he was told that the club would never let him go

I agree with your point but not sure why it embarrasses you.

As for BJB, good on him for breaking out of his comfort zone to get regular game time but I think he will be a bit disappointed to end up at wakey. Think he could have done a job for a team a little higher up. Hull was interested apparently or he could have been a good fit for Warrington (better than Orms and Penny).

Wakey seems a step up from Salford, should get plenty of games in his best position and if it works out he can either extend or move to a bigger club. Good luck to the lad, sad to see some who can't accept that leaving Leeds could ever work out for anyone.

Apologies, embarassing was probably the wrong word to use. I just think these lads should be given credit for moving on if chances are limited & it's quite difficult to move on to better things if you're leaving a top team so the "never hit the heights after leaving" shouldn't be thrown at them. It's a very short career.

Great signing for Wakey, and I'm glad BJB is out of that circus at Salford. Hopefully he can stay injury free and score a bag full of tries. He's got the ability. I don't blame him for leaving Leeds. He was 25 and was 2nd choice in all positions after we signed Briscoe. Good luck to the lad

Chuffed for BJB, Nice guy I liked him always tried 100% technically not the best but like so many Leeds players played through his heart and therefore punched above his weight. I would have been happy for him to take over when Biscoe was injured but on the positive side Handley got a good work out.

I hope Wakey is a happy hunting ground for BJB