Well this topic has certainly veered from its original, but anyway .....

I think we all know the nick / luke swap is total rubbish , and like previously stated this is 100% not happening .



In respect of the better player i would say nick every-time, the only attribute i would take from luke is his off-load.
Defense we are all in aggreeance that nick is better, ( especially in his reading of defense)

I haven't read stats from last year but surely there done is a ratio of time spent on a pitch or ball carries= meters gained , if there not and there just game = meters made, then i would find it hard to believe that lukes are greater than nicks purely because nick plays much longer than luke does.
If they are done in an accurate manner , i would still take nick going forward purely because of how well he finds the floor and gets a quick play-the-ball , that is worth more than an extra 2m.

Another thing that nobody has mentioned are the amount of errors luke makes , especially in big games or in good areas of the field .

In regards to leeds choosing luke over nick, leeds decided to re-sign bailey on a 3 year deal ( i think) and with his rise, leeds offered nick less. So really leeds chose bailey over nick!!!

Money was a factor - Scruton wasn't high in the pecking order at Leeds at the time, so moving to Bradford allowed him to take up a bigger contract BUT also get selected in the starting 13. At the time it looked like Burgess was the better prospect, mainly for his offload game.

In 2010 terms Scruton is definitely the better player, in part due to Burgess being unable to sort his defence out which has led to him being selected less frequently. I rate Scruton but think he could do with concentrating on his game more instead of looking for the big hit, although he did seem to improve with this in his second season with Bradford.

Well I hope we try to get him tied down to a 3 year contract.

Along with L'Estrange who, according to the LE wants to stay as long as possible.

scrutes said a while back in an interview that he wanted to earn a new contract, And Kearney said similar to l'estrange that he'd like to stay beyond next year. I'd say those 3 have to be our key targets with regards to getting them re-signed before anti-tampering deadline. Although given we already have diskin on a long deal, l'estrange may depend on how o'brien develops

Oxymoron alert: "Anti-tampering deadline".

yeah I know its a farce adey and everyone pretty much ignores it. What I meant was those are the players we should be looking at signing up as priorities and then seeing what money we have left to sign the other ooc players.