Lets not kid ourselves.

He has been all those things in the past, but in the last 2 seasons at best he's been average. The reason he has found himself in the reserves is because he hasn't performed good enough and BJB, Hardaker, and Watkins have all overtaken him.

The ball is in his court. This is a good opportunity for him, and if he takes it and regains some form he might have a future at Leeds. If not, I think McDermott will have finally lost patience with him, he put his confidence in him at the start of the year and for a period in the middle by playing him ahead of BJB, but put simply, Smith was awfull.

Yes , I too interpreted Smith meaning that he was not too concerned about the position he played in as long as he was playing.

Smiths been there and done it,this weekend isnt a game to blood youngsters, weve tryed that as a club in the past in situations only for those players thrown in to only vanish soon afterwards. matty wray, mark barlow david white 3 examples from the patched up side that played the bulls all thoses years ago.

Danny Cowling is still injured from the broken finger he suffered a few weeks ago, so wouldnt be elligable for slection yet. Lucas Walshaw is clearly being moulded into a second rower, and given his size who can argue, so again i think he wouldnt be a good choice for centre currently. Aside from them two, who else of our youngsters could play centre? possibly Liam Kay but against the likes of Carmont?! it would be a bit unfair... aside from the fact he is a 6 or 1, not a centre.

seems a good signing given current circumstances

Lee Smith is exactly the type of player we need and RA is to be congratulated on acquiring his services. He's young and done everything- just needs to kick on from here!