Leeds and David Furner after him according to Serious About RL. Please no!!!

More or less a done deal,both parties have been speaking with each other for a month or so now

Don’t know if it’ll be Fifita but with Leeds offloading Mullally to Toronto along with Walters and Ormondroyd to Fev the other week we probably do now have cap space to finally get the prop in we’ve wanted and needed so someone will most likely be coming to Headingley soon.

Not happy about this - if its true. Big time.


..........I ordered one of those nice warm-up tops from the Club with his name on the back!

And you are?

No idea if to true but Trinity have no reason to let him go. Last year of contract so Leeds have no reason to pay a fee. Would be a backwards step particularly with Huby and Pauli out injured.

I hope it's not true, but I don't begrudge him it. He's given his all when here, but his career his short and will want to win something. However well we are going, and however bad Leeds have been at times, there is still more of a chance of a big day with Leeds than us. And he could be the X Factor for them, something a bit different.

I thought Tom would go there when Ryan Hall went.

The team will carry on. It always does. Solomona went after our relegation fight in 2006 but we had our most successful top flight times before Chester arrived in the two or three years afterwards.

My suspicion it would be for next year, although if we were going to lose him anyway but for free, why not take some cash and a player or two? It makes financial sense.

The interesting thing would be whether he would be happier there. From his instagram feed, he socialises with all the other Wakey players. I know he stll can, because he'd be in the same area, but not quite the same when he wouldn't work and train with them anymore.

All this reads like an inevitability that Leeds will take someone from us, an itch they must scratch every few years, hoped those days were gone.

I have no idea whether it's inevitable or not. I have no contacts in the club. I'm just rationalising potential bad news. I'm the sort of guy who thinks that at least with global warming I'll be able to grow my own oranges.

But I understand the desire of players to win something. I know it becomes a vicious circle, because if good players leave, our own chances diminish, but on the other hand it has to be accepted that Leeds have the resources to build a better squad.

We'll know by the end of the day. DaddyCool will either rubbish it or stay silent.

Hope not.

Surely Mullally going to Wolfpack make it LESS likely - Wakey would have probably wanted him as part of the deal??

I’m sure he’d make new mates at Leeds IF he were to move and still be able to socialise with his old teammates....just like any player who moves clubs.

The whole story could potentially just be his agent putting out rumours seen as though Fifita is in his final year of his contract and knows contract talks should be happening/coming up and trying to put pressure on for a new improved deal at Wakefield. And Leeds is an easy and obvious club to link players to at the moment.

I thought the days of Wakefield being a selling club were over.

I’m not getting downbeat over a an article from a bit part website. Anyhow everyone knows he’s signing for wire isn’t he?......

1.What facts are you aware of that means any different?
2.Every club is a selling club if the price is right.
3.Opening post should read: Every club in Super League interested in David Fifita.

If he does go I can see MC getting a return if not a fee then a player at least on loan for the rest of the season. Leeds been shopping Parcell and Cuthbertson around recently. One of those on a reduced deal similar to that miller signed after leaving hull might be worthwhile

Doubt either Parcell or Cuthbertson will leave mid season now. Think they along with Garbutt were offered the chance to go in the offseason to free up cap space and whichever went first would mean the others stayed.

We have a winner.

That said we have to offer him that contract.

Is Fifita a quota player or non fed trained? If it's the former, we couldn't fit him in anyway unless we moved someone else on.

His Tongan heritage means he counts as a Kolpack so is non-fed. Anyway, it's a non-story.


Matthew Shaw
‏ @M_Shaw1
25m25 minutes ago

RE the Fifita rumours, reliably informed there's no substance in it. Club, player and his representatives all surprised to see that earlier today.

I doubt his representative was!!!!!

It's easy to act surprised!

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if one time a representative said “yeah I know where that rumour came from...wink wink”

Losing Big Dave would be gutting hes a fan favourite and our best prop! Would be a disaster. Cant we just swap Randell for Parcel.

So if he's in contract now. How come they can talk to him?

Im sure they are interested. Why wouldn't they be.
They could bolster their pack with another 3-4 of our pack as theirs is pretty weak.
Whether we sell any is another thing altogether.