Weve turned down £1/2m from Leeds for connor according to league Express. Let's hope they go away and connor doesn't get his head turned . I expect they'd have made him à marquee player with a fee like that

Apparently they’ve moved on and looked elsewhere, good news .

Don't think he would fancy Leeds. If he was to move on then he can do so much better than Leeds.

We’ve used up our 2 marquee spots on Hurrell and Merrin so can’t be a marquee player unless one of those leave, although their has been rumours about Merrin returning to the NRL.

So is that Trueman and Connor that they've gone for now?

I want Abbie Dewhurst but life's a ter.

Yes please, come rain or shine.

Can't imagine a team in SL that wouldn't want him. International and a game breaker. Great that LE confirms Leeds have moved on.

agreed - it will be the NRL, Bennett's mob might be looking at a half next season to partner reynolds

Can do better than Leeds. Already is.

NRL eventually I’d say

He’ll go to the NRL if he leaves can’t see the point of signing for another SL club if he has ambitions

I honestly think this may be his last season with us, if were lucky then he'll stay next season too but it wont be long before he heads down under.

So Kelly may need to be kept on

AP would sell him to Grudgell before Uncle Gawwy

Why would Bennett be looking at a half next season when he has Cody Walker playing in the best form of his career and established at No6 partnering Reynolds?

If Connor came to Souths he would play centre where Bennett plays him for England/Gt Britain. Note that Bennett has said that his preferred half backs for the upcoming Gt Britain tour are Williams / Widdop.

Incidentally today I will be at the Parramatta v Wests match at the opening of the new 30,000 capacity stadium in Sydney's west. The match has been sold out for weeks.

I'm not sure how true this story is, I'm sure Leeds were interested in Connor (Who wouldn't be), but no way would they bid 500k and I'm not sure we would turn it down, that's an insane amount of money for any rugby league player in the world.

I just hope we can keep Connor for as long as possible, as IMO he is one of the best players in SL, if anywhere I hope he goes to the NRL as I'd hate to play against him.

The thing is, what would we do with that money? We aren't desperate for cash, and it's not like football where we will go out and buy 2 or 3 players with the money. The fans would be up in arms if we sold him and didn't reinvest. It could go on the wages of a couple of marquee players, but are either of them likely to be as good as Connor? And then in a couple of years when those marquees have been and gone and Connor has just won the man of steel, then what?

He's our most marketable player and the one that we are trying to build a team around (along with Sneyd). Imo it's not even close to being enough.

I expect we will lose him to the NRL one day. But until then we should do everything to keep him.

To keep Jake , the Club will have to match his ambition and consistently, win and challenge for trophies.
We were discussing him on Friday. I think he will end up in the NRL . If the overatted Williams can get a NRL contract, I’m sure Connor can !

Not sure how true this is as I couldn’t see AP rejecting £500K for any player we have, as Dave K said it’s an insane amount of money for RL.

IF Leeds want to start throwing that sort of money around id guess Salford would sell Hastings for half that amount and have plenty left to buy a couple of forwards.

I couldn’t bear Jake leaving
If we sold him I’d feel worse than when we ‘sold Vaikona ‘
Selling Jake means we put our ambition cue on the rack
Hopefully AP has enough ambition and cash to keep him

Why would they not bid £500k?

When Wigan were in deep trouble in 2006 that spent that amount on Stuart Fielden. Now Fielden was probably the best prop in SL at the time, but hardly the creative player (or goal kicker for that matter) that Connor is. Leeds also have pots of cash, so it’s well within their resources.

13 years down the line, £500k would be the opening bid. If he were to be sold it I think the figure should be closer to £750k. But unless we are in financial disarray, what do you do with that money?

Leeds don't spend, in fact it's rare we see transfer fees anywhere near that in modern day RL.

I'm not saying we sell him, but that's a lot of cash to turn down, I'm shocked if Leeds bid thst much, but that they could probably sign Hastings, Josh Jones' another SL forward with that money.

I'm not sure I believe the story or certainly the amount bid

Well we've won 2 of the last 6 major trophies. Not too many in front of us on that measure.

Can we have a central contract for Jake please, do they still exist, Watkins Lomax etc,

I'm certain it is a BS story, as good as Jake CAN be, he's hardly consistent, certainly not for half a million.

There hasn't been an offer, just an enquiry which Hull dismissed out of hand.