Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 7:22 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

Theres room for 2 good signings. As above JJB Golding Ferres are going. Ferres is on a good salary he was an England player when he signed. Ablett will also go.

So theres plenty of cap space released there. A couple of youngsters promoted plus 2 good quality signings will do very nicely.

No overseas quota left where are we going to get 2 quality signings from?

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 8:06 am  

fanstanningley wrote:

No overseas quota left where are we going to get 2 quality signings from?

That's what I was thinking

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 8:15 am  

fanstanningley wrote:

No overseas quota left where are we going to get 2 quality signings from?

James Graham ? Sezer ? (if cuthbo or peteru go). Luke Gale ? Theres plenty of potential UK gems to be found around SL also

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 8:24 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

James Graham ? Sezer ? (if cuthbo or peteru go). Luke Gale ? Theres plenty of potential UK gems to be found around SL also

Cuthbo has been one of our better players for a few months now I don't think he will leave and will see out his contract

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 8:48 am  

christopher wrote:

Cuthbo has been one of our better players for a few months now I don't think he will leave and will see out his contract

The club needs to have a conversation with Cuthbo. He's been way off form for quite some time now, and then suddenly is pulling out the kind of performances we saw when he first joined.

I suspect the reason is a combination of injuries clearing up, and some new direction from the coaching staff. On current form yes you might keep him until his contract runs out (which was too long again).

Peteru is probably the hindmost overseas player at the moment, but he had a bad injury and was in decent form before that.

What I wouldn't want Leeds to do is pull back from some of the tough calls that are needed, because the team seems to have collectively got its bum into gear.

Prop and a 7 for me still as a minimum for 2020, and both need to be very good players not squad fillers.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:26 am  

Trebor1 wrote:

Theres room for 2 good signings. As above JJB Golding Ferres are going. Ferres is on a good salary he was an England player when he signed. Ablett will also go.

So theres plenty of cap space released there. A couple of youngsters promoted plus 2 good quality signings will do very nicely.

Some of the salary from Ferres, Golding, JJB etc will be going to existing players. We've recently signed long-term deals with Newman, Handley and Walker - those contracts will have salary increases budgeted in.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:30 am  

bramleyrhino wrote:

Some of the salary from Ferres, Golding, JJB etc will be going to existing players. We've recently signed long-term deals with Newman, Handley and Walker - those contracts will have salary increases budgeted in.

They can't reappropriate Golding wages, he hasn't left!

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:41 am  

Our cap has been horribly mismanaged if we're spending the same as sts and co, we're miles off the top few squads. That means some seriously average players are being horrendously overpaid. Particularly when you add the marquee allowance x 2.

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:57 am  

If we get the X3 marquee allowance it would help but it’s a short term fix. To be fair, we haven’t been lucky with form and injuries to some top-paid players for a number of years now. Our two England players both been knackered by injury - that’s not the club’s fault.

Having said that there has been plenty of recruitment that IS.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: New Head Coach - who's it going to be? : Mon Aug 12, 2019 1:36 pm  

Yes, but it also hasn't helped having to recruit from a point of weakness either for the past couple of years.

After 2016 our stock fell through the floor, 2017 we went with basically the 2016 squad to prove that 2016 was a blip and that GF win papered over the cracks, 2018 we started even further behind as even more of our strike players retired / moved on and the cracks became chasms, before you know it here we are in 2019 only now recruiting quality but having to overpay for players as we cant offer them the GF's , CC's and playoffs.