Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:25 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Watkins is miles ahead of the other English centres. He's fully recovered from his serious injury now.
I thought it was incredible how little faith the club and fans showed in him, yet seem to have endless patience with Ward et al...
Odd one

At his peak he was but not anymore

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:52 pm  

He's only 29.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:11 am  

People seem to love to say Watkins is part it, but as others have said he's not even 30.
Watching him now it's clear he's the best Centre in SL by a mile. He'll be the first name in England team sheet. How many international standard players do we have at Leeds?

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:25 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

He's only 29.

Yep aware of his age but he’s not played at his peak for a long time. He was fantastic and I hope he re discovers it.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:29 pm  

Will be interesting to see how he sees out his career. Will he return to his best or slowly / quickly fizzle out of the game.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:45 pm  

I always rated Watkins highly but never thought he was as good as others did.For me we were right to move him on and use the considerable amount of cap space to improve in other areas.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:09 pm  

bdrhino wrote:

I always rated Watkins highly but never thought he was as good as others did.For me we were right to move him on and use the considerable amount of cap space to improve in other areas.

How have we used Watkin's salary to improve the team. Are we really any better now?

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Wed Sep 23, 2020 2:14 pm  

ant1 wrote:

How have we used Watkin's salary to improve the team. Are we really any better now?

Better than when he left, yes we are.

Not that I'm putting that down to him leaving mind.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Sep 24, 2020 6:50 am  

ant1 wrote:

How have we used Watkin's salary to improve the team. Are we really any better now?

No better at centre, that's for sure. We're paying Hurrell more than Watkins was on!

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:07 am  

Shabino wrote:

No better at centre, that's for sure. We're paying Hurrell more than Watkins was on!

But we had both Hurrel and Watkins in the same squad.

Harry Newman replaced Watkins.

Who do you think represents better value for Money, Newman or Watkins (who would now be on marquee status?)