Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:21 am  

I mean that respectfully.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 11:36 am  

Lprhino wrote:

Exactly this! Some of the posters on here are pathetic. The negativity and arrogance isn’t the club, it is the fans. We should be signing this player, we should be spending this. Maybe players don’t want to come here? Maybe they see fans who moan and scream when players have poor form and see a club with general discontent around it, flowing from fans.

Maybe players want exit clauses which we aren’t prepared to give. Maybe players are settled in a particular area and have a young family and don’t want to move. This is not football manager, we don’t get to just pick who we want and sign them. However, so much easier to say well we should be ashamed he hasn’t come to us and picked somewhere else over us. If we were in for him and made a good offer and he picked another club, why would we be ashamed. I for one wouldn’t want a player to come here unless they really wanted to come here. We have done the sign big names, pay big money game and it didn’t work at all did it.

Supporting a club is about ups and downs, you don’t leave early, you don’t stop attending games. Really some of it on here is an embarrassment and why I imagine a lot of posters or readers don’t bother getting that involved.

Really, so the club havent massively mismanaged the last 6 years leading to no top 4 finishes and dreadful recruitment that's understandably lead to fans frustration. Look, if this off season is the turning point and they do eventually get it right (contrary to current indication) then yeah, we'll all put our hands up. I'm responding to what's going on currently and has for years. It's not arrogance to say a team with all the riches in the size of the city of Leeds should be doing much better on the pitch and being able to recruit quality players. And it's the fans fault players don't want to come?! Get real theres been a small handful of people showing their dissatisfaction at games amongst 15k crowds.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:20 pm  

Seth wrote:

Really, so the club havent massively mismanaged the last 6 years leading to no top 4 finishes and dreadful recruitment that's understandably lead to fans frustration. Look, if this off season is the turning point and they do eventually get it right (contrary to current indication) then yeah, we'll all put our hands up. I'm responding to what's going on currently and has for years. It's not arrogance to say a team with all the riches in the size of the city of Leeds should be doing much better on the pitch and being able to recruit quality players. And it's the fans fault players don't want to come?! Get real theres been a small handful of people showing their dissatisfaction at games amongst 15k crowds.

Exactly seth, the running/management of the first team has been shambolic for years, absolutely nothing about the way we operate suggests we want to be the best team in superleague.

If we do actually want to be the best team in Superleague, then the incompetence in trying to achieve that goal is staggering.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:29 pm  

We need to be patient for now. I'm sure the club appreciate the dissatisfaction among the fanbase re: signings, and understandably they want to get it right this time more than ever.

Even when the full squad is announced it is hard to judge how they will go during the season. We've had plenty of false dawns built upon what seemed to be good recruitment in recent seasons (e.g. by Agar, and even this year the squad seemed to be improved at the start of the season). Leeds often go better when they are completely written off (how many of the GF wins of the Golden Generation were actually predicted by the RL media and Leeds fans?). So as much as I'd like us to announce a raft of exciting big names it might be a better sign if we recruit a few more that go under the radar...

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:38 pm  

Adam O'Brien has left Hudds.

Good experienced #9 pickup maybe?

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:40 pm  

Simmo71 wrote:

Got to love the ambition at Leigh.
Positive vibes all around the club.
Tbf you've got to admire the ambition at Wire - it just hasn't worked out.

The stench from Leeds is one of arrogance.
Living in the past.
We think players are queueing up to come here because of our history.
Talking to fans from other clubs we are becoming more of an embarrassment and less relevant.

Here’s some good advice that will stand you in good stead. “don’t listen too much to fans off other clubs”

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:40 pm  

https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1198881077?-60018:2393 Not saying this is going to happen or saying it would be the right signing, but wouldn't be shocked if O'brien has signed for us given Rohan is trying to find a more experienced hooker to mentor Jarred O'Connor & Corey Johnson. He fits the bill of our recent signing soild and steady but we have to be aiming higher as a club to get top talent in, suppose we'll have to wait and see.

https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1198881077?-60018:2393 Not saying this is going to happen or saying it would be the right signing, but wouldn't be shocked if O'brien has signed for us given Rohan is trying to find a more experienced hooker to mentor Jarred O'Connor & Corey Johnson. He fits the bill of our recent signing soild and steady but we have to be aiming higher as a club to get top talent in, suppose we'll have to wait and see.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:41 pm  

Jesus, theres a reason why he's left a poor giants team.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:43 pm  

If Croft signs for Leigh (big rumours) there is going to be a meltdown on here and social media.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:44 pm  

another bang average player. this is what happens when you leave your recruitment to the last minute.
you get the dregs