Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:09 am  

I honestly hate being a Leeds fan at these times, I’ve heard it all before. Our focus on signing Prior who is a has been and not a great has been, he wants brig money and should be nowhere near marquee status. Leeming will do a job. The Merrin saga just stinks. We should be looking at huge names not. Also we should definitely command a fee he had his chance am sorry but we would have changed our focus am sure if that was the case in him not coming back. This situation is just so underwhelming. Also Gale should be the Captain until Ward has managed to string a few games together without getting injured and I think Gale has some good leadership qualities!

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:19 am  

Calling for Gale to be captain ahead of Ward on his injury record is a touch ironic...

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:20 am  

I think this whole situation stinks.. The longer we let this rumble on the more it will have a detriment to our 2020 season. I was happy when I discovered that Merrin had agreed to return after he was unable to make his move during the agreed date set by the club. I was also happy with the potential prior signing if we could work him into our cap alongside Merrin and Konrad as marquees BUT if Prior is a direct replacement for Merrin on marquee money I would be very underwhelmed. I'd rather we went to St Helens and temped Thompson or Walmsley with big money. Or go for players such as Liam Watts and David Fifita and offer them big money. They are players who are already based over here in super league

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:25 am  

WALTROYD wrote:

I think this whole situation stinks.. The longer we let this rumble on the more it will have a detriment to our 2020 season. I was happy when I discovered that Merrin had agreed to return after he was unable to make his move during the agreed date set by the club. I was also happy with the potential prior signing if we could work him into our cap alongside Merrin and Konrad as marquees BUT if Prior is a direct replacement for Merrin on marquee money I would be very underwhelmed. I'd rather we went to St Helens and temped Thompson or Walmsley with big money. Or go for players such as Liam Watts and David Fifita and offer them big money. They are players who are already based over here in super league

Defo take Walmsley or Watts.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:29 pm  

WALTROYD wrote:

I'd rather we went to St Helens and temped Thompson or Walmsley with big money. Or go for players such as Liam Watts and David Fifita and offer them big money. They are players who are already based over here in super league

Watts and Fifita might be more realistic, but it's still a push, requiring significant transfer fees, cap space (quota space for Fifita), and agreement from the club and player. For the Saints players, given salary cap constraints, what makes you think Leeds are in a position to prize away one of the best players in the competition and out-bid the current SL champions?

Even in past big-spending eras we could arguably only sign Wigan's cast-offs in the 1990s (Hanley, Gregory, Goodway etc), Union project signings (Gallagher failed, Innes went well), players on the outer in the NRL in the 2000s (Lauitiiti, Leuluai etc), asset strip poorer SL teams (e.g. Ellis, Harris), or pick up players out-of-contract (e.g. Peacock - and let's not forget a big part of this was him playing for his hometown club). Remember even the cash-strapped Bulls wouldn't let us sign Vainikolo, however much we wanted him.

The point is that as wealthy as we may be relative to other SL clubs, there are, and have always been, limits to what the club can do by throwing money around. It's not fantasy RL.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:30 pm  

I don't think Prior's worth marquee money. I've no idea why Leeds want him so much tbh.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:33 pm  

We love underwhelming, injury prone, light quota Props. Kylie and Ali have been the only two greats.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:35 pm  

BrisbaneRhino wrote:

I don't think Prior's worth marquee money. I've no idea why Leeds want him so much tbh.

Has there been a credible suggestion that Leeds will offer him marquee money?

Looks like Aussie journalists looking at our public interest in the player (Prior) and putting two and two together. If Leeds go for a deal like this I would expect them to push to get a lot more out of it, as others have pointed out.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:40 pm  

tomrhodes28 wrote:

Defo take Walmsley or Watts.

More chance of Curly watts.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V2 : Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:41 pm  

I've no idea what he'll be on. All I know is he's a solid prop who's over 30. I don't know why we've seemingly targeted him. Ava shows that if you do decent research you can get quality.