Re: Hardaker : Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:54 pm  

Hardaker & Chase party time in Cas Vegas.

Re: Hardaker : Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:02 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

Hardaker & Chase party time in Cas Vegas.

Yes, that worrying thought had crossed my mind. Two players who have the potential to be a very bad influence on each other.
Conversely, I wonder if Rangi will be a good influence on Hardaker. He seems very settled at the moment and is one of the few players who can maybe use his experience from the last few years to help Hardaker knuckle down and get on with playing rugby.
If Hardaker comes in thinking he's better than everyone else he's in for a shock on the training ground when Rangi, Gale and Roberts start show-boating. It will be like Tony Adams and Martin Keown trying to play 2v2 keep-ball against Ronaldo and Messi.

Re: Hardaker : Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:13 pm  

Buck Tarbrush wrote:

Fact is if Cas do sign Hardaker , their halves and fullback will be vastly superior to anything Leeds can offer , whether Leeds fans want to admit it or not .

The same applied this year so no different for next season

Re: Hardaker : Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:35 pm  

cosworth wrote:

When Sinfield retired we put Sutcliffe alongside McGuire which didm't work. Hardaker left which saved GH's embarrassment as he had a new place to put Sutcliffe. So this year who's the halves ? are we going back to McGuire and Burrow ? we had that combination before and decided to change it ??

How did it not work? IIRC they didn't play a full 80 mins together all year and Maggsy clearly hasn't been fully fit

Re: Hardaker : Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:44 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

do we spend the full cap? GH says he always has room for a mid season signing so how can we spend the full cap?

You are allowed to backend contracts and pay players more the year after, so in reality you only need to keep around 20k free to sign someone mid season (to meet the minimum pay SL allow)

Dont understand the reputation of GH being cheap, JP Webb Buderus Ellis were all world class players that will have been on top wages

Although if we don't run a reserve side next year... (any word on that btw?)

Re: Hardaker : Tue Oct 18, 2016 6:29 am  

Rangi Chase being a mentor to Hardaker now that's funny.

Re: Hardaker : Tue Oct 18, 2016 6:38 am  

Hardaker and Chase in the same dressing room. Jesus!

Re: Hardaker : Tue Oct 18, 2016 7:10 am  

Stevosfalseteeth wrote:

Hardaker and Chase in the same dressing room. Jesus!

We are certainly rolling the high-stakes dice.
Hardaker, Chase and Eden signed for 2017 (presuming the rumours are true). All have undoubted qualities, but also some major frailties.

Re: Hardaker : Tue Oct 18, 2016 7:18 am  

I think Hardaker will be a major asset for whoever he signs for next year, the lad has bags of ability. If he does end up signing for Cas expect Powell to get the best out of him and we will see a return to the MOS form which will be a particularly hard pill to swallow for us Leeds fans.

Re: Hardaker : Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:05 am  

Powell does get the best out of players and if he gets the best out of Zak, (if we are signing him) we will have the best fullback in the league. Even a 70% Zak will be a better option than Eden for me..... so i for one hope this rumor is true. Cas have an announcement at 12 today so maybe this is it.