Leeds Rhinos - southstander.com • Re: RD 5 | Huddersfield Giants (A)
fanstanningley wrote:
Leeds didnt sign Hastings because at the time a fee had been agreed but Hastings wanted an NRL clause so we pulled put and rightly so.Why pay a large fee when the player could have walked away within 12 months.You mention Jai Field he hardly got into his former team so im not convinced he is top talent.Hurrell has made the dream team for the last two season so not sure how you come up with poor signing.Lui was brought in after the failure to secure Hastings and did his job of keeping us up.Tetavino was brought in on marquee money and if rumors are correct we beat a few clubs to his signature.Prior has been an excellent signing.King is a project signing on 12 month contract if he doesnt improve this will not be renewed.Too early to say whether Eastmond is a bad signing.
Field was another player Leeds wanted to sign and it fell through - maybe a blessing indisguise given what has happened. Very few people outside of Leeds would say Hurrell's form - not his hype deserved a place in the dream team. Poor defender and a very hot/cold player - perhaps Dean Ware would have been a more positive centre signing?
I said Lui and Gale are both in decline - even you must admit their best days are behind them . On King why are we not developing our own project players rather than hoping for a miracle NRL transformation? Eastmond is as old as Gale and hasn't played RL for >10 years - how will that end well - do we have so little faith in Mclelland again another poor project signing.
There doesn't seem to be a coherent strategy in squad development.
Statistics: Posted by Zoo Zoo Boom — Tue May 04, 2021 1:55 pm