Re: OUT 2022 | Callum Mclelland - Castleford Tigers : Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:56 am  

christopher wrote:

The Hurrell situation is all a bit weird IMO.

He\s repeatedly said he wanted to stay, then even after declining the contract offer has still said he would have preferred to have stayed and it's not how he wanted his time with Leeds to end.

I would imagine we only offered him a one year deal (same as Martin) and Saints offered him two. His partner seems a really headstrong women, wonder if she had any influence in the decision (pure speculation on my point and don't mean any disrespect in it).

I wonder wether Tolouse would have been a good option for him aswell had he known they would be promoted?

Perhaps Konrad wants to win something and with better structures and go forward at Saints he is going to get far more ball and in one to one situations at centre where they are short of numbers , doubt he will play 2nd row very often .
Yes the 2 year contract against the 1 year Leeds offered will also have been enticing and gives him chance of even more trophies

Re: OUT 2022 | Callum Mclelland - Castleford Tigers : Sat Oct 16, 2021 2:07 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

Perhaps Konrad wants to win something and with better structures and go forward at Saints he is going to get far more ball and in one to one situations at centre where they are short of numbers , doubt he will play 2nd row very often .
Yes the 2 year contract against the 1 year Leeds offered will also have been enticing and gives him chance of even more trophies

Konrad has won something with the Rhinos

Re: OUT 2022 | Callum Mclelland - Castleford Tigers : Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:31 pm  

Re: OUT 2022 | Callum Mclelland - Castleford Tigers : Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:16 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

Perhaps Konrad wants to win something and with better structures and go forward at Saints he is going to get far more ball and in one to one situations at centre where they are short of numbers , doubt he will play 2nd row very often .
Yes the 2 year contract against the 1 year Leeds offered will also have been enticing and gives him chance of even more trophies

The rumour at Saints is that he’s already signed for another team in 2023 and we are a stop gap for him, as a chance to work with Woolf before the World Cup.

It’s a really strange signing, I have no idea where he fits in either in the centres or in the back row at Saints, as he’s not likely to displace the the incumbents, but seems crazy to sign him to mainly play reserves as hell run riot. Fitness is obviously going to be a major question mark here.

If he gets back to the body shape he had in the NRL, would there not be question marks over the conditioning team at Leeds? If he doesn’t there’ll be questions on what Saints were considering when signing him.

Re: OUT 2022 | Callum Mclelland - Castleford Tigers : Sun Oct 17, 2021 9:22 am  

Yep, it's a strange one on saints' part. Doesn't seem in keeping with the kind of player they normally sign.

Re: OUT 2022 | Callum Mclelland - Castleford Tigers : Sun Oct 17, 2021 1:11 pm  

Have Saints formally announced his signing yet?

If not Wonder if Toulouse might be at alternative

Re: OUT 2022 | Callum Mclelland - Castleford Tigers : Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:04 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

The rumour at Saints is that he’s already signed for another team in 2023 and we are a stop gap for him, as a chance to work with Woolf before the World Cup.

It’s a really strange signing, I have no idea where he fits in either in the centres or in the back row at Saints, as he’s not likely to displace the the incumbents, but seems crazy to sign him to mainly play reserves as hell run riot. Fitness is obviously going to be a major question mark here.

If he gets back to the body shape he had in the NRL, would there not be question marks over the conditioning team at Leeds? If he doesn’t there’ll be questions on what Saints were considering when signing him.

Agreed, if Saints can get his fitness back to where he was when he was in the NRL then there are big questions regarding Leeds conditioning team. I'm hoping Saints are unsuccessful too and it is solely down to Hurrell.