Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:26 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Not been a draw for few years as we seem to have filled the squad with average players and not been able to afford better players.
Do think KS fixing this though. I was bashing Hurrell wage before, but have since realised what a monster he is, and great for team morale too. Firm fan favourite....

Im not sure this is correct, look at our signings for this year, and last year for that matter.

Mellor
Gale
Leeming
Prior

Hurrel
Tui
Merrin
Ava
Martyn

That’s not as bad as you’re making out, SL as a whole struggles to sign total quality from the NRL and in Gale, Leeming and mellor weve attracted 3 of the better SL players

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:27 pm  

Shabino wrote:

Not been a draw for few years as we seem to have filled the squad with average players and not been able to afford better players.
Do think KS fixing this though. I was bashing Hurrell wage before, but have since realised what a monster he is, and great for team morale too. Firm fan favourite....

Im not sure this is correct, look at our signings for this year, and last year for that matter.

Mellor
Gale
Leeming
Prior

Hurrel
Tui
Merrin
Ava
Martyn

That’s not as bad as you’re making out, SL as a whole struggles to sign total quality from the NRL and in Gale, Leeming and mellor weve attracted 3 of the better SL players

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:40 pm  

christopher wrote:

Im not sure this is correct, look at our signings for this year, and last year for that matter.

Mellor
Gale
Leeming
Prior

Hurrel
Tui
Merrin
Ava
Martyn

That’s not as bad as you’re making out, SL as a whole struggles to sign total quality from the NRL and in Gale, Leeming and mellor weve attracted 3 of the better SL players

Leeds are spending more money on the squad now than they ever did during the Golden years. But it won't stop people with misguided agendas accusing the club of not spending enough.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:03 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

Leeds are spending more money on the squad now than they ever did during the Golden years. But it won't stop people with misguided agendas accusing the club of not spending enough.

Well said

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:26 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

Leeds are spending more money on the squad now than they ever did during the Golden years. But it won't stop people with misguided agendas accusing the club of not spending enough.

What a load of BS if you seriously think this current Squad earn more than a Squad contsining Peacock Sinfield Mags Burrow Buderus Senior Watkins Hall Webb Ellis Kyie etc then you need your head checking.
Thats without taking into account Coaching staff.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:51 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

What a load of BS if you seriously think this current Squad earn more than a Squad contsining Peacock Sinfield Mags Burrow Buderus Senior Watkins Hall Webb Ellis Kyie etc then you need your head checking.
Thats without taking into account Coaching staff.

We managed to get that squad together with the promise of winning stuff. That was before marquee players and the cap nudging up a bit. It's not rocket science to understand - and as for the off field team, McDermott was essentially a one-man show. Add in Sinfield and the expansion of the other assistants and we are several £100k down.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:59 pm  

The Ghost of '99 wrote:

We managed to get that squad together with the promise of winning stuff. That was before marquee players and the cap nudging up a bit. It's not rocket science to understand - and as for the off field team, McDermott was essentially a one-man show. Add in Sinfield and the expansion of the other assistants and we are several £100k down.

We weren't exactly paying them with washers either & the bonus' weren't a pittence.
We have 1 Marquee player & we always leave "cap space" for a rainy day.
Given the low wages we offered Myler & Watkins before him im confident that this squad is nowhere near what that Golden Squad costs.
As for Mcdermott he walked away from a cushy well payed job in London ,Agar is GH's yes man i dont bekieve their wages will be comparable either.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:11 pm  

We will have definitely saved a few quid with some of the youngsters coming through like Newman, Handley, Walker, Oledzki and so on. I think generally we’ve strengthened in the areas we needed to and have got a reasonable balance between strength in depth and improving the starting line up. I can see the recruitment being a bit lighter all around the game this year as the financial impacts of no fans for what will be at least a year comes to bite.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:38 pm  

I know we all like a new signing but I am sure we need quality rather than quantity now. Absolutely no point signing anyone who doesn’t give us something we lack. Absolutely no point signing anyone who will block the pathway of a young player who could be just as good or better.

People (including myself) were talking about the need for a winger last year. This year I’m looking at Handley, Briscoe and Tindall thinking it isn’t all bad.

If we lost Lui or his fitness gave in, a real game breaking 6 would be good. I still think one more animal prop to give us an awesome foursome. Other than that... unless a world beater comes up then I say run with what we have; major surgery completed and time to let the patient heal.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Oct 05, 2020 7:34 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

We weren't exactly paying them with washers either & the bonus' weren't a pittence.
We have 1 Marquee player & we always leave "cap space" for a rainy day.
Given the low wages we offered Myler & Watkins before him im confident that this squad is nowhere near what that Golden Squad costs.
As for Mcdermott he walked away from a cushy well payed job in London ,Agar is GH's yes man i dont bekieve their wages will be comparable either.

It was pretty well known that pretty much every player in the club would have earned more elsewhere - since we stopped winning we've had to pay more, that was always inevitable.
FWIW bonuses as paid by Leeds (100% of the prize money) are outside the salary cap which was a more than decent top-up as long as we kept winning.