Nah boss it's quite common in the NFL on there 100mil salary caps, which is why I said it. Rich is a NFL/madden follower so great minds and all that

Why on earth would we want to front load a players contract so he can up and leave earlier with more in his pockets. This front loading suggestion is crazy.

Whatever Leeds decide to do with the money I hope they do something squad related with it. Either by making additional signings (my preference) or failing that this front loading of renegotiated extended contracts for players.

The cap is there to spend each year and it would be pointless leaving a surplus gathering dust in the company bank account while the team struggles for bodies out on the field of battle.

On that grounds you could argue no one is.



Fully agree. Common sense and a realistic approach is often missed. eg Eastwood was signed as a back up 6.



Andy Hay once lined up at Stand Off for us. Does that make him a stand off? Eastwood was signed as a pack player (prop 2nd row).

Fully agree with you on the versatility point in such small squads.




4 experienced first team props.

1 experienced first team centre.

Again common sense goes along way.

its also against the SC rules these days isnt it, im pretty sure they changed it after Ali

It's good managing if done right. Besides I suspect it's something GH has already been doing all along but in smaller numbers.

Lets say you have 50k free this year. If pay the right player or a few up front then next year you have that same 50k -50k for those wages for a total 100k extra spend.

bluey once publicly stated he wanted to play Eastwood at Stand Off for New Zealand against Aus

he has also played wing, and played SO more than a couple of times

He's not "on loan" anywhere. He's not contracted to Leeds, we don't have him registered with the RFL so we couldn't loan him.

He's signed for tbe Bulldogs with an option exercisable on his behalf to become a Leeds player on 1 December 2009 subject to obtaining visa clearance. It's quite possible that even if he gets a visa he can still refuse to take up that option and remain in the NRL, with the Bulldogs or anyone else.

Duh....just put a clause in that if the contract is breached, £x has to be paid back. FFS, this isn't difficult.

The Eastwood fiasco does leave us short of a World class player and it is more than possible that this will come back to haunt us as the season unfolds.

Luckily from a domestic point of view (unluckily from an international standpoint) the standards in superleague are likely to continue to dip for a few seasons yet, until the stream of young homegrown talent - from all clubs not just a few - comes full on board, so we may get away with a relatively underpowered squad this year.

Time will tell