Good point B & B and a happy New Year to you and yours. Leeds do have 38 players in their squad and a very good starting 13. However their depth consists of very young academy players or unproven Championship players. They will struggle as soon as they have any injuries. In addition Nene has been given number 4 which would suggest he will be in that starting 13. He would not get near our playing squad this year.

I still think they will be in for a tough season.

38 players in a squad counts for nowt. Only 25 count on the cap. Only 17 count on the day. Leigh are shy a little weight prop wise. But we have pace..



Pace pace pace..

As long as we don’t sign Hale as well.

Well hopefully another Prop is announced soon to Polish up our front row , don’t want to Chuck away the good work we have done in recruitment

By your capitalisation of both "Prop" & "Polish" are you hinting at Oledzki?



As to "Chuck" (with the greatest of respect), Signor Caroli may be a tad on the light side - though Bongser would love to be proved completely wrong (not for the first time).

Very true Bongser , and of late I must have lost around 8lbs in weight , and I’m not as fast as I used to be.

Unfortunately not heard that one , but hoping this one Shines out for us

Jeez theres going to a lot of Leythers surprised in 2023. Relegation/just staying up? Look at the spine of the team.. Zak, Lockie, Edwin and JA, supplemented with the likes of Amone and Leutele all 6 are top 4 SL players. Yes we have a few wild cards in the squad but im looking forward to see if Lammy can earth a diamond in Wildie, Davis, Gannon etc..



To top all that we are a club with no debt, no government loans, cap money to spend (and will spend it) and now an overseas spot up for grabs. Theres not a chance we will be in the bottom 4 of Super League. Current squad will push for top 6 and the squad will only get better as the season progresses.

No debt, are you sure - do directors loans not count



Difficult for me to grasp where this squad stands, some definite quality in there but deffo missing serious grunt, we only have one “big” prop and from what I saw last season he has a lot to prove



Also seems to be a small squad in terms of numbers, expected more to have been added by now, but it worked for us last season so let’s see how it pans out

Is anyone else concerned about our super experienced wing pairing?

Josh Charnley - 297 games 248 tries

Tom Briscoe - 357 games 183 tries



Somehow this seems to be a weaker pairing than Fergy and Inu. I am hoping experience trumps speed.

Inu did state he didn't think he was up to another superleague stint presuming he he was listening to his body , as for fergy we could have lost him mid way through the season which would have had more of disruption so I suppose we are fortunate to have Charnley and brisco to come in don't think many other teams would have able to do the same . Little rumour going about Jared w Hargreaves would he be the difference to the pack were all saying is needed ?

a directors loan causes difficulty if he/she wants it back and forces club into liquidation to claim a fraction back which will never happen.... id be more worried if we had a million pound of government debt that we had to start paying back but we dont... more clubs next year will spend less on players because they will have to cut their cloth accordingly meanwhile come May we will be cherry picking the best of the best from the rest because we will have a growing fan base, brand with increased commercial revenue and no debt...



As for props Tom Amone will be one of the best in the league, Rob Mulhern will add good punch and there is sizeable back up in davis and big ben behind them... that said i totally agree a couple of stand out signings in that department will add real quality to us and help us achieve play offs.. what nobody can account for is injuries which like any season will be crucial..