It could have been the carrot dangled in front of him to swap clubs.

Suppose every signing. Can’t be top players , especially in a salary cap sport , and the players been mentioned lately aren’t what I’d pick , but if they are replacing our average players like brown Scott etc then we are improving our squad with better average players . Won’t be an overnight thing assembling a squad that’s perfect , it will take a few years after how far back we’ve fell behind the best teams .

Bingo…..don’t rate a couple of names mentioned but would be better than ones replacing.Still think there will be another couple of “wow” signings and backed up with good players then we will improve

Me too , it’s going to be our overseas signings where the class comes from I’d have thought. , mainly due to lack of quality available who is from here , unless we pay some fees .

Who was the centre Leigh wanted to bring but couldn't do to not having any overseas spots? Armstrong?

Maybe we should sound them out for rest if this season?

Really intrigued to see who the coach is, a quality coach would get a tune out of any player, world class or not, no team has a squad of world class players,

Like previous comments have mentioned, 5/6 more quality signings and a ‘changing of the guard’ is what really matters, yes we will overpay to get players, but the right coach maybe able to get a tune out of some of the players that we have now,

Looking forward to how Trueman and Charles link up, would like to see a change at 9 though this weekend, maybe move Smith to 9 and use Balmforth from the bench