Made his loan move at Wakefield permanent. Hindsight is a great thing but should never have gone to union. Says a lot that he's only got a deal at Wakefield untill the end of 2013.

Was time for him to move on, couldn't see him getting back to how he was a few years ago. Nobody will forget his tries in the few grand finals he played in!

Shame it didn't work out this time, but it didn't work out this time.

IMO we need 7 first-team-ready players to cover 1-5 (it's handy that one of them can play in the pack too) before we start relying on untried cover in Chishom, Keinhorst etc.

This year it's been Webb, BJB, Watkins, Hardaker, Hall, Ablett, Smith.

We're now two light for next year, and I imagine this will be the focus of our recruitment.

You're right. First up should be a quality centre if possible.

If we are freeing up some cap space now could that mean a back signing before next season?

I bet you not



Sad in a way about Lee Smith. After winning the Harry Sunderland award it looked like he was really going to kick on to be the future Leeds FB. How times change.

Right move for him: Wakefield is about his level now.

Had the X factor before his move to union, would try the unexpected and pull it off quite often.

Hope it works out for him

Wish him well and his efforts for us and in GF's wont be forgotten.
As for signings watching Keinhorst and Chisolm again for U20's they deserve a shot imo before we bring anyone from outside the club in unless its top notch quality.

Thanks for the memories Lee!

Take it he can now play against us on Monday week?

Oh Yes he'll be playing!

Totally agree. Let's hope GH is thinking on similar lines.

Did some great things in his first stint at the club, I had really high hopes when he resigned for us, but he never got back to anywhere near his best. Wish him all the best at Wakefield, hope he can get his career back on the right path.. just not a week a Monday.

As silly as it sounds how much better than Ablett and Watkins are we realistically going to get? They are both playing very well, both young(ish) and british. Assuming Ablett stays on at centre which I think he should, could we sign someone that's going to be THAT much better that they'd justify taking a quota spot and probably a large chunk of the cap? I'd doubt it, I'd only go for Atkins as I can't exactly seeing us sign someone like Inglis and any other centre we bring over from Aus I don't think would improve our centre's enough to justify what they'd cost. If you look at our pensioner forwards we could improve in both props and the second row without having to sign a 'top' player imo. A young enthusiastic prop and impact second rower is what we need most.

Any new signings (should there even be any) can't play before 2013 now anyway given the signing deadline to play in 2012 passed on Friday.

The deadline has now passed but I don't think it was ever an option. Obviously there is more cap space now available for a quality signing plus rumours of 1/2 other players leaving. Andy Wilson said that we had signed a top NRL star for 2013 but it's never being confirmed by GH. We'll just have to wait to find out what's up his sleeve (if anything)!

Agree with this.

Thanks for some great memories Smith

The try that sealed the 2007 GF, all of the 2008 final, the cup try against Wigan etc

But your time to move on has come, hope it goes well at wakey for you

play.kendincos.com/164982/Wnrvzd ... -sltv.html you can tell from this he never really wanted to leave in the first place!

play.kendincos.com/164982/Wnrvzd ... -sltv.html you can tell from this he never really wanted to leave in the first place!

IF Bradford end up having a fire sale (and I really hope they don't) I'd go for the last Burgess lad. He looked dangerous when he came on and had plenty of drive in the tackle. Although I have heard that if he were to leave the Bulls he'd go and join his brothers in Sydney but I don't know how true that is.

He won't go anywhere else IMO. Souths already interested anyway.

I'd still like to see a centre come over to help further the development of Watkins and possibly Ablett. The more I see of Ablett at centre the more he impresses, his footwork is actually really good and he can pass.

Or tell Gasnier to come over as some sort of coach!

Oh and good luck to Smithy. Always thought the player we saw before he left for union was still in there..

I agree. Why can't GH approach Gasnier to come over as a player/ assist coach?

He works for one of the TV channels over there as an analyser. Would be handy to teach a few tricks though. It would never happen but it's the sort of scenario I'd like to see. Would just like our slightly inexperiences centres have a mentor to take them to the next step. I thought Senior would've hung around in the coaching set up to do this tbh

I agree we should sign an experienced quality centre if possible. I don't go along with the view that we should leave it to the youngsters who are coming through. I want us to remain at the top every season. I thoght GH might make a move for Junior Sa'u at the Knights who is available but all is quite.

Shame, when we he came back at easter in 2010 i thought once he got his rugby league fitness back he'd be back to his 2007-2009 self. But it just never materialised. I'm not really sure why, he just couldn't seem to get his thang back and then with BJB returning from london and hardaker signing he no longer had a regular run in the team.

Right move for him, right decision by us.