Surely we all work with someone who is good at their job, but is also an egotistical loudmouth? All good when your department is getting results, but it wears thin after a while. Especially when the performance of said department / company drops. You can let it slide for so long before the eventual result is a mutual split.

Thinking about which NRL clubs could be in the market for Hardaker - Newcastle, Gold Coast, Canberra - the one that sticks out is Souths with Inglis moving to stand-off recently. Maguire could be just the coach to suit Hardaker too.

In return it would be great if we could get Luke Keary - on the outer at Souths because he's too off-the-cuff for Maguire, but what a brilliant half-back he could be over here.

Fair enough if he wants to go to NRL but hope we can include first option to resign if he comes bac!

God no wouldn't want to re sign him. Why would we want him back if he leaves us at the first signs of trouble

Could do it just to try and catch another SL club in a Iestyn Harris/Bradford situation

pity the cretin drummer doesn't fancy aussie too.

Very strange fom Leeds , normally when a player going to Aus everything signed and sealed before anything announced. Could it be a deal between Hardaker/Gale has fallen through.

Watkins and Hall both want out asap is what Ive heard. Making Bmcd unsackable is bringing this to a head.

Tbh hall leaving wouldn't be end of the world we have had his best I feel. Watkins potential is a blow, but if they go they go. Not end of the world

I heard McDermott also kidnapped the Lingbergh baby, stole Shergar and was the 2nd gunman on the Grassy Knoll.

So is anyone willing to say why Hardaker is leaving? Did he jump or was he pushed?

Rumour on the hull board is that Ryan Hall is involved somehow.

With hardaker being a big miscreant and all, the nrl should be a good fit, right? They're mental over there, match fixing, drug scandals....raping dogs.

Why would anyone from hull know? they have more important matters to attend to, like challenging for a treble and playing well.

this is a good move by both parties concerned imo

personally i would like to wish zak all the best and i sincerely hope that he finds what he's looking for in the next stage of his life

no player is ever bigger than any club and zak will be replaced in due course,just as any other players that should wish to leave for new careers will be,irrespective of who they are

The end of the world is exactly what this season is shaping up to be. Hall and Watkins leaving would be the finishing touch to BMD's legacy which is looking more and more like the sporting equivalent of the book of Revelations.

Yeah one that's doing the rounds that Hall shot down on Twitter as nonsense was that he got Hardaker's bird pregnant.

Considering Hall and Hardaker are still joking and messaging each other on Twitter I dare say that one is clearly garbage.

Default RL rumour now though isn't it?

Someone has a bad game and people think "his bird must have cheated on him with a teammate"!

Who's pay that to sign him? He can't even get in the Leeds team that are bottom of SL.

Maybe no one, but if you're in Leeds' position why would you set the bar (fee) lower?

Even if clubs don't match the 300k I'd imagine they'll offer closer to that amount than if Leeds came out and said 100/150k.

Correct it's akin to the the flushing toilet rumours that were doing the rounds when the police arrived at a certain Warrington Wolves players Flat not so long ago

Yeah that's one that I've heard a lot and given no credence to, partly because, as Printer says, they've been joking on Twitter together.

This has been my point when so many seemed still seemed to consider decent players would be flocking to join Leeds....we are apparently spinning out of control downwards and out of the reckoning for top club appeal. I'm not sure how that is going to be arrested and reversed with more of our 'big names' leaving.

It will be one for the sporting annals to go from treble winners one season to relegation the next...with the accompanying flight of top personnel.

If somethings gone on between them dont think theyd be so chummy on twitter. Re Hardaker though, have noticed he seems to have removed any trace of his girlfriend from twitter. If the move is due to personal reasons this could be one. Purely speculating of course.

On this season, ive given up worrying about it. A few months ago id have settled for 8th. Then i was settling for wnning the middle 8s. Then i was thinking i hope we dont get relegated. Today im just like f#%€ it. Whatever.

Is he going to play until he moves or sit in the stands ?.
We will be even weaker if we don't replace him as soon as he leaves.