Good money and free local accommodation is my understanding


Doubt he'll need to supplement his income as a Hermes courier in 2022 :

Thought as much, people assume it's a lack of ambition on our part but that's far from always the case.

We want cover and we also want quality and we don't have the money for both. The whole point of the Academy scheme is that's where the cover comes from. Kershaw sat somewhere between the two but to keep him it would appear it would cost us more than we thought he was worth. It's the oldest rule in the game.

We've clearly signed Murphy very young because we saw the potential, we want to keep TL, and Lineman is a better player whilst a few others can cover the wing including Rockey if he stays. Just how it goes and Kershaw has a living to make.

Still believe the league should look to re-integrate the old A-team's. I think Lee would have done well providing cover for the 1st team while playing regularly in the A team.

Good luck to him, sounds like it's a nice deal with the housing thrown in to boot so can't fault Lee.

With the way clubs are talking, I`m not sure many clubs could afford to run an A Team to be honest.

True. We'd have no chance but it would be nice in an ideal world!

Ya off again are ya keyboard warrior at it again .change things to suit my agenda and what agenda is this mr i know nothing know it all

I’m the keyboard warrior

Kershaw will probably end up like Dale Morton who burst on the scene during John Kear's era but, following a few errors at Super League level, but was shipped out and subsequently made a very good career in the Championship.

Yep your the one that constantly just doesnt want to put his own opinions across but also attempts to try and put others down..if im honest i really do feel sorry for you you most have a really sad boring lonley life after years of been bullied.

You’re obsessed with the word ‘bullied’, odd.

Stop relentlessly posting negatives and then you might get some positives

Just stop it guys.
I don't know why I need to keep telling you.

Dale Morton's career ended when Brough gave him a crap pass at Hull KR with a try begging and the look on Brough's face was that it was Morton's fault!

The cup game against Cas at home was a nail in his coffin! Got slated for weeks,
Still a young lad learning his trade at that point.

Challenge cup match in golden point extra time, with the first half against the strong wind almost over when he gave a penalty away which they kicked.

So yet again Trinity let a very decent YOUNG player go a player who can only get better and become a very good SL winger
How many more times will this happen? Who next Croft Bowes Bailey etc while the club continue to sign old men and very average overseas players
I have no confidence in the powers that be to look to the undoubted potential of the current under 19s

We have two overseas halfbacks and a centre who would only make the Leigh starting 13 at best
We continue to pay higher salaries to reserve grade overseas players and let good up and coming young homegrown brits go. Always being the Trinity way since the 1980s sadly always will be.

When you say yet again, which previous players do you have in mind? Broughy is the last player I can think of who we released and became a very good SL player back in 2001.

I understand it if true but it is a shame. As others have said he has really improved and now looks to be a very capable SL player.

I think his departure if it happens reflects on where the club is at, at the moment rather than a reflection on his ability and potential.

Unfortunately the club is in survival mode, the first and most important driver at the moment for the club is to not finish bottom of the league and be relegated.

I also think it is a challenge to attract players given the nature of our current struggles.

Given the above we have to look at making improvements whenever/wherever we can. Lineham is an improvement on Kershaw and given our perceived struggles to recruit elsewhere such as Prop we have to look to make improvements in other areas when the opportunity presents itself.

It’s a short term mentality and I think if we had a more dominant set of middles Kershaw probably gets a new contract but given we need to find improvements anywhere he has paid the price for that, and with 2 other players one bring a talented youngster who can play wing we seem to have cover when TJ or Lineham spend time out injured.

If it turns out to be true I believe he will absolutely dominate the top scoring tables for the duration of his time in the lower leagues and would expect him to return to SL at some point, and as others have identified he’s probably got a decent wage rise to make the move to the North East.

Really like Kershaw, great signing for Newcastle. But in TJ and TL you'v got probably the 2nd best wing pairing in the league next year imo, with an outstanding youngster backing them up. Thats how squad management should be done. Think your club have done good work here.

Fully expect Kershaw to be a good superleague wing down the line but Murphy needs to get his chances nxt season to continue his development.

I agree, I think people underestimate just how good Lineham actually is, as I say if he cant cut out the silly visits to to Disciplinary panel we have one of the best wingers in the league to play alongside the best winger in the league in TJ.

All we need is someone to give them the ball!

I agree on that bar one thing.

I’ve seen a lot of Kershaw type wingers and one thing I’ve noticed is that they don’t tend to age well.

There game is almost totally based on physicality and once age/wear and tear takes it’s toll they fade. Some adapt but most don’t.

I agree he’s improved dramatically but fit me he plays from the heart and isn’t a game player if you get what I mean.

I may be wrong, hope I am but I don’t think he will return to SL, he will find his niche.

A perfect example of this kind of player was Shaun Aincough, he looked a world beater at Wigan for a season but a few years down the line he was a foot note.
He had a very similar style imo to Kershaw. Ditto David Jones if you want to go back further.

Again hope I’m wrong and I’d have kept him, but if you look at say Murphy there is far more potential, though that’s all it is for now.

Ainscough I think lacked the physicality that Kershaw has and he certainly lacked the size. His main issue however was his defence and positioning. He never cracked that at SL level and it is what ultimately cost him. Going forward he could finish but for every try he scored he would leak at least one or 2 with very poor errors.

The difference between him and Kershaw I believe is that Kershaw has shown improvement since getting his chance in SL. Ainscough came from a dominant junior system where he was a bit of a phenomenon and flat track bully so didn’t really have his weaknesses exposed and as such didn’t have to develop them.

I think generally if you are scoring tries in the lower divisions you get noticed. He’s scored plenty already when on loan and I expect him to continue to do so as he is a significantly better player now than he was a couple of years ago.

I appreciate the doesn’t age well comment as he does take a lot of hammer but generally speaking so do most wingers these days as they are expected to be meter makers early in the sets. I can’t think of many wingers these days who haven’t had long spells on the sideline as a result of this change is style, he does seem more robust than most but yet to be proven I guess due to him still having a relatively short career to date.

Lastly which probably outweighs much of the above luck can often play a part, an injury in a rota opens a space up, or his staying injury free and getting good runs of games. That will always attract interest because of the nature of the way the wingers role has changed.

I do miss the days of the leaner flying wingman and I think in Mackinson, Grace and TJ there is still room for them in the game but even the above are expected to make the early carries and rack up the yards as the pack get a bit of a rest. It’s a change in style which personally I’m not fond of.

Well only time will tell but I think I'm right.

The other thing is that this clearly seems to be of Kershaw's choosing, if true, which can't be denied.

He was I believe offered a two-year deal but went for one year. I suspect he will have been offered an extension that he refused as it wasn't enough but I can't prove it. Then he took a deal with a Championship club, which to me shows a lack of ambition. Fair enough if it's costing him to stay with us I get it but as I say we can only offer what we can afford same as him.

It's a tough world in RL at present.

Not Lineham, he's taylor made physically for our 'use wingers in your own 20 to drive the ball out at all costs' policy!