He’ll go to the NRL if he leaves can’t see the point of signing for another SL club if he has ambitions

I honestly think this may be his last season with us, if were lucky then he'll stay next season too but it wont be long before he heads down under.

So Kelly may need to be kept on

AP would sell him to Grudgell before Uncle Gawwy

Why would Bennett be looking at a half next season when he has Cody Walker playing in the best form of his career and established at No6 partnering Reynolds?

If Connor came to Souths he would play centre where Bennett plays him for England/Gt Britain. Note that Bennett has said that his preferred half backs for the upcoming Gt Britain tour are Williams / Widdop.

Incidentally today I will be at the Parramatta v Wests match at the opening of the new 30,000 capacity stadium in Sydney's west. The match has been sold out for weeks.

I'm not sure how true this story is, I'm sure Leeds were interested in Connor (Who wouldn't be), but no way would they bid 500k and I'm not sure we would turn it down, that's an insane amount of money for any rugby league player in the world.

I just hope we can keep Connor for as long as possible, as IMO he is one of the best players in SL, if anywhere I hope he goes to the NRL as I'd hate to play against him.

The thing is, what would we do with that money? We aren't desperate for cash, and it's not like football where we will go out and buy 2 or 3 players with the money. The fans would be up in arms if we sold him and didn't reinvest. It could go on the wages of a couple of marquee players, but are either of them likely to be as good as Connor? And then in a couple of years when those marquees have been and gone and Connor has just won the man of steel, then what?

He's our most marketable player and the one that we are trying to build a team around (along with Sneyd). Imo it's not even close to being enough.

I expect we will lose him to the NRL one day. But until then we should do everything to keep him.

To keep Jake , the Club will have to match his ambition and consistently, win and challenge for trophies.
We were discussing him on Friday. I think he will end up in the NRL . If the overatted Williams can get a NRL contract, I’m sure Connor can !

Not sure how true this is as I couldn’t see AP rejecting £500K for any player we have, as Dave K said it’s an insane amount of money for RL.

IF Leeds want to start throwing that sort of money around id guess Salford would sell Hastings for half that amount and have plenty left to buy a couple of forwards.

I couldn’t bear Jake leaving
If we sold him I’d feel worse than when we ‘sold Vaikona ‘
Selling Jake means we put our ambition cue on the rack
Hopefully AP has enough ambition and cash to keep him

Why would they not bid £500k?

When Wigan were in deep trouble in 2006 that spent that amount on Stuart Fielden. Now Fielden was probably the best prop in SL at the time, but hardly the creative player (or goal kicker for that matter) that Connor is. Leeds also have pots of cash, so it’s well within their resources.

13 years down the line, £500k would be the opening bid. If he were to be sold it I think the figure should be closer to £750k. But unless we are in financial disarray, what do you do with that money?

Leeds don't spend, in fact it's rare we see transfer fees anywhere near that in modern day RL.

I'm not saying we sell him, but that's a lot of cash to turn down, I'm shocked if Leeds bid thst much, but that they could probably sign Hastings, Josh Jones' another SL forward with that money.

I'm not sure I believe the story or certainly the amount bid

Well we've won 2 of the last 6 major trophies. Not too many in front of us on that measure.

Can we have a central contract for Jake please, do they still exist, Watkins Lomax etc,

I'm certain it is a BS story, as good as Jake CAN be, he's hardly consistent, certainly not for half a million.

There hasn't been an offer, just an enquiry which Hull dismissed out of hand.

Leeds have not had to spend in the recent past as their success on the pitch was enough to entice players in. That’s not there right now. ALso, Connor is mid contract.

I can remember the days of Leeds being the big spenders on the likes of Hanley, Tait, Gallagher, Innes etc, but they were trying to buy the success which they had not had for a long time back then. Perhaps the Headlingley old guard are edging that way again.

If it’s made it into LE, there will be something in the story. They are far more careful about publishing things than League Weekly.

I am less likely to believe a lot of the unsubstantiated stuff which appears on this forum. After all, Sneyd had agreed a contract with Wigan if you believed some posters on this forum only a few weeks ago.

non story, connor seems happy at hull, can see him staying to the end of his contract then if aussie calls he might well go, but for now lets just enjoy having him around,

Does Connor live in Hull or does he commute from W Yorks?

You're too late, we've already got an arrangement.

I'm not sure many Hull players live in Hull. Same goes for Rovers.

A lot live in the East riding villages and some travel in from West Yorkshire. I presume some travel together and share driving duties. Not a massive issue really.

Leeds didn’t spend when we were saving for the stadium. Now we’ll be making big money from the corporate side which we focused on in the redevelopment and have agreed to some big money sponsorship deals in the last 12 months.

Leeds can and will be spending big money again over the next few years, simply because they can and have worked hard to put themselves into a position to do so.

Not the big one though Leeds have won that quite a few times lately

more than the caravan club have won.

I feel sorry for Rovers fans, deluded.

What are you on about your posts get more bizarre by the day

Wonder what happened to these, most did not know of them till put Lomax on one think he was the 5th full back to get one and that brought it to the fore.

Now seems up to clubs to make them Marque players.