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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sun Sep 20, 2020 6:53 pm  
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Watkins has a blinder at the weekend. Still the best English centre by a country mile. Why oh why did we ditch him in first place, or not try to resign him?

I like Watkins, but he is nowhere near. Harry Newman is far better, Gildart, Percival, Griffin, Toby King all better at the moment. Yes he played well but he will never be the player he was for us. Newman is our now prodigy centre.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sun Sep 20, 2020 6:53 pm  
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Watkins has a blinder at the weekend. Still the best English centre by a country mile. Why oh why did we ditch him in first place, or not try to resign him?

I like Watkins, but he is nowhere near. Harry Newman is far better, Gildart, Percival, Griffin, Toby King all better at the moment. Yes he played well but he will never be the player he was for us. Newman is our now prodigy centre.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:04 pm  
Garry Schofield was also a brilliant Centre for us, should we get him back too?

Let go of the past and embrace the future. We should be playing more kids now, there will be no other season like this for having a free hit....
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:35 pm  
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I like Watkins, but he is nowhere near. Harry Newman is far better, Gildart, Percival, Griffin, Toby King all better at the moment. Yes he played well but he will never be the player he was for us. Newman is our now prodigy centre.

I wouldn't have Watkins back, but he still has a lot to offer and I'm confident he'll get back to being the best centre in the comp. Even at 70% of his best, he's better than the other centres listed above.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:36 pm  
Cuthbertson to Bradford or York in 2021, and Muizz to KR on a season long loan, apparently.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:31 pm  
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Harry Newman, you know the young player that over took him in the pecking order also had a blinding game at the weekend.

Watkins is a great guy and if he can regain his fitness and form is a great player, but he’s gone and at the time it was the right move for player and club, we have one of the best young players in the game replacing him, that is a massive positive for the future of the club, you need to move on


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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:53 am  
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I like Watkins, but he is nowhere near. Harry Newman is far better, Gildart, Percival, Griffin, Toby King all better at the moment. Yes he played well but he will never be the player he was for us. Newman is our now prodigy centre.

Percival is made of biscuits Gildart is decent but Griffin & King wont ever be as good as Watkins if Watkins played on one leg he'd still way above both those.
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:46 am  
Watkins is miles ahead of the other English centres. He's fully recovered from his serious injury now.
I thought it was incredible how little faith the club and fans showed in him, yet seem to have endless patience with Ward et al...
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:23 am  
Shabino wrote:
Watkins is miles ahead of the other English centres. He's fully recovered from his serious injury now.
I thought it was incredible how little faith the club and fans showed in him, yet seem to have endless patience with Ward et al...
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Watkins was scheduled to become a marquee player - he definitely wasn't worth marquee money by then and his departure completely transformed our salary cap position to enable all the other squad changes - much needed retentions as well as recruitment - that have got us back to a respectable place in the league.

It was pretty brutal but effective and fully justified by comparing where we are now to then.

Also just a couple of weeks ago you were complaining that Leeds management was "too soft". Which is it, or does it depend on whether it involves players you have a soft spot for?
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Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:08 pm  
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Watkins was scheduled to become a marquee player - he definitely wasn't worth marquee money by then and his departure completely transformed our salary cap position to enable all the other squad changes - much needed retentions as well as recruitment - that have got us back to a respectable place in the league.

It was pretty brutal but effective and fully justified by comparing where we are now to then.

Also just a couple of weeks ago you were complaining that Leeds management was "too soft". Which is it, or does it depend on whether it involves players you have a soft spot for?

So by that rationale Hurrell is worth marquee money. OK..
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