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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sat Jun 04, 2016 7:24 pm  
Too much trouble for the money, methinks.
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sat Jun 04, 2016 8:17 pm  
Interesting comment from Brian Noble on the Super League Show in that when Wigan were in a similar position they shelled out a world record fee for Stuart Fielden in the hope that he would lead them out of the mire. Could Leeds be hoping to bank in on a valuable asset in order to buy a player who will lead them around the park and start to get some wins? If so, who will they be targetting?
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:27 am  
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Why, what's be done this season to make you say that?


Possibly that he's only scored 1 try
Only assisted 2 tries
11th on the error count
48th on metres made (Matty Russell is 9th and he's been injured)
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:48 am  
Wouldn't hold him responsible for all that. Tough job at fullback when your team have got a soft belly like Leeds have. Can't make running meters when yout picking the ball up on your own line time after time.

Strangely, Leeds have made the most carries in the league this year, just not making much ground with them, probably due to field position and the big men not being interested
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:42 am  
Hardaker's fall from grace this year, in terms of form, is representative of Leeds plight. From MOS, he now finds himself shunted between full-back and wing in an attempt to wring whatever match winning talent he still possesses out of him.

In terms of the man himself, what would you get for £300K? A petulant, disruptive and unpredictable firebrand, with a hugely-inflated sense of self-worth.

Undeniably talented, but with more issues than a psychiatrists bookshelf and simply not worth the bother. He is the natural heir to the Gareth Hock estate, and Jeremy Kyle should prepare the DNA tests for them both, because there's a definite pattern emerging here.
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sun Jun 05, 2016 8:49 am  
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Wouldn't hold him responsible for all that. Tough job at fullback when your team have got a soft belly like Leeds have. Can't make running meters when yout picking the ball up on your own line time after time.

Strangely, Leeds have made the most carries in the league this year, just not making much ground with them, probably due to field position and the big men not being interested


If you're a supposedly top class player, I don't think it is enough to say that everyone else around you was poor - you have to take responsibility for effecting change. His body language has admittedly not been as bad as Watkins', but he has run him close when I have seen Leeds. I have no particular vendetta against him, just thought he was overhyped last year and it has shown this time around.
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:23 am  
I don't expect that we would fit him in the cap and wouldn't want to to be honest. We have Russell, ratchford and hopefully in a few years Jack Johnson. I don't think he is worth that fee really and suspect that he probably wants to try the NRL as his preferred option.
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:47 am  
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Too much trouble for the money, methinks.


I am with this and I don't think anyone in the NRL will touch him with a barge pole.
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:59 am  
I don't think well see Zac playing in the NRL, as he may not get a work permit in Australia anyhow.
As I understand it, Aus Gov authorities don't take too kindly like naughty boys.
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Re: Zak Hardaker : Mon Jun 06, 2016 7:15 am  
His whole persona fits the person specification Mr Wane uses to recruit his players!!
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