Re: Recruitment policy : Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:42 am
exiledrhino wrote:
Hi everyone, new to the forum here.
Still feeling pretty disappointed with such a poor display last night, but it got me thinking about our recruitment policy. Danny mags recently said in an interview that Sir Kev had strayed away from our previous recruitment policy, and I think he's right.
We seem to only sign oversees players or other clubs cast offs. After a quick view of the different squads in Super League, there are a huge amount of ex-Leeds products around. I'd like to see us bring back some players who've grown up supporting the club under the guise of a 'unfinished business' style marketing campaign. Here's a bit of a list of some former Leeds products I've identified. I'm sure many of them would be better than what we have...
I'm sure there's a couple of mistakes on there, and may be missing a few too.
Luke Gale
Paul McShane
Alex Foster
Chris Clarkson
Jodie Broughton
Micky McIlorum
Colton Roche
Jimmy Keinhorst
Danny McGuire
Robbie Mulhern
Nick Scruton
Jay Pitts
Morgan Smith
Kyle Amor (kind of)
Tom Johnstone
Ben Jones-Bishop
Jordan Baldwinson
Ryan Atkins
Zak Hardaker
Still feeling pretty disappointed with such a poor display last night, but it got me thinking about our recruitment policy. Danny mags recently said in an interview that Sir Kev had strayed away from our previous recruitment policy, and I think he's right.
We seem to only sign oversees players or other clubs cast offs. After a quick view of the different squads in Super League, there are a huge amount of ex-Leeds products around. I'd like to see us bring back some players who've grown up supporting the club under the guise of a 'unfinished business' style marketing campaign. Here's a bit of a list of some former Leeds products I've identified. I'm sure many of them would be better than what we have...
I'm sure there's a couple of mistakes on there, and may be missing a few too.
Luke Gale
Paul McShane
Alex Foster
Chris Clarkson
Jodie Broughton
Micky McIlorum
Colton Roche
Jimmy Keinhorst
Danny McGuire
Robbie Mulhern
Nick Scruton
Jay Pitts
Morgan Smith
Kyle Amor (kind of)
Tom Johnstone
Ben Jones-Bishop
Jordan Baldwinson
Ryan Atkins
Zak Hardaker
I'm not sure how far you're going back on this but you're wrong on these...
Jay Pitts - Wakefield Academy - from Ossett Wakefield
Ryan Atkins - Bradford Academy - from Leeds
Zak Hardaker - Featherstone - from Pontefract
Tom Johnstone - Wakefield Academy - born Germany lived in Pudsey for a while (played a few times in Leeds U15's development team so hardly qualifies as a Leeds player does he)