Confirmed Richie Myler has signed on a three year deal.

Good signing for Leeds in my opinion.

Often it can take halves until their mid to late 20s to learn how to control a game. At 27, Myler should be coming into his best years now.

Completely underwhelmed with this but will obviously give him a chance to prove me wrong and hope he does. I feel we need an organising controller at Half though and that, for me anyway, is certainly not Myler who will bring nothing different to what we already have in McGuire.

But if Mags is heading for the door as many on here are saying, isn't getting someone who is pretty much the same a good thing? Means there are no great changes in play or style needed - just replacing one with another. Even if Mags stays on next year he won't be around until Myler's contract runs out in 2020. Guess it depends whether or not Mags offers / does the right things.

^ This.



Completely willing to be surprised and truly hope that I am.

does this mean McGuire's future has already been decided ?

With Myler Confirmed now, in next few weeks I reckon we will hear about the future of Mcguire or Burrow or possibly Sutcliffe or Lilley.

I see what you are saying, but i believe we already struggle without an organiser at present so if this is it then nothing will change in that regard. unless the plan is to bring somebody else in as well, but i think it is unlikely.



also, what is our play style? just cuffing it? in general it seems that way to me. So annoying that we still fail to service the likes of Hall and Watkins correctly who would run riot in certain other SL teams.

I understand and share many of the doubts/concerns over this move, but at the end of the day he's an experienced half-back coming into the peak of his career, so fingers crossed.



It will be interesting to see what the bigger plans are regarding his half-back partner(s) at Leeds next season.

Stats between the two this season:



McGuire v Myler



Tries: 3 | 10

Assisted: 19 | 16

Tackles: 227 | 294

Marker Tackles: 19 | 26

Missed Tackles: 30 | 49

Attacking Kicks: 76 | 81

Tackle Busts: 19 | 43

Carries: 87 | 148

Metres: 538 | 932

Breaks: 5 | 18

Dummy Runs: 15 | 13

40/20s: 0 | 3

Errors: 18 | 21

Offload: 8 | 10

Penalties: 18 | 13

Sin bin: 2 | 1

Those stats are interesting Frosties.



I'd give sutcliffe the 6 shirt next year, myler seven and burrow 14. Give suttcliffe his last chance to make a go of stand off. If half way through the year it's obvious it's not working, swap sutty to centres and put moon back in. I'd look to feed Lilly in a bit more and Make ward captain.

After Sinfield and others retired the criticism on here was we didn't go out and find a replacement. This occasion we have and he's done well at SL level, have experience at a big club and great age for a HB. Whilst yes concerns about consistency are valid I think people need to be a bit realistic and remember what they were complaining about in prior years about not going out to find replacements for retiring players (McGuire surely is going now)