Jared Stewart has been promoted to the first team squad for 2011. Young second rower who has excelled in our academy.

Is he one of the young cumbrians we signed who's played for England?

Very strange you only have one name out of at least four , did your informent die mid conversation !

There wasn't four second rowers promoted, hence why I didn't name them. And I think Stewart was the youngest of the players promoted and yet offered a 3 year deal, which is unlike Leeds unless they think highly of someone.



And yes, rhinoms he is one of the cumbrians.

Cheers mate who are the other 3?

Our signings could be worse. Bulls have signed jailbird gareth raynor

They are just interested in his marketing skills.

They're hoping they have to mailshot 10,000 season ticket holders so they will be desperate for printer ink cartridges.

He could also help deliver them.

Given that Leeds appeared at the time to have chosen to keep Burgess over Scruton, which in hindsight wasn't the best of ideas if true (yes, I know the Bulls also offered more money), I'd rather not get Scruton back to lose yet another pair of solid squad members. Especially considering that both of them have significant improvement in them, are already making a strong contribution to the team, and that homegrown players are increasingly at a premium in the current Leeds set-up.

Its funny, because its true

Where is the evidence that Leeds 'chose' to keep Burgess over Scruton?



One was in contract at the time while one was coming out of contract. The one coming out of contract having rejected Leeds' terms to stay was open to offers elsewhere and took the best one available to him in terms of (and I'm only guessing here) 1st grade/starting opportunities, length of contract and remuneration.



If you are correct and Leeds 'chose' Burgess over Scruton then that would be a concern on a footballing front.



In my view it's highly likely that Leeds chose not to compete for his signature once Scruton had rejected their terms much as they had done with Calderwood a couple of seasons earlier.



It's also interesting that Eastwood was secured as his replacement in the role of interchange prop, I wonder how cost effective that move turned out compared to retaining the locally produced potential future England International.

The locally produced future England International (isn't he already one, albeit when England was the dumping ground for players who couldn't make the GB side?) will have been offered what Leeds considered to be his market value.



That someone else decided to pay more than that and he opted to take that offer has nothing to do with what Leeds decided to do with the remaining salary cap available to them.



Unless of course you're suggesting that Leeds offered Scruton an artificially low contract just so they would have room to pay Eastwood?

I was using future England International in the present tense as it were, being comparable with past GB honours, being the ultimate aim beyond club recognition. That Leeds made an offer for Scruton indicates to me that Leeds only chose Burgess once that offer was rejected which was the point I was addressing.







I wouldn't know the thought processes of the club CEO anymore than I suspect you would. What you describe though may (and only may) aptly be applied to the other instance I highlighted from a couple of seasons prior.