This is Leeds all over. Supposedly having the best academy production line but simultaneously having the luxury cash to cover their ar5ses by sweeping up project/fringe talent from around the leagues. Ruan (Donny), Hooley(Batley), Sangare(Toulouse), McDonald(Wigan) and Roberts(Leigh). Nearly Aydin.

Four of those five will probably end up with careers elsewhere. Nice when you can afford it.

Ruen wanted first team rugby, which he got, and subsequently shone enough to attract Leeds attention. Whether he was offered a full time deal with Trinity I don't know, but we could not have given him the game time he ultimately got so it was the right decision for the player to leave, that's just how it goes sometimes, and whilst it's your MO, there's no real need to look for an angle on it.

Ruan wasn’t part of the academy this season. He left at the end of 2021 to Doncaster despite being offered a contract. Rumoured to be because he wanted first team opportunity.



From the successful academy team in 2021 we signed Murphy, Eseh, Windrow, Shaw and O’Donnovan. Eseh and Murphy along with Ruan were the best 3 imo but we managed to keep 2 and made an attempt to keep Ruan too. To me that’s a good effort.



Ruan is no longer a trinity player. Leeds didn’t sign him off us. He may yet turn out to be a good or bad investment for Leeds but it’s not something to have a pop at the club imo.



As I said before Apelgarth has been in his head coach position for 2 weeks at most and Ryan has been training with Leeds 1/2 month and the deal was rumoured to be done before MA was appointed.



We should be applauding the fact from our successful 2021 academy that we have given opportunity to the 5 young players above. There’s clearly an investment there and some of that is down to MA’s recommendations/efforts.



Regards signings, you have to display patience. We will have signings incoming and until they are signed we can’t accurately form our opinions on them or the squad as a whole.



We can all have a chat about perspective signings and offer opinions and play a little super league personal manager game but truly there’s no reason to be lacking confidence until the announcements are made. Half the fun is chatting about players coming in and out and if Ruan had been snatched out of our own academy I wouldn’t have been happy but he’s not a trinity player and just a trinity product who we should wish well to.

Why can't you wait then just like the rest of us....????

You don’t like negativity therefore I suggest you ask our CEO to stop being so because most of the times he comments it relates to how little money we have and the struggle we will face time after time, season after season.

That's as maybe, but he doesn't come on here and moan about that (and anything and everything else) on here like you do all the time.

I suppose you have a significant stake in the club that allows you to call investors out

Again, that is not true.

We've been here before. If you have an opinion, by all means share it but you are currently posting things that are either not true or simply winding individual posters up for their opinion. Stop it now please.

Ruan wasn't released - he chose to take another offer, which gave him more game time. His choice.



Time will tell whether that choice was good/bad, but it was his choice, not the club's.



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I guess this is your new sign off can I suggest you go for the full title Great rather than the abbreviated one you used here. I don’t know why you felt the need to hide what I knew about you based on your previous contributions.

I don't understand this bit. Can you explain?

Cleaned up.

I know the word you used isn't in the swear filter so no big issue but if I leave it there it'll only escalate so let's not.