[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:20 pm  

AJ Viking wrote:

Playing 6 or 7 isn't what I meant by pivotal players. If you're expecting a game plan on show or go then great but surely all these players are playmakers, you can't have so many in the team otherwise the structure breaks down.

I agree AJ, but I think this move will give us much more balance. Penky is a great player but is not a number 6. His game is off the cuff and not structured, as such when our forwards are being dominated he struggles more than most. Hopefully LB will sign and give us a weapon to unlock 'static' defences as well as defences on the back foot.

: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:33 pm  

Reckon Govin will leave then?

With Gleeson & Penky signed for 9 and Beswick as added cover there?

: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:41 pm  

J20 wrote:

Reckon Govin will leave then?

With Gleeson & Penky signed for 9 and Beswick as added cover there?

Possibly, although if royston is leaving and going back to oz i would expect beswick to play 13, this would allow govin to be cover for 6,7,9 and 13. Although i can't see that we would let Anthony Bowman leave otherwise there wasn't really any point in signing him this year.

: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:34 pm  

Blueboy wrote:

Possibly, although if royston is leaving and going back to oz i would expect beswick to play 13, this would allow govin to be cover for 6,7,9 and 13. Although i can't see that we would let Anthony Bowman leave otherwise there wasn't really any point in signing him this year.

But would he even get a bench spot there?

7 - Black
6 - Branighan
9 - Penky
13 - Beswick
14 - Gleeson

Then have Bowman as ya back up! I can think of a nice place he could go

: Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:15 pm  

J20 wrote:

But would he even get a bench spot there?

7 - Black
6 - Branighan
9 - Penky
13 - Beswick
14 - Gleeson

Then have Bowman as ya back up! I can think of a nice place he could go

Not sure, suppose it'd be upto him to fight for a spot and Branighan hasn't been signed/announced yet. Govins been pretty good when he's played this year, although everybody was at the start of the year. He's just incredibly unlucky with injury.