Re: Josh Griffin : Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:07 am  

Richard1 wrote:

Griffin had good games at Wakefield as a winger. As a centre i thought he was not as good. Against leeds at home he played centre and in defence it lead to Watkins scoring 3 or 4 on the wing due to him tackling the wrong man inside. He always seemed better on the wing for me. I think he is a SL standard winger (and has played fullback in the academy i think).

Spot on - I believe it was his spell in the centre that saw him fall out of favour with Wakey fans; he was atrocious.

As it stands, he's looking like a potent winger; 7 tries in 3 games - that equals his tally with us for us a whole season.

Re: Josh Griffin : Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:04 am  

bren2k wrote:

Spot on - I believe it was his spell in the centre that saw him fall out of favour with Wakey fans; he was atrocious.

As it stands, he's looking like a potent winger; 7 tries in 3 games - that equals his tally with us for us a whole season.

Yup. It makes perfect sense. His positional play is a bit shocking at times. On the wing, you can get away with it, in the centre forget it. He is a good finisher and we have 3 centres (that is excluding McGoldrick who is too fat and slow and Ferres who isn't a centre but did a half decent job last season) so why bother?

Use Grehan and Thompson for now. When Arudal is back problem solved.

Re: Josh Griffin : Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:13 pm  

By a country mile Josh is not the finish article yet, however when we've got Millward back in camp I'm sure that he'll work in his positional play and defense. He does at least know where to score a try.....which is always a good starting block.

Goldy however, IMO, has had very little to offer us for quite a few years now.

Re: Josh Griffin : Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:44 am  

I've been genuinely impressed with him so far to be honest. I don't think he has any flaws that can't be worked on with the help of experienced players and a good coach, and we have both of those. I guess we just have to be patient with him, but I certainly hope he maintains his current strike rate.

Re: Josh Griffin : Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:09 pm  

Good attacking wise but defence is woeful. Hopefully this will be rectified with the right training.