Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:20 am  

Good look to walters, not super league standard but could excel at this level, and maybe the super league door is not fully closed. did not deserve the stick he got, always plenty of effort, and he will always have that dream grand final winning try.

Ormanroyd, we he was never ever good enough a very average championship squad filler, do not know what we ever saw in him in the first place, hopefully the last of these type of second class project players.

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:14 pm  

Good Luck to both Omanroyd and Walters, both gave their best to the cause and unfortunately it hasn't worked out as we all hoped. It did however show just how poor recruitment was between McD and Hetherington and the performances last year showed a real lack of class. At least with these two leaving we may be in a position to buy a quality prop forward later in the year. Again with McD gone, and before Furner started who ever agreed to give a 2 year deal to Ablett when he had already announced he was off to OZ to play second grade rugby and be a plumber, then JJB was given a 1 year deal, we could have gone out and bought a top quality prop with this money. Ablett and JJB was top draw players of the highest quality but now father time has caught up with them both, yet we gave them both contracts. Ablett isn't fit JJB is not in the plans to play. This money could have been better used, and it does show a little of the old boys net work. While I do not begrudge these two guys a living, after all they are legends of the Rhinos, it was time for these two chaps to have been made to retire.

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:28 pm  

The Eagle wrote:

Garbutt was moved on to get Merrin in. We still needed a prop after he signed but looked like we still needed cap space

In true pantomime style.....Oh no he wasn’t

We signed and announced Merrin before Garbutt left which then filled our quota

We released Garbutt to free up a quota spot to sign Zeb but that deal collapsed/was put on hold as Giants were not interested in a player(s) exchange and we needed to release players to be able to bring him in given the reported wages he’s on at Giants

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:30 pm  

Brodie123 wrote:

Good Luck to both Omanroyd and Walters, both gave their best to the cause and unfortunately it hasn't worked out as we all hoped. It did however show just how poor recruitment was between McD and Hetherington and the performances last year showed a real lack of class. At least with these two leaving we may be in a position to buy a quality prop forward later in the year. Again with McD gone, and before Furner started who ever agreed to give a 2 year deal to Ablett when he had already announced he was off to OZ to play second grade rugby and be a plumber, then JJB was given a 1 year deal, we could have gone out and bought a top quality prop with this money. Ablett and JJB was top draw players of the highest quality but now father time has caught up with them both, yet we gave them both contracts. Ablett isn't fit JJB is not in the plans to play. This money could have been better used, and it does show a little of the old boys net work. While I do not begrudge these two guys a living, after all they are legends of the Rhinos, it was time for these two chaps to have been made to retire.

Surely Ablett and JJB were Sinfield's decision

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:00 pm  

The Magic Rat wrote:

Surely Ablett and JJB were Sinfield's decision

We also don’t know what salary those boys are on; I would doubt they are being paid as much now as they were at peak, but could be wrong.
It’s the other senior players in the squad we must get right: Ablett and JJB both still have something to offer at times this year IMO. I’m looking at Peteru, Ferres, Sutcliffe, Singleton, Cuthbertson, Parcell, Handley this season because they all should be adding something to the first team or make way for someone else/an academy prospect. There is some serious salary wedge in that group and a couple of valuable overseas spots.

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:13 pm  

rollin thunder wrote:

Good look to walters, not super league standard but could excel at this level, and maybe the super league door is not fully closed. did not deserve the stick he got, always plenty of effort, and he will always have that dream grand final winning try.

Ormanroyd, we he was never ever good enough a very average championship squad filler, do not know what we ever saw in him in the first place, hopefully the last of these type of second class project players.

The comment about Ormondroyd is very easy to make with the benefit of hindsight.

At the time Leeds signed him, he had improved massively at Featherstone in a very short period of time and in the space of a few months had gone from being a fringe member of the Fev squad to playing well enough to be on the radar of several SL clubs given one important factor about him - he didn't start playing rugby league until he was 16.

At the time Leeds signed him, it would have been hard to assess whether his sudden improvement would continue or plateau. As it turns out, it has been the latter and I wouldn't say he has improved over the last couple of years, but that's sometimes how things go.

Think the current moves for both he and Walters are the right moves for all concerned.

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 2:22 pm  

The Magic Rat wrote:

Surely Ablett and JJB were Sinfield's decision

Both players could have earned more money over the years playing elsewhere, suspect this years contracts are sweatners for long service and both are jyst squad fillers, however there value of the field as role models to the young players cannot be undervalued, JJB maybe both will have back room jobs at the club next few years.

[Bullseye]

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 2:51 pm  

Walters was very average for Fev vs us last week I can see why you got rid.

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:48 pm  

Not before time.

Thanks for the GF winning try but was never a SL player in a million years.Hopefully more dead wood to follow.

Re: OUT 2019 | Josh Walters - Featherstone Rovers : Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:40 pm  

Superted wrote:

Cronulla Sharks are rumoured to be about to lose a 'big name player' as part of their impending salary cap breach punishment. A Fifita, Gallen (even at his age) or Woods would do nicely, though highly unlikely.

It’s Kyle Turner the forward Souths are trying to offload