Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:28 am  

glow wrote:

Don’t think so, as far as I know he’s always been at Leigh, been playing regularly for the first team since he was 17, doing that in the front row even in the Championship is a tough ask. He’s very loyal, he refused to go to seeking trophies etc with the better club of St Pats as a kid to stay with his team mates at New Springs (I think it was), and although no Leigh fans would begrudge him the opportunity to play SL, it wouldn’t surprise anyone if he decided to stayed.

At his age if a team like Saints come knocking and he refuses he would be a fool imo, if it doesnt work out he will get a club back at Championship level and if it does work outhe'll be quids in so it's pretty much risk free.

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:36 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

At his age if a team like Saints come knocking and he refuses he would be a fool imo, if it doesnt work out he will get a club back at Championship level and if it does work outhe'll be quids in so it's pretty much risk free.

I’m not saying this about Chris as I don’t know what he does, nor how much he gets paid (by Leigh or anyone else), but not everyone wants to be a full time RL player, have you ever thought that its possible for some players in the Championship, to earn more playing part time and having a ‘proper’ job the rest of the week, than being one of the poorer paid SL players?

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:42 am  

He didn't start at Saints no, and glow has got it correct about his amateur teams too, there was a decent bunch of current SL and National League players came though that year at New Springs.

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:44 am  

Put it this way, he looked a lot better than Emmitt when he was DR at Leigh last year and he's making waves at Cas now.

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:57 am  

WHERESYERBALL wrote:

Hes good enough for any SL side. Just becuse he plays in the Championship doesn't meen he doesn't have all the quality of a SL prop if you did sign him you would soon see he's good enough.

quite agree with all that

the other one to look out for (IMO of course) is Brendan Worth at Toulouse - he could be a really good prop with the right coaching and with better players around him - he's going nowhere at the moment with the di@@@ead he's working under at present.
He's really beefed up this season and has added to his overall game - Catalans were sniffing around in the close-season but Fakir decided to stay and Paea came in.

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:58 pm  

From what people have posted so far he sounds like a good signing for us as long as he wasnt brought in as a direct replacement for Jammer.

I know some players earn good money away from the game and maybe thats his reason for sticking at Leigh, will be interesting to see if we pursue it

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:16 pm  

What's important about props is that you have a good set.
Look what happened to our game when Graham and Tony were off the pitch against Wigan.
Wigan won the league with a modest yet determined set of 4 props.

Realistically, if we could start a game with Perry, LMS and Puletua on the pitch with Clough and another good superleague standard prop on the bench we'll be absolutely fine in any weather, especially with the way Soliola's supporting them.

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:20 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

What's important about props is that you have a good set.
Look what happened to our game when Graham and Tony were off the pitch against Wigan.
Wigan won the league with a modest yet determined set of 4 props.

Realistically, if we could start a game with Perry, LMS and Puletua on the pitch with Clough and another good superleague standard prop on the bench we'll be absolutely fine in any weather, especially with the way Soliola's supporting them.

Yeah , the trick will be keeping Perry fit it seems. Chris Hill sounds like he could be a gamble worth taking, if he's as good as the Leigh fans say and he makes the step up we could end up with a gem.. and he's not an Aussie !

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Sun May 01, 2011 7:02 am  

glow wrote:

Don’t think so, as far as I know he’s always been at Leigh, been playing regularly for the first team since he was 17, doing that in the front row even in the Championship is a tough ask. He’s very loyal, he refused to go to seeking trophies etc with the better club of St Pats as a kid to stay with his team mates at New Springs (I think it was), and although no Leigh fans would begrudge him the opportunity to play SL, it wouldn’t surprise anyone if he decided to stayed.

he actually started off playing at st pats but dont know when till. played with him for the wigan town teams when younger but he was a year younger but played at our age group. he is a very good player!

Re: Chris Hill ???? : Sun May 01, 2011 8:52 am  

Chris Hill would be a great addition to our pack from what I have seen of him. A real grafter and he has good ball handling skills as well for a Prop. It would be like a duck to water for Hill in Super League and I think he would be a fine signing. McManus take note!!!