Re: Flannery : Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:36 pm  

He worked hard tonight.

Did he drop the ball at all? I lost count in the end of who dropped the ball because everyone seemed to be getting in on the act - again.

Re: Flannery : Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:40 pm  

Absolutely top notch defensive performance tonight, and a well taken try to boot.
If off-quota, then it's a no-brainer for next season. Keep.

Re: Flannery : Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:02 am  

Keep for me, he is a better option of Dixon or Foster.

Re: Flannery : Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:11 am  

Keep for me not had a bad season

Re: Flannery : Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:52 pm  

Last year I would have booted him out, he offered very little for me and the young players looked like good prospects. However with the loss of Emmitt and the young players not moving forwards in the pack this year, and flannery looking much more comfortable in the 2nd row. He's a no brain keeper now.

Re: Flannery : Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:33 pm  

For me he's not worth a quota spot. They should be for player like TP, Soliola, Perry etc, not your (slightly above) average grafting second rower. The fact we got rid of Glimour and got him is comical to me

Re: Flannery : Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:11 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

For me he's not worth a quota spot. They should be for player like TP, Soliola, Perry etc, not your (slightly above) average grafting second rower. The fact we got rid of Glimour and got him is comical to me

According to people on here his departure wouldn't free up any overseas places anyway as we're at 5 overseas and Flannery only counts as non-fed trained or something?

Re: Flannery : Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:18 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

According to people on here his departure wouldn't free up any overseas places anyway as we're at 5 overseas and Flannery only counts as non-fed trained or something?

non fed is basically the same, but He's still going to be on a decent wedge as he was signed as a current SOO player, and he isnt worth that IMO

Re: Flannery : Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:02 am  

bewareshadows wrote:

Last year I would have booted him out, he offered very little for me and the young players looked like good prospects. However with the loss of Emmitt and the young players not moving forwards in the pack this year, and flannery looking much more comfortable in the 2nd row. He's a no brain keeper now.

Flannery did ok last year. He played pretty well when it was his turn to cover our other centre spot.

Re: Flannery : Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:37 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

For me he's not worth a quota spot. They should be for player like TP, Soliola, Perry etc, not your (slightly above) average grafting second rower. The fact we got rid of Glimour and got him is comical to me

Can we just clarify getting rid of Flannery would not change anything in regards to bringing in another player.

Flannery is under the old quota system as is meli. The quota system no longer exsists except for those signed under it in years gone by.

The rules now are non-fed and federation trained.

You can have 5 non-fed players ( we already have 5 non-fed players for next year)
TP
Soliola
Perry
Laffranchi
Lance

Quota players are exempt from this list, but you can't sign new quota players, just let the old ones be exempt from the new rules.

So we have Meli and Flannery. If we got rid of Flannery, we could only either replace from within Saints, from another UK player or from a quota player from another team and these are reducing fast. The only one I can think who maybe up for grabs would be Steve Menzies from Le catalan.

Personally I'd keep Flannery and sign menzies if we could as I just don't think Dixon, AShurst and Megennis have stepped up enough to turf out Flannery yet. I would not go so far as to say they will never make it, especially as Megenis has only had 1 year, but no point throwing out Flannery at the moment IMHO.