Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:58 pm  

Willie Manu - I genuinely believe he's the best signing we've made in about 5 years.

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:14 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Judging by his tweets we'll either have to find Walmsley a house in St Helens or another club. He's already moaning about the travelling and it's only his second week.

He was hardly moaning, these are his tweets:

Alex Walmsley wrote:

So I've moved like 50 metres in 20mins...must be a really bad crash ahead... #latefortraining

Alex Walmsley wrote:

Ha thanks for all the traffic advice... On some random road through Bury at the moment... I WILL get to training #determined #butlost

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:35 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

He was hardly moaning, these are his tweets:

That's just today. There have probably been two a day, I remember one about the minging traffic on the M62 and him being starving and another about the Stone Roses being the only thing keeping him sane on his 90 minute journeys.

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:39 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

That's just today. There have probably been two a day, I remember one about the minging traffic on the M62 and him being starving and another about the Stone Roses being the only thing keeping him sane on his 90 minute journeys.

Fair enough, I'm not particularly a twitter user so haven't seen those tweets.

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:11 pm  

I'm most excited about Manu, I've been a fan of him from the first time I saw him when he was at cas.

I'm also interested to see Walmsley gets on, I like to see a guy from the lower league get a shot at super league. I don't think we sign enough or even ool for players from the lower leagues.

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:29 pm  

I looking forward to seeing Manu in action hopefully will get lots of ball be intresting to see who brown starts in the backrow

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:02 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

Offloads...... errr nope.

Offloads=Very rare event

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:05 pm  

Manu, i dont expect massive things from Walmesly this year, he'll need to get used to superleague first

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:21 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Judging by his tweets we'll either have to find Walmsley a house in St Helens or another club. He's already moaning about the travelling and it's only his second week.

I'm not surprised. It can't be fun travelling over the m62 on your own everyday.

According to twitter, I think he is gonna be travelling to oldham and getting on the 'oldham bus' and then travelling with Yates and Greenwood.

Re: The new recruits. : Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:27 pm  

I don't expect anything much from Walmersley for some time. It would be unfair to liken him to Chris Hill as there is quite an age gap. Hill was a mature player when joining super league; whereas Walmersley is a novice in comparison. I have great expectations from Manu and if Perry can produce anything like his Aussie form (we live in hope) then the forwards should be more than capable of bossing the middle.
Turner is a bigish lad with a good turn of speed and if Brown can iron out his faults he will be an exiting prospect.