Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:45 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

A knock or a gary wheeler knock? after some interesting comments by by brown on the matter I expected to see him in the squad this week, alas it's not to be - he will get his chance over Easter I imagine!

Also sounds like brown is getting frustrated at the Beaumont situation ...

Not been funny but what did he expect with Beaumont? The guy has had many injuries and a couple career threatening injuries.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:56 pm  

It's just a pity he could not be fit for Easter, it's the time you need all your bodies as you will lose people over the period.

Mind you having said all that, he still has plenty of time to beat Perry's attendance record.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:34 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

It's just a pity he could not be fit for Easter, it's the time you need all your bodies as you will lose people over the period.

Mind you having said all that, he still has plenty of time to beat Perry's attendance record.

I think he's already beaten Wheeler's

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:48 pm  

Motherwell Saint wrote:

Pretty strong squad. Personally I'd rest Roby and Jones, play Wlkin at 6 with Lance at 9. This would be my side:

Why not Wheeler at six

Lomax
Makinson
Turner
Dawson
Swift
Wilkin
Walsh
Masoe
Hohaia
Walmsley
Greenwood
Manu
Flanagan

Soliola
Laffranchi
Wellens
Walker

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:49 pm  

St pete wrote:

Not been funny but what did he expect with Beaumont? The guy has had many injuries and a couple career threatening injuries.

We obviously thought we could solve the problem. Tbh, it might be best for all to just write this year off for the guy, get everything right for next year, and then give him a shot ...

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:51 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

We obviously thought we could solve the problem. Tbh, it might be best for all to just write this year off for the guy, get everything right for next year, and then give him a shot ...

I imagine that's been said about him few times in the past

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:10 pm  

St pete wrote:

I imagine that's been said about him few times in the past

Don't doubt it - but next year, if he doesn't play/ prove he's over it, whose gonna take him? It's not even like he's wheeler and he's proven if you get him out there he can perform - he's an unknown quantity from the start.

Tbh, this is what I expected after it was announced. Then he got put beside Amor and Masoe for the preseason stuff and built him up, and I thought he might be pushing for a spot.

On the plus side, it gives Richards and co. chance to over take him in priority

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:43 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Don't doubt it - but next year, if he doesn't play/ prove he's over it, whose gonna take him? It's not even like he's wheeler and he's proven if you get him out there he can perform - he's an unknown quantity from the start.

Tbh, this is what I expected after it was announced. Then he got put beside Amor and Masoe for the preseason stuff and built him up, and I thought he might be pushing for a spot.

On the plus side, it gives Richards and co. chance to over take him in priority

What were your expectations of Beaumont based on? He'd only played a handful of games in 6 years for Hull KR, so even their fans have no idea if he's any good.

A daft signing. I'd love to know who had the brain wave and decided it was worth doing.

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:10 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

What were your expectations of Beaumont based on? He'd only played a handful of games in 6 years for Hull KR, so even their fans have no idea if he's any good.

A daft signing. I'd love to know who had the brain wave and decided it was worth doing.

I had no expectations on how he played. As I said, I had no expectations of him getting close to the squad when it was first announced (it was certainly a head scratcher) - I expected him to be another body (for times like the Easter period) and to play not much more.

Then he got put on the same level as Amor and Masoe during the pre season media events - and brought my expectation up to the level of him being able to fight his way into the team - after all his physical stats (big and heavy!) are as impressive as the other 2 - so maybe we had seen something that others misses due to his injury record - and that we thought we knew how to solve why these injuries kept occurring.

Of course what happened is were yet to see him! That said, given our overall recruitment this year, I'm more than happy to take this one as a duff!

Re: 19 man squad announced for Castleford. : Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:11 pm  

What is up with Beaumont and what did Brown say?