Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:20 pm  

Devastating blow

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:20 pm  

theblondebomber wrote:

Is it worth dipping into the championship and picking up an old head 7 and dangle a 2 contract in their face?

That's the definition of a panic buy.

There's no point giving a championship player a relatively expensive 2 year contract if one of our kids can do it better - That's before even getting into who in the championship would be capable of stepping up, and fit the role we need them to play. I don't know enough about the championship to say, but before demanding we sign xyz the club need to make sure any cover signings (if we can even make any) would do more good than harm.

1,6,7 out going into the playoffs, you couldn't make it up

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:22 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

That's the definition of a panic buy.

There's no point giving a championship player a relatively expensive 2 year contract if one of our kids can do it better - That's before even getting into who in the championship would be capable of stepping up, and fit the role we need them to play. I don't know enough about the championship to say, but before demanding we sign xyz the club need to make sure any cover signings (if we can even make any) would do more good than harm.

1,6,7 out going into the playoffs, you couldn't make it up

Wheeler and Wilkin as our halves now.... That will be changed the week after next...

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:23 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Even if I could trust wheeler to last more than 10 minutes (let alone 10 games) he's not the leader and game manager we need on the pitch

That's great; writing him off already.
Nobody is having a go at walsh for all his injuries this year. Talk about dual standards.
BTW I am a massive fan of Luke and hope he has a successful rehabilitation in time for next season. It must be gut wrenching for him.
Time to get round the team we have.

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:27 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

That's great; writing him off already.
Nobody is having a go at walsh for all his injuries this year. Talk about dual standards.
BTW I am a massive fan of Luke and hope he has a successful rehabilitation in time for next season. It must be gut wrenching for him.
Time to get round the team we have.

After Walsh has done this 6 years in a row, I'll say the same about Walsh - every player goes through periods of injury after injury, not every player gets the patience Wheeler had. Wheelers best number of appearances is 12, and you're pinning our remaining hopes of halfbacks this season on wheeler managing 10 on the bounce?

I was a big fan of wheeler, and was very excited on the opening game of the season that he was finally going to step up after these 6 long years and take his chance. Hasn't worked that way though.

Anyway, Wheeler is a run I halfback, not a game manager. He may be the answer to Hohaia being out, he isn't the answer to Walsh being out.

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:29 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

That's the definition of a panic buy.

There's no point giving a championship player a relatively expensive 2 year contract if one of our kids can do it better - That's before even getting into who in the championship would be capable of stepping up, and fit the role we need them to play. I don't know enough about the championship to say, but before demanding we sign xyz the club need to make sure any cover signings (if we can even make any) would do more good than harm.

1,6,7 out going into the playoffs, you couldn't make it up

Not really. Look at our playing roster? We have wheeler and charnock who should of been given game time this year but hasn't. So we just have wheeler. I don't want us to move 8 players around to fill 1 position. We played better when GOB slotted in and wasn't on the canvas.

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:36 pm  

theblondebomber wrote:

Not really. Look at our playing roster? We have wheeler and charnock who should of been given game time this year but hasn't. So we just have wheeler. I don't want us to move 8 players around to fill 1 position. We played better when GOB slotted in and wasn't on the canvas.

a) Championship players aren't that cheap - you don't just have to match their rugby salary - but salary from elsewhere too - £40-50k minimum - yes, we are desperate at this moment, BUT in 12 months time, when were scrambling around for a halfback of any quality to replace Walsh (if he leaves) that 40-50k would be very useful in throwing a big contract at someone - sometimes the short term loss of having to move players around is worth the long term gain of SC flexibility.

b) it still doesn't answer the question of who would ACTUALLY do a better job then Wilkin, who already knows all the structures, and has played there for the best part of 2 years now. On top of that, game managers are rare, and clubs aren't going to be willing to lose them without a fight.

c) I wanted to sign gob when we had the chance at the start of the year for precisely that reason.

d) fortunately we may actually get a few days to think about it, wheeler and Wilkin will be the combo at hull - but then we have a week to consider our position and move accordingly.

Edit: IF we have cap space - Jacob Miller (on loan)?

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:41 pm  

Maybe we should try a loan deal with someone. Who's London or bulls halves?

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:43 pm  

Can someone find that buggering gypsy who put the injury curse on all our best players, and pay whatever price she's demanding to lift it.

Re: walsh injury : Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:43 pm  

St pete wrote:

Maybe we should try a loan deal with someone. Who's London or bulls halves?

Luke Gale - Josh Drinkwater

Drinkwater had a great kicking game when we played them last week, but was dire in defence and would be targetted mercilessly. I still can't decide if Gale is an ultra over rated halfback or just poorly done to by a pack that doesn't do anything...