Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:39 am  

BackrowSaint wrote:

That is true undoubtedly, but I just can't see anything other than Hampshire being a superstar. He's not just got one attribute that sets him out, he's got a quality all round game which is why I'm confident he'll be a very good player.

The Wigan accountants will be happy. They might get 6 months rent paid when they sell him

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:49 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

The Wigan accountants will be happy. They might get 6 months rent paid when they sell him

Indeed.
Who have you got who would be of interest to RFU or NRL?
LMS?

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:47 am  

Itchy Arsenal wrote:

Indeed.
Who have you got who would be of interest to RFU or NRL?
LMS?

Where does one start ?

Lomax, Swift, Walmsley and Roby have already been the subject of NRL interest.

Percival is the best young centre in the country and will soon enough receive interest.

Makinson one of the best wingers in the country.

Walsh voted 7th in the Dally M and tried to get out of the Saints deal because of NRL interest.

Burns an NRL 6.

Amor in the top couple of props in the country.

Luke Thompson is a star in the making who will be the subject of enormous interest. He may have already received offers, to be honest.

Masoe an NRL prop already.

Hohaia a World Cup winning RL player and regular NRL player.


Bit of a stupid question really but what exactly can one expect from these daft Wiganers ?

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:01 am  

Itchy Arsenal wrote:

Indeed.
Who have you got who would be of interest to RFU or NRL?
LMS?

Probably most of them now they're champions.

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:50 am  

SLS wrote:

Amor in the top couple of props in the country.

So in your view is Amor better than Peacock or Hill?

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:29 am  

Aboveusonlypie wrote:

So in your view is Amor better than Peacock or Hill?

I'd say yes.

Peacock is so far past his best it's unreal.

Hill is a good solid prop as is Amor but I think Amor has the edge. Only for injuries last season he would have played for England, possibly instead of Hill.

All opinions I suppose but there you go.

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:58 am  

Peacock would still be #1 in the country if he only played 10-15 games a season. As we saw at the end of last year, it catches him up towards the business end.

Hill for me is the best in the country over the course of a season at the moment followed by Amor, Flower and Huby.

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:08 pm  

Top Saint wrote:

I'd say yes.

Peacock is so far past his best it's unreal.

Hill is a good solid prop as is Amor but I think Amor has the edge. Only for injuries last season he would have played for England, possibly instead of Hill.

All opinions I suppose but there you go.

I thnk Hill's better than Amor (not by much), realistically, but he's a real class act.
Take away Peacock's name and reputation, nag, I reckon Amor's a better player.

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:15 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote: I thnk Hill's better than Amor (not by much), realistically, but he's a real class act. Take away Peacock's name and reputation, nag, I reckon Amor's a better player. Disagree, Peacock is a freak http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/10352 http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/19

Offside Monkey wrote: I thnk Hill's better than Amor (not by much), realistically, but he's a real class act. Take away Peacock's name and reputation, nag, I reckon Amor's a better player. Disagree, Peacock is a freak http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/10352 http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/19

Re: New Year Sales at Wigan : Thu Jan 22, 2015 1:06 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote: Disagree, Peacock is a freak http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/10352 http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/19 I know where you're coming from, we've all seen Peacock have those weeks when he just keeps going and going. He certainly has an aura of relentlessness about him that helps drive his team. Amor's very important to us, something we realised when he missed large parts of last season, but he doesn't carry us like sometime it seems Peacock does for the Leeds go forward. Perhaps we do a better job of sharing the work, or perhaps its forced upon him by a less than dynamic pari of replacement props at Leeds. I'm not sure. I don't know how many appearences of minutes on the field each player had, but generally with props, tackles made is a decent indicator. I'd suggest PEacock played a lot more minutes than Amor. I'm not doing Peacock down in any way, as he is a legend, but we've seen matches (normally when Leeds lose) when people go for Peacock to tire him in defence and he starts to look raggedy. I remember Paul Gallen strolling through a gap he should have filled in for a game breaking try in one of his final internationals. Amor has no such weakness in his game, imo. If you're picking an England team, for me, Amor's a better choice these days.

Rogues Gallery wrote: Disagree, Peacock is a freak http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/10352 http://www.superleague.co.uk/matchday/player/19 I know where you're coming from, we've all seen Peacock have those weeks when he just keeps going and going. He certainly has an aura of relentlessness about him that helps drive his team. Amor's very important to us, something we realised when he missed large parts of last season, but he doesn't carry us like sometime it seems Peacock does for the Leeds go forward. Perhaps we do a better job of sharing the work, or perhaps its forced upon him by a less than dynamic pari of replacement props at Leeds. I'm not sure. I don't know how many appearences of minutes on the field each player had, but generally with props, tackles made is a decent indicator. I'd suggest PEacock played a lot more minutes than Amor. I'm not doing Peacock down in any way, as he is a legend, but we've seen matches (normally when Leeds lose) when people go for Peacock to tire him in defence and he starts to look raggedy. I remember Paul Gallen strolling through a gap he should have filled in for a game breaking try in one of his final internationals. Amor has no such weakness in his game, imo. If you're picking an England team, for me, Amor's a better choice these days.