Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:23 pm  

We were in for Griffin, Hill also went for a fee IIRC, it was the reason I was told we didn't go for him. Wire swooped and were willing to pay the fee.

Dudson and Flower have hardly played (and isn't one a second rower?) I wouldn't have touched Lauaki with a bargepole.

I'm not sure any of those others who we could have signed, seeing as we haven't any quota space and that discounts the Aussies you've named would have improved us at all tbh.

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:32 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

We were in for Griffin, Hill also went for a fee IIRC, it was the reason I was told we didn't go for him. Wire swooped and were willing to pay the fee.

Dudson and Flower have hardly played (and isn't one a second rower?) I wouldn't have touched Lauaki with a bargepole.

I'm not sure any of those others who we could have signed, seeing as we haven't any quota space and that discounts the Aussies you've named would have improved us at all tbh.

Hill's fee was the value of his contract and I'm sure I read it was in the region of £10,000. We could afford that surely. He's a player who is going to give Warrington at least 8 years of quality rugby if he keeps developing as he is now. It certainly wasn't the hundreds of thousands we paid for Scully back in the days when we wanted to win trophies.

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:42 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Hill's fee was the value of his contract and I'm sure I read it was in the region of £10,000. We could afford that surely. He's a player who is going to give Warrington at least 8 years of quality rugby if he keeps developing as he is now. It certainly wasn't the hundreds of thousands we paid for Scully back in the days when we wanted to win trophies.

We've just made a £2 million loss, maybe we couldn't.

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:05 pm  

wakey_saint wrote:

Wellens has played 20 games, Hodgson has played 14, yet Wellens has scored almost 3 x as many tries as Hodgson, not far from 3 x as many tackle busts, 3 x as many clean breaks, his average gain with the ball per game is much higher and Wello has made 3 less errors than him...therefore the analysis represents Wellens to have played about 25% more games than Hodgson, yet a lot of his statistics are well over 50% better than Hodgson has managed...and apparently Hodgson is worth a 2 year deal yet Wello doesnt deserve anything??

One thing you need to take into consideration when comparing statistics with Wellens and Brett, is that TS plays Brett mostly in the big games against the best sides when its more difficult to score trys , make metres etc etc. Whereas Wellens has played most of your games which include the likes of Broncos, Widnes, Wakey & Cas against whom it is easier to make hay.

It has been rumoured that Saints offered Brett a 2 year contract before he resigned for Warrington. Who would you rather play FullBack for Saints, Wellens or Brett?

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:15 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

We were in for Griffin, Hill also went for a fee IIRC, it was the reason I was told we didn't go for him. Wire swooped and were willing to pay the fee.

Dudson and Flower have hardly played (and isn't one a second rower?) I wouldn't have touched Lauaki with a bargepole.

I'm not sure any of those others who we could have signed, seeing as we haven't any quota space and that discounts the Aussies you've named would have improved us at all tbh.

We did have a quota spot for a prop but it was taking up by Laffranchi who's a backrow.

I'm totally shocked that we replaced James Graham with laffranchci.

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:23 pm  

St pete wrote:

I'm totally shocked that we replaced James Graham with laffranchci.

I totally agree we really should have brought in an all action front rower to replace who was the best Front Rower in Super League. That was a major blunder in my book.

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:25 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

You could equally say the same about wigoon, if you supported them, who would you keep? Tomkins. Who else? Difficult to pick any standout players that you would bust a gut to save, but as a team they are far better than the sum of their individual abilities. The most important person at Wigan was McGuire, not the players. As pete says, we have lacked a top coach for a fee years, I'm still not convinced brown is a top coach

are you lot still trying to convince your selves that player for player you have the better squad?

here my list:

tomkins
charnley
goulding been fantastic this season and is a true Centre
carmont wish he was only 23 so he could carry on
pat richards when fit
finch
tommy
smith don't know why you lot don't rate him because looked very good so far and i wouldn't swap him for any of your halves
lima
McIlorum
mossop
hock
hansen
o'loughlin

and as you have included fringe players in your list

dudson
farrell
powell
hughes
thornley/gelling

but lima and tommy are leaving. finch hasn't signed for any one yet and carmont hasn't decided

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:25 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

You could equally say the same about wigoon, if you supported them, who would you keep? Tomkins. Who else? Difficult to pick any standout players that you would bust a gut to save, but as a team they are far better than the sum of their individual abilities. The most important person at Wigan was McGuire, not the players. As pete says, we have lacked a top coach for a fee years, I'm still not convinced brown is a top coach

are you lot still trying to convince your selves that player for player you have the better squad?

here my list:

tomkins
charnley
goulding been fantastic this season and is a true Centre
carmont wish he was only 23 so he could carry on
pat richards when fit
finch
tommy
smith don't know why you lot don't rate him because looked very good so far and i wouldn't swap him for any of your halves
lima
McIlorum
mossop
hock
hansen
o'loughlin

and as you have included fringe players in your list

dudson
farrell
powell
hughes
thornley/gelling

but lima and tommy are leaving. finch hasn't signed for any one yet and carmont hasn't decided

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:28 pm  

on_the_charge wrote:

I totally agree we really should have brought in an all action front rower to replace who was the best Front Rower in Super League. That was a major blunder in my book.

We should have least got the best prop available.

Re: Who to keep. : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:31 pm  

St pete wrote:

We should have least got the best prop available.

Ive allways said Andy Lynch would have been ideal failing that Chris Hill......