Re: What we are lacking ... : Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:30 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Thanks for the advice.

With no youth system we have won 3 Challenge Cups in the past four years and are in the Grand Final.

When we start producing our own youngsters how many trophies are we going to win then...?

Why produce your own breed of youngsters when you can steal all of Salfords?

Re: What we are lacking ... : Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:32 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Thanks for the advice.

With no youth system we have won 3 Challenge Cups in the past four years and are in the Grand Final.

When we start producing our own youngsters how many trophies are we going to win then...?

Thats were it all goes wrong, we didn,t have much of a youth system at the time when we won 20 trophies in the super league era. Now that we have a decent youth system we don't win any trophies.

Wish you would hurry up with your youngsters, we are long overdue of signing another Paul Sculthorpe.

Re: What we are lacking ... : Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:22 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Thats were it all goes wrong, we didn,t have much of a youth system at the time when we won 20 trophies in the super league era. Now that we have a decent youth system we don't win any trophies.

Thats because bigger clubs were coming in for your best young talent like Briers.

Re: What we are lacking ... : Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:49 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Thats because bigger clubs were coming in for your best young talent like Briers.

Ba-dum-tsch! Thangyew, thangyew... My name's Sally Cinnamon and I'm here every night folks...

Re: What we are lacking ... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:27 am  

It was interesting in the build up the NRL GF that they were talking about the way Hasler had the Dogs playing.
He was using the forwards as ball palyers to compensate for having less experienced/natural/accomplished halfbacks. It made me think of our deficiencies and perhaps we missed Jammers ball playing mare than we realised.
There are ways and means of getting any team playing, but that's the remit of the coach.
A bit more variety going forward and an improved defnce in our 20 will go a long way.
I also think/hope Brown will break the Lomax Hohaia combination, which will be a real step forward.

Re: What we are lacking ... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:36 pm  

Both our halfs are fullbacks. Neither has a decent kicking game so we turn to wilkin. Close to the line if we cannot barge over we have no idea and no one organising. Robes should be given responsibility to captain the side next year.

Said it at the time and will say it again Matty smith was the best 7 we produced and we sold him. His kicking game far outclasses anything we have or are likely to get.

Re: What we are lacking ... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:58 pm  

smileysmiles wrote:

Both our halfs are fullbacks. Neither has a decent kicking game so we turn to wilkin. Close to the line if we cannot barge over we have no idea and no one organising. Robes should be given responsibility to captain the side next year.

Said it at the time and will say it again Matty smith was the best 7 we produced and we sold him. His kicking game far outclasses anything we have or are likely to get.

Not true.

Re: What we are lacking ... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:00 pm  

smileysmiles wrote:

Said it at the time and will say it again Matty smith was the best 7 we produced and we sold him. His kicking game far outclasses anything we have or are likely to get.

Nonsense. Dig out your videos of the semi and final from 2010 and then tell me that Smith was the answer. He clearly wasn't. Only an idiot would have sold Pryce, Eastmond or Wheeler at the time to keep him and we made absolutely the right decision to offload him.

Re: What we are lacking ... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:04 pm  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

Nonsense. Dig out your videos of the semi and final from 2010 and then tell me that Smith was the answer. He clearly wasn't. Only an idiot would have sold Pryce, Eastmond or Wheeler at the time to keep him and we made absolutely the right decision to offload him.

Well seemingly only one of those is currently at the club and let's be honest wheeler is not fit to lace smiths boots.

Re: What we are lacking ... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:12 pm  

smileysmiles wrote:

Well seemingly only one of those is currently at the club and let's be honest wheeler is not fit to lace smiths boots.

Nonsense again. Smith is the dictionary definition of average. You may be happy building a team around average (and I bet you're one of the kneejerkers who come on here screaming about our lack of "ambition" in recruitment every 2 minutes) but I'm not. Wheeler runs rings 'round him in terms of talent all day long. I'd sooner take a chance on a potentially great player who may or not make it over a thoroughly uninspiring and totally middle of the road player who will never be anything but.