Re: Matt Dawson : Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:39 pm  

The importance of this signing is only weighted correctly once we know the value of other signings.

If we simply have this fella and Walsh. Then it's a poor turn around.

However, when looking at signings in a capped sport, you have to look at the overall turnover for the year. With wingers I'm not overly concerned we've not had an awesome winger since Darren Albert and still managed to play well.

Wingers are really bottom of my worry list. The trouble with today is that everyone wants the inside info on every signing, 2 months before they happen.

Re: Matt Dawson : Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:17 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

If we were looking to allocate a big chunk of cap to a winger when there are such glaring deficiencies in more pivotal positions, I'd be very concerned.

And yet Hudds manage it without having a cack squad , as do Wigan with Charnley , Leeds with Jones -Bishop and Hall etc etc.

so it look like Hudds sign a top winger to be first choice and improve there squad and we sign there 3rd or 4th choice winger to help them free up a crumb of cap space , nothing like scraping the barrell .. great stuff

"world class team for a world class stadium" has never been less apt

Re: Matt Dawson : Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:24 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

And yet Hudds manage it without having a cack squad , as do Wigan with Charnley , Leeds with Jones -Bishop and Hall etc etc.

so it look like Hudds sign a top winger to be first choice and improve there squad and we sign there 3rd or 4th choice winger to help them free up a crumb of cap space , nothing like scraping the barrell .. great stuff

"world class team for a world class stadium" has never been less apt

Couldn't have put it better myself.

Re: Matt Dawson : Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:28 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

If we were looking to allocate a big chunk of cap to a winger when there are such glaring deficiencies in more pivotal positions, I'd be very concerned.

Maybe if we weren't giving Flanagan, Gardner (and Laffranchi?) new contracts we'd be able to bring in more high quality players?

Re: Matt Dawson : Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:08 pm  

Who is the young forward from Leigh who we are being also linked to?

Re: Matt Dawson : Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:27 pm  

Hopkins? It's all gone quiet about him, was linked to Wire too.

Re: Matt Dawson : Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:47 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

And yet Hudds manage it without having a cack squad , as do Wigan with Charnley , Leeds with Jones -Bishop and Hall etc etc.

so it look like Hudds sign a top winger to be first choice and improve there squad and we sign there 3rd or 4th choice winger to help them free up a crumb of cap space , nothing like scraping the barrell .. great stuff

"world class team for a world class stadium" has never been less apt

Just about sums it all up; playing second fiddle to a club which had an average attendance in 2012 of 7709 against ours of over 14,000, although its probably closer for this season.
Perhaps players want to go to clubs that are playing well.

Re: Matt Dawson : Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:11 am  

No offence to any of you lot but Dawson is average at best you must have someone in your ranks somewhere who is as good as he is, if not Greg Johnson at Batley would be a far better bet had a few personal problems in the past but seems to have got over them now

Re: Matt Dawson : Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:32 am  

lepton giant wrote:

No offence to any of you lot but Dawson is average at best you must have someone in your ranks somewhere who is as good as he is, if not Greg Johnson at Batley would be a far better bet had a few personal problems in the past but seems to have got over them now

I'm sure when Brown and Rush were seen at the Batley game last month, Greg Johnson was mentioned.

However bad you think he is, if he's big and reasonably fast he'll be an improvement on Gardner.
The problem is if we then resign Gardner as well.

Besides, he's being given a second chance to put injury behind him and make it, by a coach that obviously beleves in him. Add to that, its for a big club that is out of sorts and will possibly/probably/hopefully be improving (we can't get worse, surely?), its a chance to really make a mark on the game.

Re: Matt Dawson : Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:43 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

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The problem is if we then resign Gardner as well.

It's like the rumours of re-signing Wello when we know he isnt/wont be first choice fullback and is terrible in every other position. Keeping either or both of these guy's would be an appalling decision