Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:50 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

YOUR appraisal of Dan Brotherton.

I know you like to remind us how inferior our youngsters are, rogues , but from reading the reviews, Brotherton sounds like a good template of a modern day superleague winger, ie he's big, no slouch over the distance, supports well and can apparently jump higher than his opposition when needed.
Unless he has some big flaws in his game, I would have thought we'd see him at least get a run out next season.

I arrived to see them clapped off last week, but posted from my phone on how big our no 12 was. One of the regular posters suggested correctly that it was Joe Greenwood. I'm pretty sure I've heard you mention his name as impressing when you've seen him?

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:04 pm  

Donkey OTay wrote:

Good luck to the lad. I hope he stays a Saint and gets a good deal. There are many people employed as 'Managers' or 'Business Development Managers' at Saints getting a lot more money than Foster.

He can't be on that little. He's just bought himself a Beemer!

We all know that Saints are negotiating with the young players at present because Simmons shared that information with us when talking about getting a new prop - whether there would be space on the salary cap.

At the end of the day, Jamie hasn't yet played for a full season. He has to be balanced with the needs of the team as a whole.

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:30 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

At the end of the day, Jamie hasn't yet played for a full season. He has to be balanced with the needs of the team as a whole.

Exactly. It swing both ways. He's done very well for us, but saints have made him at the same time. He wouldn't look so clever running up and down the wing for Salford, or kicking 1 goal a week for Quins on their current form.

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:54 pm  

Im not fishing, in my opinion all you would miss is he's goal kicking. Offers very little in attack and rarely seems to beat a man, alos doesn't seem to be very quick for a winger.

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:56 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

I love it when people say "If he wasn't such a good kicker he'd be an average winger"

Ok but HE IS a good kicker so what's your argument.

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The arguement is, that goal kicking has absoulutely nothing to do with being a good winger.

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:59 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Those qualities make him a must for our first team.

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Meli and Makinson are your best wingers.

Foster, for me, is a very average winger, not much pace, rarely beats a man, never seen him score from over 30 yards out. Doesnt have the "X factor" like wingers such as Richards, Monaghan, Briscoe, even Broughton at Salford who I was very impressed with on Sunday.

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:11 pm  

21-12 wrote:

Meli and Makinson are your best wingers.

Foster, for me, is a very average winger, not much pace, rarely beats a man, never seen him score from over 30 yards out. Doesnt have the "X factor" like wingers such as Richards, Monaghan, Briscoe, even Broughton at Salford who I was very impressed with on Sunday.

What kind of X-Factor does Patricia Richards have? He scores a few from kicks, but he's no faster than Wellens and couldn't beat a man if he had a golf club and the man was asleep.

Take Richards goalkicking away and he'd be a white Ade Gardner, but dazed and confused about his nationality.

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:15 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

What kind of X-Factor does Patricia Richards have? He scores a few from kicks, but he's no faster than Wellens and couldn't beat a man if he had a golf club and the man was asleep.

Take Richards goalkicking away and he'd be a white Ade Gardner, but dazed and confused about his nationality.

Well, hes not man of steel for nothing Saddo, some of pats tries are spectacular and any club in SL would take him whether you admit it or not, can you say that about Foster? As for him being no faster than Wellens, what an absoulute plank you are, he's officially the fastest player at our club and has scored more 80+ yard tries than any other winger in SL over the last few seasons. Poor attempt Saddo, il await your fantastic response.

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:02 pm  

Foster has good footwork/balance, ideal on the wing, his kicking is exceptional, and if you see some of his tries you see the lad does have pace. Plus the try in which he catches the ball behind his back took a bit of skill.

I'd rather have foster than Charnley any day of the week

Re: Foster leaving? : Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:05 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

He can't be on that little. He's just bought himself a Beemer!

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It's all relative of course, but the important thing to him is that he's on less than the other players of similar age.