Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sat Oct 04, 2014 6:36 am  

bullsonfire wrote:

Doesn't say much for Wakefield's medical staff then. If his knee was that bad they'd have had him in for surgery surely?

If they were interested in keeping him maybe, but they got rid. He went to Fev on loan and was dire and they sent him back before his loan period was complete......reading their forums at the time they labelled him as the worst half back ever to represent the club.
He was still under contract for 2015 at wakefield so they may have kept it hush hush to get him off the payroll and maybe get a little transfer fee in the bargain

Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:49 am  

quinny, looks like you don't rate him then!

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Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sat Oct 04, 2014 8:18 am  

This curious feathfield feedback doesn't worry me. He may well have been nursing his injury and will be a different player in 2015.

Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sat Oct 04, 2014 9:04 am  

must be pretty secret if a blogger knows about it.
Jimmy and Steve said they knew how they wanted the scrum half to play and that was the most important selection criterion. thats the benefit of building a team from scratch, no compromising your game plan because you have to accommodate players already in contract, you choose the style first then the player to fit.

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Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sat Oct 04, 2014 9:09 am  

quinny wrote:

If you really believe that Hide & Seeka is going to be your go to man then your in for a nasty surprise and I hope you have back up in place.
You will be begging for Gale Back by the time the season starts

I was never one who slated Gale, though there were a few around the place who did and whilst I'd have been far from devastated to have kept him, I don't think he's anyone's dream half either. As for Harry, well we'll wait and see, though we do have a reputation for taking on unfancied young players struggling to reach their high potential before a bad injury set them back. We're probably around fity fifty with those...

Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:04 pm  

I'm not too concerned about how his time at Wakey or Rovers went. He has shown his quality in the past and with the right environment and when fully fit there is every chance he can play like that again.

Just look at Etu Uaisele. For various reasons it didn't work for him at Rovers at all and then he went to Sheffield on loan, has a great time and scores 8 tries in 8 games. His comments in the recent article on the Bulls site were that his career stagnated at Featherstone and he fell out of love with the game.

Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sat Oct 04, 2014 6:03 pm  

quinny wrote:

If they were interested in keeping him maybe, but they got rid. He went to Fev on loan and was dire and they sent him back before his loan period was complete......reading their forums at the time they labelled him as the worst half back ever to represent the club.
He was still under contract for 2015 at wakefield so they may have kept it hush hush to get him off the payroll and maybe get a little transfer fee in the bargain

His contract was for only one season. He was one of our first signings who probably came over because of his previous injury problems. We did not see the best of him because of the visa problems. I suppose it is now up to him to prove that with a full pre season he can return to the form he had earlier in his career.

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Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:49 am  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

His contract was for only one season. He was one of our first signings who probably came over because of his previous injury problems. We did not see the best of him because of the visa problems. I suppose it is now up to him to prove that with a full pre season he can return to the form he had earlier in his career.

sssh. Writing reasoned sense won't catch on.

Re: New Signings/Re-Signings : Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:47 am  

I hear he is a bit of an expert on South East Asian food which will do for me . I look forward to sharing s bowl of pork balls with the young lad in the directors box at some stage next season.