Re: New Signings : Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:04 pm  

I think Pick will go well at Fev as they are a strong attacking side and that is where his strength lays.

He might also be left less exposed than he was at Bradford. Yes, his cover defence and one-on-one is shocking, but the amount of time he has been put to the test has not been fair.

Can't imagine Fev's team going missing for large spells too often and letting the opposition break through the middle at will like we seem to do.

A few years back he was under pressure from the fans as he was making so many mistakes and Kear stuck with him. Now he's come out the other end and he ends up leaving. Loyalty for you, but I guess its business at the end of the day.

Looking at next year, I think we have recruited well and have some good options for full back, plus some better strike players so not all lost.

Re: New Signings : Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:26 pm  

So a small town team now are outspending us lol, I do hope Leigh down pip them at the post next year for super league

Re: New Signings : Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:21 pm  

Kear is deffo NOT a full back
Hall wasnt even the best full back at Batley.
I really hope our players player of the year hasnt been replace by a lad that cant get in Batleys starting 13.

Id be amazed and severly underwhelmed if we dont sign an out and out 1 to be first choice.

Adam Quinlan and Alex Walker are still available and it seems our neigbours have settled with Myler at 1 so one of Jack Broadbent or Jack Walker (once fit again) maybe available for a loan.

Re: New Signings : Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:24 pm  

RagingBull wrote:

Kear is deffo NOT a full back
Hall wasnt even the best full back at Batley.
I really hope our players player of the year hasnt been replace by a lad that cant get in Batleys starting 13.

Id be amazed and severly underwhelmed if we dont sign an out and out 1 to be first choice.

Adam Quinlan and Alex Walker are still available and it seems our neigbours have settled with Myler at 1 so one of Jack Broadbent or Jack Walker (once fit again) maybe available for a loan.

You say that like we are better than Batley…

Re: New Signings : Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:02 am  

Good luck to the lad but it's no loss and the club should have been looking to replace anyway.

[Bullseye]

Re: New Signings : Tue Oct 19, 2021 8:00 am  

Pickersgill was our most impressive back last season – attacking wise anyway. He’s got pace and had started to run a lot straighter rather than running his outside men out of space as he’d done in previous years. When he was out injured we really missed his link play. Fullback is a very important position nowadays from an attacking point of view so I hope we recruit someone decent as replacement - is Hall that player?. Let’s face it we’re not exactly overflowing with attacking options.

Defensively it’s a different matter. He was decent under the kick but as a last line of defence he was pretty clueless.

We’ve had 4 or 5 good years out of him and he’ll improve I reckon. Not sure he’ll ever be SL quality but he’s decent for our level.

Re: New Signings : Tue Oct 19, 2021 8:35 am  

Matty Dawson-Jones has penned a new one-year deal.

Not sure how I feel about that. It certainly isn't the bounce that is needed after announcing that our No.1 has gone to a rival/bigger team.

Re: New Signings : Tue Oct 19, 2021 8:59 am  

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RagingBull wrote:

Kear is deffo NOT a full back
Hall wasnt even the best full back at Batley.
I really hope our players player of the year hasnt been replace by a lad that cant get in Batleys starting 13.

Id be amazed and severly underwhelmed if we dont sign an out and out 1 to be first choice.

Adam Quinlan and Alex Walker are still available and it seems our neigbours have settled with Myler at 1 so one of Jack Broadbent or Jack Walker (once fit again) maybe available for a loan.

Let us hope that Elliott Hall is playing on Sunday at Halifax, and in the play offs.

He makes such a massive "Difference", and that is what we have needed recently. Look at our results without him in the team... He can score a try from nothing - a "Predator", Who was the last player we had at the Bulldogs who could do that?

In my opinion Elliott needs to be accommodated somewhere in the team next season, and has been a tremendous asset for us this season, as his try scoring record shows.

As they say ..You do not know what you had...until its gone

This is a Batley fans write up on Elliott Hall.
He was also joint top scorer at Batley.
To say he ain't good enough without giving him a chance is pretty poor.

Re: New Signings : Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:04 am  

I'm happy with Dawson-Jones. We would have all rated him as out best back 12 months ago. He was just very unlucky with injury this year. Can't imagine he cost the earth either.

Re: New Signings : Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:26 am  

Dawson Jones, Good resigning, I like what I saw of him just hope he can steer clear of injuries