Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:05 pm  

MrPhilb wrote: Hudds have signed O'Donnell on a reported 250K a year 4 year deal http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield- ... -26886378/ http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield- ... -26901567/ He's 30 in october as well, he must have a great agent to pull that off And the most suspended player in NRL history according to the BBC! Not sure how happy I'd be with this signing if I was a Hudds fan.

MrPhilb wrote: Hudds have signed O'Donnell on a reported 250K a year 4 year deal http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield- ... -26886378/ http://www.examiner.co.uk/huddersfield- ... -26901567/ He's 30 in october as well, he must have a great agent to pull that off And the most suspended player in NRL history according to the BBC! Not sure how happy I'd be with this signing if I was a Hudds fan.

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:21 pm  

Only recently he served a 3 week suspension for a dangerous tackle and tupped Dave Taylor in the Stae of Origin brawl.

[Durham Giant]

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:40 pm  

peter parker wrote:

And the most suspended player in NRL history according to the BBC! Not sure how happy I'd be with this signing if I was a Hudds fan.

he has missed 29 games in 10 years through suspension.

An average of 2.9 games a season.

I could live with him missing 2.9 games a season.

We have a world cup winner in david fa'alogo who will have missed at least 18 games this season with his rubber hamstrings now that was a waste this year.

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:25 pm  

V For Vendetta wrote:

David Vaealiki - Worth the 3 years of pain for 2 incidents: Rounding Doorstop Wellens with ease and taking Barrett's spectacular miss pass to make the break from which we got our first try in the famous playoff comeback at Bradford.

Nothing was worth the 3 years of pain. The first name on the sheet for my worst ever Wigan XIII

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:46 pm  

done.
L Donnell 2 huddersfield.

on other hand who is going out of huddersfield giants. that is a big wage.

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:58 pm  

TonyM19 wrote:

Nothing was worth the 3 years of pain. The first name on the sheet for my worst ever Wigan XIII

Just really bad judgement from Wigan when we realised that Gasnier wasnt coming.

I spoke to the clubs physio at the time before DV arrived and he basically told me that Vaialiki couldnt run distances due to the injury he picked up at Paramatta.

Big gamble that didnt pay off.

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:44 pm  

TonyM19 wrote:

Nothing was worth the 3 years of pain. The first name on the sheet for my worst ever Wigan XIII

Obviously you've forgotten Doc Murray.

I dont think Vaealiki was actually all that bad, he just wasn't worth what we ended up paying him. Why couldn't we have let Saints beat us to him?

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:32 pm  

TonyM19 wrote:

Nothing was worth the 3 years of pain. The first name on the sheet for my worst ever Wigan XIII

Shem Tatupu?

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:03 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Good to see Wigan working hard to keep their youngsters in Super League. No really

Why sign wasters like Riddell, Carmont, Feka, Bailey, Finch and Lima when you've got a goldmine just beneath the surface? Put some faith in them FFS.

Thornley, Marsh, Davies and Charnley should all be in the 17 for Wigan next season. How many will be? 0?

We tried that with Brown, Robinson, Goulding, Hodgson, Wild, Prescott, Hargreaves etc etc and got whacked week in week out.

Maybe you should drop Gidley, Flannery, Soliola (when fit of course), Puletua, and Meli so that lads in your academy can get a game?

We'll have around 7/8 ENGLISH lads in our starting 13 next season imo and probably 3 on the bench. 4/5 of those in the starting side were trained in OUR academy and 5/6 of them are from Wigan. Of the 3 on the bench then i'd say at least 2 will have been trained in our academy. Compare that to the rest of SL and then tell me we spoil the game.

[Durham Giant]

Re: 2011 SL Transfers : Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:31 am  

madtigerman wrote:

done.
L Donnell 2 huddersfield.

on other hand who is going out of huddersfield giants. that is a big wage.

We are Losing Brett Hodgson, Stephen Wild, Brad Drew, Paul Whatuira and probably a few others.

The quotes on his salary are way off the mark and have come from Australia to appease fans over there.