Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:05 pm  

I’d have him back in a heartbeat.

There isn’t a player better equipped to be on the bench than Harvey.

Can play every position very well, and can kick a ball as good as anyone.
A Swiss Army knife.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:33 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I’d have him back in a heartbeat.

There isn’t a player better equipped to be on the bench than Harvey.

Can play every position very well, and can kick a ball as good as anyone.
A Swiss Army knife.

You sure you should be drinking

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:41 pm  

karetaker wrote:

You sure you should be drinking

Agree 100% strange one that

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:47 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I’d have him back in a heartbeat.

There isn’t a player better equipped to be on the bench than Harvey.

Can play every position very well, and can kick a ball as good as anyone.
A Swiss Army knife.

A very rusty one that does all the jobs poorly

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:00 am  

Winslade's Offload wrote:

I would hope Luke Thomas will step up. John Kear said " he doesn't have a handbrake", and from what I have seen he has the controlled aggression and determination to succeed. Hopefully the coaches will be adding the black art of the prop to his skill set and we will see him making the bench in the coming year.

Yeah he looked so good in pre-season, a very visible step up from what i'd seen previously. Accelerated in to each defender and hit hard, i was looking forward to seeing him in the first team, so hopefully will get some game time with Okoro
And on the Harvey Livett stance..... absolutely not.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:04 am  

Harvey Livett isn’t a bad player, he is a good squad option. But for me his signing would be similar to the signing of Minikin, it would highlight a gap in our youth system that I hope we have solved. I wouldn’t want to sign Livett just because it could take away game time from the likes of Holroyd, Whitehead & Tupea.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:11 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

I’d have him back in a heartbeat.

There isn’t a player better equipped to be on the bench than Harvey.

Can play every position very well, and can kick a ball as good as anyone.
A Swiss Army knife.

I'm not quite sure where this perception of Livett's versatility comes from. He's a second row or centre (and a rank average one at that) who could maybe fill in at half-back in an emergency - nothing more. Would you want him at full-back, wing, or prop? Even a half-back emergency would be better filled by Ratchford, Powell or Currie. It's a definite 'no' for me.

[Winslade's Offload]

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:18 am  

Alffi_7 wrote:

Harvey Livett isn’t a bad player, he is a good squad option. But for me his signing would be similar to the signing of Minikin, it would highlight a gap in our youth system that I hope we have solved. I wouldn’t want to sign Livett just because it could take away game time from the likes of Holroyd, Whitehead & Tupea.

Yes, good summary I think. Im wondering if perhaps we might have brought him back on a low wage as a useful back up ? this assumes that the rumour is true in the first place of course.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:17 pm  

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/hu ... interested

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/hu ... interested

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:18 pm  

So reading that he is likely leaving the Giants because he will be down the pecking order. So why would he be any further up the order here. Would rather spend the money on finishing painting the stadium.