Re: Signing a halfback : Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:47 pm  

Daly Cherry-Evans is 25.
Shaun Johnson is 23
Adam Reynolds is 24
Gareth Widdop is 25
Mitchell Pearce is 25
Chris Sandow is 25
Anthony Milford is 20

All 1st choice established half backs.... GOB is 23, it's time to show up

Re: Signing a halfback : Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:05 pm  

GOB just isn't good enough. I don't buy the age thing, you can see early doors when someone has IT...he doesn't. Bradford sounds about right

Re: Signing a halfback : Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:29 pm  

The Railwayman wrote:

Lefty ...
"My wish for 2015 is that as soon as the last ball of 2014 has been kicked, TS is sitting down to solve the half-back equation permanently."

You won't find anybody disagreeing on that one. Let's hope, as stated previously, that plans are already in place and couldn't be brought forward when Briers retired leaving us to make the best of it this season before the Messiah arrives for 2015

Funnily enough, I've been saying this since the end of 2012.

As far as I'm concerned, a new half back should have been bought, the day after we got beat by Leeds in the 2012 GF.
As a humble speccy, I could see that Briers was effectively finished(yes, he did play some games like the legend he was in 13, but they were few and far between), and we should have acted then. We are 2 years down the line now, and the problem has STILL not been rectified.

C'mon, Broomhead, Moran et al, time to get your fingers out

Re: Signing a halfback : Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:00 pm  

Wire Yed wrote:

Daly Cherry-Evans is 25.
Shaun Johnson is 23
Adam Reynolds is 24
Gareth Widdop is 25
Mitchell Pearce is 25
Chris Sandow is 25
Anthony Milford is 20

All 1st choice established half backs.... GOB is 23, it's time to show up

Now name some in SL.

Re: Signing a halfback : Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:55 pm  

Next year, if Simms lives up to billing, we will have a very formidable pack :

Hill, Higham/Clark, Simms, Evans, Laithwaite, Westwood, Currie, Grix, England, Harrison etc.

That pack should lay the platform for the backs against any team. The concern for me, and the acid test for the team, will be how well the half-backs we deploy utilise what should be, acres of space and time.

For me, even when afforded the kind of dominance those forwards should deliver, I'm not convinced our current halves will make best use of it.

Re: Signing a halfback : Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:48 pm  

morrisseyisawire wrote:

Next year, if Simms lives up to billing, we will have a very formidable pack :

Hill, Higham/Clark, Simms, Evans, Laithwaite, Westwood, Currie, Grix, England, Harrison etc.

That pack should lay the platform for the backs against any team. The concern for me, and the acid test for the team, will be how well the half-backs we deploy utilise what should be, acres of space and time.

For me, even when afforded the kind of dominance those forwards should deliver, I'm not convinced our current halves will make best use of it.

You forgot Roy.

Re: Signing a halfback : Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:32 am  

The biggest issue is how we find an effective half back partner for Myler.

Re: Signing a halfback : Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:41 am  

Find a top class player like we had in briers and Myler can play off him, but I think his time at Warrington May very well be limited

Re: Signing a halfback : Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:32 am  

Kevin Turvey wrote:

The biggest issue is how we find an effective half back partner for Myler.

Or perhaps instead of.

Re: Signing a halfback : Mon Aug 25, 2014 2:32 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

Funnily enough, I've been saying this since the end of 2012.

As far as I'm concerned, a new half back should have been bought, the day after we got beat by Leeds in the 2012 GF.
As a humble speccy, I could see that Briers was effectively finished(yes, he did play some games like the legend he was in 13, but they were few and far between), and we should have acted then. We are 2 years down the line now, and the problem has STILL not been rectified.

C'mon, Broomhead, Moran et al, time to get your fingers out

Who did you think we should have signed then and how would you have got them under the salary cap with Briers, Morley, Carvell and Hodgson all on it.