[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 9:56 am  

Or thane wrote:

Why? Dwyers a good impact Hooker that will take some strain off Walker. He's not a world beater but he does a decent job. And Walkers clearly our starting 9 and can do big minutes, could be worse having Dwyer as back up
And i got stick for saying Russell would be great for us, and people have changed their tune about his signing

Decent job is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

The russell thing is a bit of a straw argument, he wasn't very well liked when he was here the first time, and he's not very well liked here now, his game hasn't changed, he's still 50/50 on dropping the ball when returning kicks, its the same as when ratch used to carry the ball in one hand.

Sky love hyping up dwyer and these mad runs he does, but he's a half back/coaches worst nightmare, i'd be wagering he was a hodgson signing, and tony smith has no interest in keeping him on.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 11:07 am  

Moe syslak wrote:

I'm hearing its the return of Peta Hiku.

Well if you look back a bit on here someone from HKR was asking about him as he as been linked to them on possible marquee money.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 12:39 pm  

Moe syslak wrote:

I'm hearing its the return of Peta Hiku.

You hear correctly. He's the centre that I said was offered a contract at Xmas. Nothing signed yet.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 12:46 pm  

Abe Froman wrote:

You hear correctly. He's the centre that I said was offered a contract at Xmas. Nothing signed yet.

Interesting, HKR after him also.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 12:48 pm  

karetaker wrote:

Interesting, HKR after him also.

Hence why he hasn't signed yet. Hull KR could make him a Marquee player. I doubt we will.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 1:43 pm  

Abe Froman wrote:

Hence why he hasn't signed yet. Hull KR could make him a Marquee player. I doubt we will.

Rovers fan few pages back said that, my reply was I would not be given a guy who will be 32 marquee money and the fact he went home early is also a worry.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 3:22 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

Decent job is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

The russell thing is a bit of a straw argument, he wasn't very well liked when he was here the first time, and he's not very well liked here now, his game hasn't changed, he's still 50/50 on dropping the ball when returning kicks, its the same as when ratch used to carry the ball in one hand.

Sky love hyping up dwyer and these mad runs he does, but he's a half back/coaches worst nightmare, i'd be wagering he was a hodgson signing, and tony smith has no interest in keeping him on.

Yeah fair enough, but i've no problems with him as a back up hooker to be honest. He does have some really good aspects to his game, he's just inconsistant. If Powell can iron that out of him and up his consistancy he could be a very handy player for us. I doubt he'll get loads of game time but he'll definately do for me to help stop Walker burning out with too much workload

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 3:54 pm  

I reckon Dwyer is as good a No2 hooker as there is. He is not Daryl Clark but so be it.
I remember Dwyer & Leeming tearing Wire apart. True he is very excitable but he is also a plus player who wears his heart on his sleeve & makes as many breaks as any hooker.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 4:09 pm  

I could have torn us apart last year. I wouldn’t be too pleased with Dwyer but would prefer him to Leeming, was hoping Saints would make the mistake of signing him.

Re: Recruitment and Retention. : Thu May 11, 2023 4:25 pm  

Players like Hiku or most from the south seas are going to require near or marquee money regardless of their age because the whole family has to be cared for.
Get the best of British I say.