: Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:10 am  

Wire On The Telly wrote:

Maurie Fa'asavalu?

That's a big name.

Louie McCarthy Scarsbrook, now thats a massive name

: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:30 am  

Joe Mbu

32 Year Old Aussie Stand Off : Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:04 pm  

Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?

Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?

: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:08 pm  

Its a tough one. If its deemed that we don't have any youngsters in this position ready to make the step up, or are indeed not good enough to make the step up yet. Then I would say yes, bring him in for a year or two.

Re: 32 Year Old Aussie Stand Off : Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:10 pm  

Wirral Wire wrote: Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go? No. next..

Wirral Wire wrote: Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go? No. next..

: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:54 pm  

Mighty Wires wrote:

Wouldn't mind Wild or Purdham.

Although we would need a bring in a quality centre to replace Gleeson, as you don't get many centres as good as Gleeson in SL. We'd miss him.

And Although Lockyer would be great signing, he won't be here in SL for 3 or 4 years, he'd be more of a stop gap rather than replacing Briers. I'd like to us aim for a younger/promising player to enable him to blend into the squad, (as we did with Briers) i think thats what you need in such as pivotal position. You can't to sign a player these days and expect him to settle in straight away.

The thing that worries me about our right hand side is that within 2 years we could lose Gleeson, Briers and probably Hicks.

Gleeson will be a big loss, but if we have Briers then it isn;t as big a loss, as Briers deserves a lot of credit for putting players into space out wide with his crisp passing. We were always strong with Grose and Smyth on the right, and I believe much of it was down to Briers.

Shenton was the last right sided centre which genuinely impressed me in this country. He ripped King to pieces last year at our place. I haven't seen that much of him tbh so I don't know if that's his regular standard, but he certainly has potential.

I like some of the other names mentioned here too for other British players:
LMS, Wild, Purdham, Westerman, it may also be worth keeping an eye on Myler at Salford.

Re: 32 Year Old Aussie Stand Off : Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:19 pm  

Wirral Wire wrote: Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go? No I don't think we should. He's only whoring himself around super league for a end of career pay boost.

Wirral Wire wrote: Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go? No I don't think we should. He's only whoring himself around super league for a end of career pay boost.

: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:39 pm  

If someone says they want to play in Britain for a year or 2, steer clear.

: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:42 pm  

i wouldnt touch him with a barge pole...

: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:10 pm  

I'd take him for sure, I'd try to get a British halfback first, a young one, like Myler, but if they weren't available I'd happily take Lockyer, providing it wasn't prohibative salary cap wise to chasing other targets. If you were just say, replacing Gleesons salary for instance, then I think it'd be a great move for us.

He'd be the best halfback in the league, he's a leader, he'd command respect from everyone, he's a winner and he's unbelievably talented. We signed Langer in the latter end of his career, he was fantastic. We would have had Johns, so I see no reason why age should put us off, he's 32 sure, but I think sometimes we get caught up in this age thing as though 'once you hit 30 your done', lots of overseas players have come over here 30+ done really well, Renouf, Langer, Lam, Rauhihi, Darren Smith, Brad Drew, Glenn Morrison off the top of my head.

For me, the question is, Do I think Darren Lockyer would improve us ? Yep. We all talk about mentality, having winners, cultures in the club etc, I think this bloke would be a great leader.