Alffi_7 wrote:
Ideally I’m hoping for a pack of:
Hill
Clark
Cooper
Currie
Holmes (playing on the right? Think he has predominantly been left sided previously)
Hughes
Bench of:
Walker
Philbin
Mulhern
Davis / Harrison / Bullock / Butler / ANO depending on opposition / form.
Whole front row should be on alert. Hill & Coops won’t be here in 2 years, spots will be up for grabs. But we should be looking to add a high quality prop to the group from 2023, with the rest coming from that above group.
For me, Jason Clark moves on, with a thanks for your efforts. If Hill leaves, potentially we retain him for a bit of leadership if we can’t replace Hill, but if that happens, we look small for 2022.
So going back to my previous post when do you start to consider Doro, Longstaff and Robson. When their 30. You’ve got to give them a chance to see how they perform, otherwise it’s pointless having an academy. I presume everyone on here would take Oldeski of Leeds tomorrow. Had we heard of him 18 months ago. No . Leeds took a punt from their academy and now they’ve got an England
prop. Are we going to keep giving them 1 year deals and then sending them out on loan. We gave Luis Johnson only a few run outs before deciding he wasn’t for us. To be fair we’ve got the better end of the deal with Mulhern signing.
Going back to Harrison, (who has been signed on the recommendation of our new coach) along with Holmes will be for me considered a first teamer otherwise what was the point of the signing. We’ve got enough possible first teamer’s. I’ll stick my neck out and predict that the coaching staff will hope he will have the same impact as Hill when he first signed and Walmsley of St Helen’s.
I’d love Chris Hill to stay but if other teams are offering longer contracts on more money then there is only going to be one outcome.
We need to win Super League to get the monkey off our backs. That is why Steve Price relies on experienced players. The board though for me have waited long enough and if it doesn’t happen this season they are going to want Powell to start fresh and introduce a new younger team and possibly wait another season for it to gel.