2024 squad : Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:34 pm  

I think this is right for the first 20 or so, but I need some help with the young players who will fill the squad. Please add or amend (I'm bound to have forgotten someone). I've gone with what I suspect will be the first 17, not necessarily my choice...

1. Dufty
2. Thewlis
3. Tai
4. King
5. Ashton
6. Williams
7. Drinkwater
8. Musgrove
9. Walker
10. Vaughan
11. Fitzgibbon
12. Currie
13. Nicholson

14. Dwyer
15. Philbin
16. Kasiano
17. Harrison

18. Wrench
19. Ratchford
20. Crowther
21. Hayes
22. Russell
23. Dudson
24. Bullock
25. Thomas
26. Dean
27. Bruines
28. Green (thanks Smiffy)

Re: 2024 squad : Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:56 pm  

Good to see it all put together. Lucas Green might be included. I'd like to see a bit more of Rodrick Tai before I'd hand him a shirt with 3 on it. Just being cautious after what little I have seen.

Re: 2024 squad : Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:18 pm  

He's scored 14 tries in 34 games in the Queensland Cup. That'll do me.

Re: 2024 squad : Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:58 pm  

Let's hope he's fine and he obviously has some pace. Just watched him once, really closely, playing for PNG & he was very very quiet. If he plays like that every game he's not the boy. By the way ... I hope he's a cracking player & just needs a rocket up his backside.

Re: 2024 squad : Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:05 pm  

Someone as posted on Facebook that Tai as picked up a knee injury, nothing about how serious it is.

Re: 2024 squad : Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:08 pm  

Douglas Black wrote:

I think this is right for the first 20 or so, but I need some help with the young players who will fill the squad. Please add or amend (I'm bound to have forgotten someone). I've gone with what I suspect will be the first 17, not necessarily my choice...

1. Dufty
2. Thewlis
3. Tai
4. King
5. Ashton
6. Williams
7. Drinkwater
8. Musgrove
9. Walker
10. Vaughan
11. Fitzgibbon
12. Currie
13. Nicholson

14. Dwyer
15. Philbin
16. Kasiano
17. Harrison

18. Wrench
19. Ratchford
20. Crowther
21. Hayes
22. Russell
23. Dudson
24. Bullock
25. Thomas
26. Dean
27. Bruines
28. Green (thanks Smiffy)

On the numbering I’d swap Kasiano with Bullock, and only because I’m not overly happy about todays news I’d give Ratchford the 14 shirt and put Dwyer as a squad number

Re: 2024 squad : Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:52 pm  

Wrench should have shirt 3 or 4. I'm not particularly bothered which of the two you've named misses out.

Re: 2024 squad : Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:55 am  

We should get a big year (start of season anyway) out of Philbin as his contract is up end of 2024.

Re: 2024 squad : Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:59 am  

Makes me wonder whether Adam Holroyd, Jack Derbyshire, Josh Lynch, Tom Whitehead, Jake Thewlis, Bobby Shingler, Jamie Reddecliff and Aiden Doolan fit in with future plans.

Re: 2024 squad : Wed Oct 25, 2023 8:09 am  

MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:

Makes me wonder whether Adam Holroyd, Jack Derbyshire, Josh Lynch, Tom Whitehead, Jake Thewlis, Bobby Shingler, Jamie Reddecliff and Aiden Doolan fit in with future plans.

Doolan and Derbyshire have left the club.