Re: New Players : Sat Nov 23, 2024 4:56 pm  

Sounds a bit desperate- maybe there’s another Bassett to be found at Wests?

Re: New Players : Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:54 pm  

RfE wrote:

Sounds a bit desperate- maybe there’s another Bassett to be found at Wests?

We could certainly do with finding the likes of Martin Herdman, Colin Fenn & Steve Guyett, all of which came from nowhere. Maybe not another Gary Mason, although watching him score was amusing, carrying half the opposition team with him.

Keiren Murphy & Sumo Rees probably better known. Can't believe there aren't a few Union backs that might fancy it apart perhaps from earning more from Union. Let's hope we at least find a goal kicker. We also don't seem very good at recruiting some of the powerful black athletes out there.

Re: New Players : Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:40 pm  

Deadcowboys1 wrote:

We could certainly do with finding the likes of Martin Herdman, Colin Fenn & Steve Guyett, all of which came from nowhere. Maybe not another Gary Mason, although watching him score was amusing, carrying half the opposition team with him.

Keiren Murphy & Sumo Rees probably better known. Can't believe there aren't a few Union backs that might fancy it apart perhaps from earning more from Union. Let's hope we at least find a goal kicker. We also don't seem very good at recruiting some of the powerful black athletes out there.

That’s depressed the life out of me. I’d forgotten about goal kick8ng. We’ve been useless since Hankinson left. My guess Walker who if I recall took kick offs until he put it over the dead ball line once too often. On the plus side I think we can look forward to a season without that woeful short drop out that cost us so many points.

Re: New Players : Sun Nov 24, 2024 6:17 am  

BigTime wrote:

That’s depressed the life out of me. I’d forgotten about goal kick8ng. We’ve been useless since Hankinson left. My guess Walker who if I recall took kick offs until he put it over the dead ball line once too often. On the plus side I think we can look forward to a season without that woeful short drop out that cost us so many points.

I suppose we could overcome our goal kicking frailties by trying to score less tries! Might not win many games though, but we might not anyway.

Re: New Players : Wed Dec 04, 2024 11:53 am  

Interview with Worthington on YouTube. He seems a nice fella not that matters much. Taking of new people being brought in vaguely.

Re: New Players : Wed Dec 04, 2024 1:28 pm  

the-bearded-lefty wrote:

Interview with Worthington on YouTube. He seems a nice fella not that matters much. Taking of new people being brought in vaguely.

Interesting how he said he’d expected to play 30 minutes a game as prop for Whitehaven, but as they often only had 13 or 14 players available for some games, he ended up regularly playing 70 odd minutes.
Could be useful experience for us, seeing as we are looking likely to be in a similar situation- unless of course we find a wave of new players via the open trials….

Re: New Players : Wed Dec 04, 2024 2:08 pm  

RfE wrote:

Interesting how he said he’d expected to play 30 minutes a game as prop for Whitehaven, but as they often only had 13 or 14 players available for some games, he ended up regularly playing 70 odd minutes.
Could be useful experience for us, seeing as we are looking likely to be in a similar situation- unless of course we find a wave of new players via the open trials….

he seems up for a challenge doesn't he

Re: New Players : Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:19 pm  

the-bearded-lefty wrote:

he seems up for a challenge doesn't he

He does- be good if we can add a few more like him.

Re: New Players : Wed Dec 04, 2024 5:12 pm  

I'm guessing/hoping that there will be new signings announced ahead of the open day.

Re: New Players : Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:15 pm  

Moe Lester wrote:

I'm guessing/hoping that there will be new signings announced ahead of the open day.

My aspirations are a little lower. I just home we announce some new signings before the opening fixture.