Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:35 am  

Brick with eyes wrote:

If he’s far better than Dodd at this age , then I expect him to skip Wigan and sign for Penrith Panthers very soon. Dodd was absolute quality in his Halton Hornets days , and was courted by several NRL clubs

I wouldn't be surprised to see Dodd go to Aus in the near future.

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:56 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised to see Dodd go to Aus in the near future.

We did well to keep him 2 years ago. Melbourne were sniffing and have been for some time. This was before he was even playing first team regularly. He has been on good money at Saints from the off due to interest from Australia.

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:01 am  

It’s such a shame that all the clubs with good academies look to be getting targeted for raids from down under now. Losing the new breed of stars, like KPP, Pryce, Dodd etc would be tough to take. These are the guys who should be driving this league forward.

The only upside of it is that the international side should see the benefit and we need to ride that for all it’s worth. It’s tough to do that though when the country who is picking these lads off has little interest in competing.

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:24 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

It’s such a shame that all the clubs with good academies look to be getting targeted for raids from down under now. Losing the new breed of stars, like KPP, Pryce, Dodd etc would be tough to take. These are the guys who should be driving this league forward.

The only upside of it is that the international side should see the benefit and we need to ride that for all it’s worth. It’s tough to do that though when the country who is picking these lads off has little interest in competing.

The Aussies have been after KPP and Havard for a while. Harry Rushton is doing well down there. Dodd knows his "value" and won't be afraid to ask for top $. Whether Saints will or can afford to match it only time will tell. It's a shame that we have to lose top talent but I never blame players for taking the opportunity, they're only a couple of injuries from seeing their potential earnings nosedive.

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:45 am  

Dodd is a very talented and confident lad - he''ll back his ability in Oz soon enough I expect.

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:35 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

I didn't, in fact I presented some of those awards . I said the awards are by age and division, hence you could both be right about thinking a certain player had won 'player of the year', because there is no single overall player of the year.

how can they both be nwc player of the year when they played at the same age and division?

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:49 am  

Pieman wrote:

how can they both be nwc player of the year when they played at the same age and division?

They can't, I didn't know what age and division the other lad played in. Not every scholarship player comes from the top division.

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:31 am  

Grimmy wrote:

They can't, I didn't know what age and division the other lad played in. Not every scholarship player comes from the top division.

no but he said the team and they are from the top division, thought you'd know that as both team won awards that night and you were there presenting

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Wed May 04, 2022 4:03 pm  

U16's play Huddersfield tonight at Ince Rose Bridge, I'll go down and have a look. Some outstanding talent in that that Wigan team. Kick off is 7 p.m.

Re: Wigan v Saints U16s : Wed May 04, 2022 4:26 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

U16's play Huddersfield tonight at Ince Rose Bridge, I'll go down and have a look. Some outstanding talent in that that Wigan team. Kick off is 7 p.m.

Let us know how Noah Hodkinson plays.

Top prospect for wigan