Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:17 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

We're still in an era were we can afford to give young lads a shot due to the overall quality of superleague being at a low point. By teams doing that hopefully the quality of the league (and the national side) will go up given time but at the minute these young lads can cope.

10-15 years back I'd have been very nervous throwing kids in to try and take on guys like Long, Martyn, Briers, Harris, Paul, Lam and so on but that quality isn't there at the moment. Saints have Walsh who is top class and Catalans have Carney but besides those two there isn't a single halfback in the league that really puts me on edge that these guys couldn't take them on. There's some good ones like Brough, Burns and Smith also but these lads are talented and will play behind a top pack including Sean O'Loughlin who helps take the pressure off.

Thats a great post.

Fully endorse what you are saying

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:45 am  

If the report in this mornings Express that Fuifui Moimoi is to sign for Leigh later this week proves to be true, it will make the Leigh v Wigan warm up match in January a lot more interesting. Well done Leigh for trying to raise the profile of the Club.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:05 pm  

stillinthepast wrote:

If the report in this mornings Express that Fuifui Moimoi is to sign for Leigh later this week proves to be true, it will make the Leigh v Wigan warm up match in January a lot more interesting. Well done Leigh for trying to raise the profile of the Club.

I thought Wire were after him?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:15 pm  

CyberPieMan wrote:

I thought Wire were after him?

they have paid a fee to secure his signature for the 2019 season

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:51 pm  

[Gareth] wrote:

they have paid a fee to secure his signature for the 2019 season

I assume thou jesteth, kind sir. He'll be pushing 40 - he's not Stanley Gene (unless there's something in the water in Tonga)

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Nov 27, 2014 4:14 pm  

CyberPieMan wrote:

I assume thou jesteth, kind sir. He'll be pushing 40 - he's not Stanley Gene (unless there's something in the water in Tonga)

[DaveO]

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:07 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

We're still in an era were we can afford to give young lads a shot due to the overall quality of superleague being at a low point.

Wane doesn't think so. He has already said expect to see less young players given games next season due to it being important go well in the regular rounds with P&R back in the picture.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:43 pm  

DaveO wrote:

Wane doesn't think so. He has already said expect to see less young players given games next season due to it being important go well in the regular rounds with P&R back in the picture.

Did he say less young players or less debutants? I seem to recall the latter, which doesn't really apply to Powell (39 apps) or Williams (26 apps)

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:50 pm  

DaveO wrote:

Wane doesn't think so. He has already said expect to see less young players given games next season due to it being important go well in the regular rounds with P&R back in the picture.

Didn't he say he'd give less debuts not that he'd play less youngsters? Guys like Hampshire, Williams, Burgess, Manfredi, Sutton etc will still get plenty of games. Due to Thornleys injury I'd expect Gildart to debut pretty early next year but granted not many others may be given their bow due to the new structure. I wouldn't say that's the only reason though, another is the fact that the ones that are ready or nearly ready have already debuted and the next batch of kids like Shorrocks, Waterworth, Gregson etc are all a couple of years off being ready.

We'll still have a very young squad and team next year, possibly the youngest.

[DaveO]

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:46 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

Didn't he say he'd give less debuts not that he'd play less youngsters? Guys like Hampshire, Williams, Burgess, Manfredi, Sutton etc will still get plenty of games. Due to Thornleys injury I'd expect Gildart to debut pretty early next year but granted not many others may be given their bow due to the new structure. I wouldn't say that's the only reason though, another is the fact that the ones that are ready or nearly ready have already debuted and the next batch of kids like Shorrocks, Waterworth, Gregson etc are all a couple of years off being ready.

We'll still have a very young squad and team next year, possibly the youngest.

While young I think some of our young players have quite a few games under their belt such as Burgess and Williams (who has been given the 6 jersey anyway) and are established first team members already. I assumed Wane and you were referring to players with far less experience than that.

I will be interesting to see if say Bowen is injured whether he puts an established player like Sarginson at 1 with Joel moving to centre rather than play a much less experienced player like Tierney.