Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu May 05, 2016 7:23 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

Eamon is that you?

Haha. I've been told well in advance of it going public about every signing we've made in last few years mate plus more besides so I'm sacking my source if this one turns out to be true!

Unless something changes in the coming months in terms of our targets then we won't be getting Smith.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri May 06, 2016 6:33 am  

How about Manu Vatuvei? Rather have him than Justin Carney!

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat May 07, 2016 7:13 pm  

Big Steve wrote:

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I do think that whoever is in charge of recruitment does need a shake up though.

We identified 3 years ago we needed more size up front and have done absolutely nothing to fix that.

We're also going too far down the route of local boys and project players forgetting that the odd star player is also needed - not least to put bums on seats and create talk in the pubs.

Great post and something I've been saying for some time.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun May 08, 2016 7:37 am  

Darwen Warrior wrote:

Great post and something I've been saying for some time.

I agree and would go one step further in saying the whole club needs a shake up. We seem to have slipped back into the "jobs for the boys" mentality where anyone who has been associated with the club in the past is employable.

We have fallen into this mentality before and it wasn't until new blood came in and changed things that performances and the club developed.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun May 08, 2016 8:40 am  

I think a lot of us are saying the same things in different ways. My points never seem to come across right, but I read someone who phrases it different and people agree. We all want to be entertained at the end of the day, there's loyalty to your team of course, but we pay money and want to be entertained watching our team. Phil Clarke said the other day, coaches these days are more like choreographers, the coach sets the moves and expects people to show up in the right place, it's a numbers game, more attackers than defenders. Are players being stifled because coaches want structure and possession? Is the game played more like American football where attacking play is all developed in training rather players being lower to show ingenuity on the field? That's how SL appears to me on the whole.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun May 08, 2016 5:06 pm  

That Scott Taylor lad looks a decent Prop, wouldn't mind him at Wigan.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon May 09, 2016 6:33 am  

jonh wrote:

That Scott Taylor lad looks a decent Prop, wouldn't mind him at Wigan.

Gets homesick apparently...

Denny Solomona : Thu May 12, 2016 7:35 pm  

Replacement for Charnley?

Re: Denny Solomona : Thu May 12, 2016 8:50 pm  

Looking good tonight!

Re: Denny Solomona : Thu May 12, 2016 9:24 pm  

Would be made up but Lenagan isn't going to throw a couple of hundred grand at Cas for signing an overseas winger.