Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 10:40 am  

truewiganer wrote:

but next season we dont.
finch is no good,
and wont be here next year,
deacs wont be here next year,
leaving just tommy, who we play as a sub hooker to,
im sure we have more wingers and full backs that are good enough to play in the first team than get an un-tested, or another aussie who really inst worth what we are paying him to come and play in the middle of the park because you lot want to keep our best attacking player out of the way at full back getting him smashed everytime a kick comes through.

These are two very spurious points to hang an argument on.

IL said that Finch will see out his contract. And the conventional wisdom from down under is that Finch is a pretty good player (i.e. Origin standard).

I'll agree that he's had a slow start over here, but adaptating to a new club and systems etc can take time, as has been proved by some of the best - Pat Richards, Mark Riddell, Craig Smith and Gene Miles to name four off the top of my head.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 10:51 am  

Really makes me laugh how some can make a final opinion on a guy after just 7-8 games.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:16 am  

wigan_knight wrote:

Really makes me laugh how some can make a final opinion on a guy after just 7-8 games after spending the best part of a year out with a potential career ending injury .

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:17 am  

keep saying it, if he was as good as hes ment to be he wouldnt need to bed in,
trent didnt, kenny didnt, lam didnt,

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:21 am  

truewiganer wrote:

keep saying it, if he was as good as hes ment to be he wouldnt need to bed in,
trent didnt, kenny didnt, lam didnt,

Again, how many of those were injured for the best part of a year and had major surgery just before signing?

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:28 am  

inside_man wrote:

Again, how many of those were injured for the best part of a year and had major surgery just before signing?

And not even half a pre season

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:31 am  

truewiganer wrote:

keep saying it, if he was as good as hes ment to be he wouldnt need to bed in,
trent didnt, kenny didnt, lam didnt,

Idiot

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:34 am  

truewiganer wrote:

keep saying it, if he was as good as hes ment to be he wouldnt need to bed in,
trent didnt, kenny didnt, lam didnt,

Lam wasn't massively impressive straight away. Kenny was 'Untouchables' standard walking into a UK league where some, if not most, of the teams were still operating a Stone Age rugby league philosophy.

The only one who made a remarkable impact straight from the off was Trent. But the exception rather than the rule is no way to illustrate an argument.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:36 am  

dallas didn't and he was out with two broken jaws.
im fairly sure that mark riddell had back surgery before he came to us.
herny paul didnt take long to get up to speed,

and kenny only played over here for about 6 months! so if he took this long to bed in he wouldnt have been remembered as the great he is by the older generation.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Thu May 12, 2011 11:36 am  

The bottom line with finch is this! I put it out there on the pies board right from when you first signed him. Finch is a ham n eggs nrl half back. He's not a world beater, he's not gonna go the length of the field. He has a solid passing game, a solid kicking game, he's a solid defender. He tough and a niggler. He's nothing flash but he will do a job. people should expect nothing more from him because he's never been anything other than solid. That's why he played origin. Not because he's some outstanding talent. Some people in the uk still don't get origin. To play origin the likes of Gould and Pearce spell it out all the time. You need to have no fear of getting hurt to win and not cough the ball up in your own forty and make daft errors. Finch is one of those blokes.