: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:27 pm  

Going off todays showing i'd be reasonably happy if the Griffin rumours were true, not seen much of him before to be completely honest.

: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:28 pm  

inside_man wrote:

Going off todays showing i'd be reasonably happy if the Griffin rumours were true, not seen much of him before to be completely honest.

If hes good enough for Huddersfield playing like this he's definanetly good enough for us.

: Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:33 pm  

Mother Feka wrote:

If hes good enough for Huddersfield playing like this he's definanetly good enough for us.

He would be an improvement on any of our props IMO.

: Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:24 pm  

Griffin was superb today there best prop and really laid the platform at the beginning of the match, I'd be surprised if they let him go.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:07 am  

Mother Feka wrote:

Personally i think IL is doing the right thing, so what if we have to have a year of no new signings, look at the signings this year they have hardly set the team alight, maybe with a settled team we will start to win things. With reguards to the prop situation we have him already at the club in Mossop, he's already hitting super league at a pace so imagine him in 2011 with 1 and a half years experience under his belt? By 2012, Hock will be back, we will have got rid of Fielden and have a decent prop to play along side Mossop and we could be looking at a team of:

Phelps
Roberts
Gleeson
Goulding
Richards
Sam
New 7
New 8
Leuluai
Mossop
Hock
Joel
O'Loughlin

Feka
Prescott
McIlorum
Farrell

With players like Farrell, McIlorum, Prescott, Joel, Mossop, Sam, Goulding, Phelps all getting better as they get more experience and still being young we could really be looking at a dominant team for the next couple of years. (if we manage to get the right coach)

That is about the most sensilbe thing I have read on here for a while. For me we need a prop and thats about it. Stop the changing of the squad, have faith in our youth and we will not be a million miles away. Adding more than 2 new faces a year no matter how good they are causes too much disruption and gets us no where.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:15 am  

LondonRobster wrote:

That is about the most sensilbe thing I have read on here for a while. For me we need a prop and thats about it. Stop the changing of the squad, have faith in our youth and we will not be a million miles away. Adding more than 2 new faces a year no matter how good they are causes too much disruption and gets us no where.

Trouble is a lot on here have the Uncle Mo way of thinking quick fix. Thank God I.L. has his head screwed on right and is one that plans ahead. It takes time to turn things round and we are going in the right direction now lets just keep it up.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:53 am  

odemwingie wrote:

He would be an improvement on any of our props IMO.

He looked a good player yesterday and is a decent player overall. He's a similar quality to Prescott and Coley, better then the level Fielden is currently at and better then Feka(although if Feka got fit he'd be light years ahead of Griffin).

I'd take him in an instant with the way things are in that department at present.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:08 am  

LondonRobster wrote:

That is about the most sensilbe thing I have read on here for a while. For me we need a prop and thats about it. Stop the changing of the squad, have faith in our youth and we will not be a million miles away. Adding more than 2 new faces a year no matter how good they are causes too much disruption and gets us no where.

Yeppers. The reduction of imports will see us rise again. We will produce the youngsters as we always have, but we will not have to either be creative with the cap, or complete with others who are more creative. When other, smaller, wannabe club, get the level playing field they want, thay are the ones who will be found lacking. I would like to see the cap raised for clubs who do have the money, its not their "fault" they raise more, the others should get their act together.

Althougth we all want greater success, we would be odd if we did not, i can see us rising very quickly from the total mess of 2006....

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:26 am  

Mother Feka wrote:

If hes good enough for Huddersfield playing like this he's definanetly good enough for us.

It's very interesting that Griffin has been cited by a number of Wigan fans as the sort of 'poor quality signing' that has bedevilled us for several years now.

This is a mindset that we simply have to change.

It's a form of petulant arrogance that led one particular Wigan fan, who no longer posts on here, to make repeated statements to the effect that only the very best in the world were good enough for Wigan.

Sure, it's desirable to have players like that - but these days you're only going to get them now and then. The past is gone; that era will never return as long as there's a salary cap.

Meanwhile, we SHOULD be looking at players like Griffin, who are performing very well in a team that is way better than us.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:07 am  

Cruncher wrote:

It's very interesting that Griffin has been cited by a number of Wigan fans as the sort of 'poor quality signing' that has bedevilled us for several years now.

This is a mindset that we simply have to change.

It's a form of petulant arrogance that led one particular Wigan fan, who no longer posts on here, to make repeated statements to the effect that only the very best in the world were good enough for Wigan.

Sure, it's desirable to have players like that - but these days you're only going to get them now and then. The past is gone; that era will never return as long as there's a salary cap.

Meanwhile, we SHOULD be looking at players like Griffin, who are performing very well in a team that is way better than us.