Re: Re: : Mon May 23, 2011 6:46 pm  

Baked Bean Boogie wrote:

what a stupid comment, have you never heard of Micheal Jordan and many many more 6' 6" and over men in the NBA, now those guys have agility

Tall be in good at basketball shocker!
How many 6' 6"ers in rugby league?

Re: Re: : Tue May 24, 2011 6:36 pm  

Baked Bean Boogie wrote:

what a stupid comment, have you never heard of Micheal Jordan and many many more 6' 6" and over men in the NBA, now those guys have agility

I think basketball requires a certain level of agility but it's definitely different to a rugby league centre. I honestly can't think of a 6' 6" rugby league centre.
6' 9" forwards in rugby union have agility for the line-outs and they move about the field reasonably well but I wouldn't want Wigan to sign one.
McDonald who played for Wigan, Leeds and Saints was 6' 7" but not impressive. Saints also had a tall player who could head the ball but had no pace off the mark.
Stupid or not, that's my opinion and I don't mind if you don't agree. You are entitled to your opinion, which incidentally I don't regard as stupid.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Tue May 24, 2011 6:58 pm  

There's one union player (whose name escapes me) but he played for Leicester in the back row, mid 6 ft, and I remember a stat saying that he was the 2nd fastest player at the club behind one of their wingers (probably the fastest in the league). He would have made a fantastic centre, big, strong and very quick. EDIT: Tom Croft - 6ft 5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7179460.stm From a couple of years ago but sums up what I was saying.

There's one union player (whose name escapes me) but he played for Leicester in the back row, mid 6 ft, and I remember a stat saying that he was the 2nd fastest player at the club behind one of their wingers (probably the fastest in the league). He would have made a fantastic centre, big, strong and very quick. EDIT: Tom Croft - 6ft 5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7179460.stm From a couple of years ago but sums up what I was saying.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Tue May 24, 2011 10:22 pm  

inside_man wrote: There's one union player (whose name escapes me) but he played for Leicester in the back row, mid 6 ft, and I remember a stat saying that he was the 2nd fastest player at the club behind one of their wingers (probably the fastest in the league). He would have made a fantastic centre, big, strong and very quick. EDIT: Tom Croft - 6ft 5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7179460.stm We had one of our own. Barrie-Jon Mather, a flying 6ft6 centre. An RL star in every way, except that he had an RU attitude. Could have been remembered as one of the greats, but chose not to be remembered at all.

inside_man wrote: There's one union player (whose name escapes me) but he played for Leicester in the back row, mid 6 ft, and I remember a stat saying that he was the 2nd fastest player at the club behind one of their wingers (probably the fastest in the league). He would have made a fantastic centre, big, strong and very quick. EDIT: Tom Croft - 6ft 5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7179460.stm We had one of our own. Barrie-Jon Mather, a flying 6ft6 centre. An RL star in every way, except that he had an RU attitude. Could have been remembered as one of the greats, but chose not to be remembered at all.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Tue May 24, 2011 11:00 pm  

There are plenty of 6 foot plus giant centres with great athleticism running round. Sadly they are all kids who once they enter into the pro environment will be thrown into the back row and ruined.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Wed May 25, 2011 12:02 am  

jonh wrote:

There are plenty of 6 foot plus giant centres with great athleticism running round. Sadly they are all kids who once they enter into the pro environment will be thrown into the back row and ruined.

Not in Aus though. Joel Tomkins would have been brought up as a centre in Aus.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Wed May 25, 2011 1:04 am  

Also heard the brett kearney rumour today, where would we play him though? Assuming Leuluai would move to hooker permanently, would we put kearney at fullback and sam back in the halves or simply put kearney in the halves? Also cant believe he is only 27, thought he was in his early 30s.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Wed May 25, 2011 10:08 am  

I think Kearney is a very good player. You can see him easily fitting into the side at FB. The guy has a good rugby brain, he's got a good skill set with his passing, running and kicking game. A very good signing.

If we got Kearney could we still go 2 the NRL for a centre or would we be up 2 the quota?

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Wed May 25, 2011 11:12 am  

What about the prop Hill from Leigh?

He's easily the best prop in the championship and still only 22. A work in progress but probably further down the line someone like Ben Davies.

Re: Rumours and signings v6 (inc Maguire Rumours) : Wed May 25, 2011 11:22 am  

Do we need a prop? We've got 4 healthy ones at the minute that are doing very well, we're losing Coley but we have Fielden coming back in. Also have Dom Crosby knocking on the door, as well has Ben Davies hopefully at some point.

I wouldn't feel we needed to stock up anymore on props, a centre + a hooker/FB/HB please.