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Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:25 pm  

Luppylad wrote:

Ray price was quality for us

Indeed. TrinTrin clearly didn't see him play.

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:35 pm  

PopTart wrote:

You don't think Ray Price was a good signing? Hmmm

There are always exceptions to every rule but I bet we had more who like O’Brien (may have got that wrong) than the Ray Price’s of this world.

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:42 pm  

Pat Bateman wrote:

Hmmm saints with Roby, LMS, Lomax and Walmsley all above 32.

LMS will be 37/38 this season and still gets another contract . It’s not the age but the size of the heart that matters in this sport

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:41 pm  

TrinTrin wrote:

Well, another old man with big reputation, lucrative money deal, we never learn, he simply cannot match & play as high energy 40 minutes
If he could he would still be staying in OZ ! I hope I am wrong but, even Ray Price found out, you loose energy at that age, he'll even saints & Wigan understand this issue !!!!

Yawn

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:41 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

There are always exceptions to every rule but I bet we had more who like O’Brien (may have got that wrong) than the Ray Price’s of this world.

Paul O’Bien was a quality centre… just didn’t settle into life in the UK .. but the world was very different in the 1970s

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:46 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

There are always exceptions to every rule but I bet we had more who like O’Brien (may have got that wrong) than the Ray Price’s of this world.

Ray price was 36 when he joined us and had been retired for two years. Proctor is 34 and a current (almost) NRL regular. There is no comparison actually, Price was a far far bigger risk.

So what about big Ali?

Paul Sykes?

Liam Finn?

And all the others I can’t remember off the top of my head.

I mean we have this discussion every time a player who isn’t in nappies turns up but people like you and Trin Trin never learn. It would be funny if it wernt so tragic.

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Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:54 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

There are always exceptions to every rule but I bet we had more who like O’Brien (may have got that wrong) than the Ray Price’s of this world.

You make a bet on someone you don't even know. Classic.

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 10:11 pm  

My system will not allow me to quote but in reply to PT I was not betting on any single signing just the fact that for every Ray Price we signed there will be another who failed. The one I was thinking of was a prop from the NRL who came over but with busted knees who I think played only a few games and then retired and no not Tronc.

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 10:21 pm  

Clinton o Brian I think .

Re: Kevin proctor : Mon Oct 24, 2022 10:46 pm  

Definitely Clinton o Brien, came to us from Newcastle knights, to be fair to the guy he came to us with knee issues and there it was always acknowledged by both the club and the guy that it might not work - effectively a paid trial - after 4 games he put his hand up and said he couldn’t perform.

Was a shame but don’t think it cost much to the club