Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 6:57 am  

That’ll explain Dereks weekly head loss

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:10 am  

Jake the Peg wrote:

I don't get why people have solace I the fact Abdul is only costing £50k on the cap. It doesn't matter if he's free if he hardly plays and is ineffective when he does due to being overweight and not fit enough.

People have a lot of faith in cartwright being able to do what previous coaches couldnt with Pele and abdul

Boring

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:13 am  

Is this our 17 so far

1. Stewart
2. Briscoe
3. Hardaker
4. Chamberlain
5. Martin/Okunbur
6. Truey
7. Abdul
8. Ese’ese
9. Unknown
10. Ashworth
11. Cartwright
12. Holmes
13. Asiata
14. Fash/Aydin
15. Pele
16. Bourmah
17. Sao/Lane

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:26 am  

Catalan and Warrington the two clubs after Bateman.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:33 am  

Dave K. wrote:

You keep saying this, but do you think we will start the season with 2 centres?

I said I hope I’m wrong, but are these experienced players coming to be squad players? Or ‘competition’ for places with Litten/reserves player?

Hardaker, Chamberlain and another quota centre is a lot spent on these positions. Maybe Carlos’ mega wage will allow it, though.

Still hoping for Lafai.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:54 am  

Dave K. wrote:

Yep if its Chamberlain for Scott
Hardraker for Sutcliffe
Lafai or equivalent for carlos.

If Chamberlain and Hardraker are first choice I'd worry.

Maybe the are planned first choice and it’s just the reality of the financial situation we are in, If we are struggling personally I’d sooner take risks on unknown players (just have someone better at identifying them rather than just taking whoever the bulldogs want rid) but I think it’s an obvious strategy to try and fill the side with steady journeyman in the hope we just don’t get hammered every week.

To be fair Hardaker and Chamberlain are better then what we’ve been able to field most weeks this season.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:58 am  

With Catalan and Warrington after Bateman, does that suggest perhaps that the rumoured signing of Whitehead will be happening, as I think Catalan would have been all over that. Whitehead and Cartwright in the Back Row, with Holmes off the bench?

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 8:03 am  

davey41 wrote:

Plus I don’t get why some keep claiming he’s unfit and out of form?

If he was would Catalan, who are challenging at the top of the table, keep picking him?

If he plays for us like he is this season for them then that will be a big improvement on anything we’ve seen this season.

I've watched him in the last couple of games and he's been pretty much a passenger on the pitch, struggling to keep up with play, having no real influence on the attack and looking like an oil tanker in defence. If other people can't see that then they need to remove their B&W tinted specs.

I think he has 5 try assists this season, for context, sneyd, in a worse team, has 14 and sneyd used to get slagged from pillar to post on here.

I may be proven wrong, I think it may have happened previously at some point, but his track record doesn't give me any belief I will be. Other than a few early season months at rovers last year and the year before, his career has been monumentally underwhelming and pinning our hopes on him will prove to be a mistake.

He's 28, not 21

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 8:05 am  

Ellam wrote:

Boring

People often find opinions that challenge theirs boring. Maybe you should open your mind to other possibilities than those you currently believe in

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 8:10 am  

Every comment you do is negative no matter who we sign you have a pop that's why it's boring nothing to do with no agreeing with me.