Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 11:38 am  

The games afoot wrote:

You still in panto mode?…personally I didn’t think he was all that good and given his nickname “handbrake” says it all….i await now another poster saying “well the stats are”

Why are you always so angry?

McDonald did well for us in his short spell otherwise it's unlikely that the reigning SL Champions would have signed him from us.

Since you mentioned it the stats are that he scored ten tries in seventeen games for us. Not a world beater but he certainly doesn't deserve to be mentioned alongside Maiava and Evans.

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 12:03 pm  

The games afoot wrote:

You still in panto mode?…personally I didn’t think he was all that good and given his nickname “handbrake” says it all….i await now another poster saying “well the stats are”

Tis the season to be jolly, la la lal lal la, la lal lal la.

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:32 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Why are you always so angry?

McDonald did well for us in his short spell otherwise it's unlikely that the reigning SL Champions would have signed him from us.

Since you mentioned it the stats are that he scored ten tries in seventeen games for us. Not a world beater but he certainly doesn't deserve to be mentioned alongside Maiava and Evans.

Not angry at all and my quote about stats was proven right.He just didn’t seem to run his weight that’s all .As for the reigning s/l champions signing him,fair play but he wasn’t that standard imo

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:58 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Why are you always so angry?

McDonald did well for us in his short spell otherwise it's unlikely that the reigning SL Champions would have signed him from us.

Since you mentioned it the stats are that he scored ten tries in seventeen games for us. Not a world beater but he certainly doesn't deserve to be mentioned alongside Maiava and Evans.

Just loves an argument, manages to disagree with everything I say, always agrees with Talentboy too, which makes me wonder too.

Agree on Mcdonald, decent player for us, we wanted to keep him, what props scores that many tries, went onto to play over 100 games for Saints, Leeds and Wigan. As you say we have has alot of worse players than him and shouldn't be held in the same company as those mentions, who were both awful.

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:31 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Wayne Mcdonald was very good for us.

Very good .....no chance

He was ok

Likes of Minichello and Kelly were very good wouldn't class Mcdonald near that category

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 4:31 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Just loves an argument, manages to disagree with everything I say, always agrees with Talentboy too, which makes me wonder too.

Agree on Mcdonald, decent player for us, we wanted to keep him, what props scores that many tries, went onto to play over 100 games for Saints, Leeds and Wigan. As you say we have has alot of worse players than him and shouldn't be held in the same company as those mentions, who were both awful.

Don’t love a argument at all and tbf mate,you do talk a lot of sense and I do agree with 90% of the time but if I disagree il tell you.Thats the good thing about fans opinions,I just didn’t rate him but agree about him not being as bad as the 2 you have mentioned but nowhere as good as other better 2nd rowers.Mind you,he’s not as bad as a Aussie we got in the 80s…Dave Brown had a big reputation and was a Aussie international…by god he was bloody awful.As for agreeing with talent boy…what a insult,he talks b@lls 99% of the time and the other 1% isn’t much better.

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 4:33 pm  

Thetalentboy wrote:

Very good .....no chance

He was ok

Likes of Minichello and Kelly were very good wouldn't class Mcdonald near that category

Kelly?…he was a bloody stand-off,not a 2nd rower/prop…You can’t compare them at all and stop banging on about a pack from 6/7 years ago.

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:02 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

Why are you always so angry?

McDonald did well for us in his short spell otherwise it's unlikely that the reigning SL Champions would have signed him from us.

Since you mentioned it the stats are that he scored ten tries in seventeen games for us. Not a world beater but he certainly doesn't deserve to be mentioned alongside Maiava and Evans.

Here’s one for you

1993–99 Wakefield Trinity (Wildcats) 27 8 0 0 32
2000 Hull Sharks 13 4 0 0 16
2001 St Helens 18 4 0 0 16
2002–05 Leeds Rhinos 81 14 0 0 56
2005 Wigan Warriors 4 0 0 0 0
2005–06 Huddersfield Giants 34 1 0 0 4
Total 177 31 0 0 124
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1999 ScotlandScotland 6 0 0 0 0
2009 United Arab EmiratesUAE 2 2 0 0 8
Source: [1]

Apart from Leeds and hudds…he didn’t do much at the 2 big clubs did he ….can’t argue with stats

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:13 pm  

The games afoot wrote:

Kelly?…he was a bloody stand-off,not a 2nd rower/prop…You can’t compare them at all and stop banging on about a pack from 6/7 years ago.

I was merely pointing out players who were "very good"

Mcdonald wasn't in that category for us

Just alarming how bad our pack has gotten since then 6 years isn't that long really

Re: Pre-season. : Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:15 pm  

The games afoot wrote:

Don’t love a argument at all and tbf mate,you do talk a lot of sense and I do agree with 90% of the time but if I disagree il tell you.Thats the good thing about fans opinions,I just didn’t rate him but agree about him not being as bad as the 2 you have mentioned but nowhere as good as other better 2nd rowers.Mind you,he’s not as bad as a Aussie we got in the 80s…Dave Brown had a big reputation and was a Aussie international…by god he was bloody awful.As for agreeing with talent boy…what a insult,he talks b@lls 99% of the time and the other 1% isn’t much better.

Funny how most of what I say ends up right

I'll say it now 3 or 4 years from now Houghton people will be like we could of done better

Yes he's a legend for tackle 52

But we'd have won more than 2 challenge cups with josh Hodgson as our 9

Can't have a 9 with no attacking threat