Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:22 pm  

my mistake wiki wrong,smith has played 14 games for wakey.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:24 pm  

fosdyke99 wrote:

cant believe we are interested in morgan smith,hes not exactly setting the rl world alight,just played 3 games this season,2 for wakey and one on loan to fev.

That's not right, has played alot more game than that.

There isn't a player in the world who would have played well behind that Wakey pack.

As a backup its a decent signing and a massive upgrade on McNamara.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:54 pm  

Anybody else notice them rovers fans commenting on every fc post on hull live I love that we live rent free in there head lol

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:59 pm  

I'm sure he had a good season partnering Abdul when London went down on 20 or so points. Use to play some really good attacking rugby

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:24 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

I'm sure he had a good season partnering Abdul when London went down on 20 or so points. Use to play some really good attacking rugby

He scored 22 tries in 30 games for Featherstone playing at stand off. That's good enough pedigree to be a back up half/hooker for me.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:53 pm  

Looking at a stop gap signing I wouldn’t be against Matty Ashurst. Only down side is he’s probably be around 33

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:56 pm  

Anyone else from Wakey worth a look Sam Eseh, Senior (although he's a Hudds player)?

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:11 pm  

Josh Jones has become available

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:31 pm  

Yippee try yay wrote:

My original thought was Ashworth to play backrow but he just looks too big and not mobile enough for the second row so I imagine he'll be taking Taylors place in the squad, I think we might just have to wait until 2025 to really target strengthening the second row or see if something becomes available mid season.

There just isn't the availability especially in this country, we have 3 good centres all who could play second row, we might have to move one short term until we can get some decent size in.

I don’t want to make too many assumptions based on one game but I was at Huddersfield Friday and apart from his late hit on Abdul to earn a yellow Ashworth was incredibly poor. He’s big, but he was incredibly immobile and got found wanting with pace at him. Granted he’s not played much and had litten, parcell and Lewis running at him in what looks a pre conceived idea however he certainly looked off it. Needs a proper pre season which he should get but he was far away from what you’d want. Agree he’s not quick enough for 2nd row so not sure that’s a viable option

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:38 pm  

mean_machine wrote:

I don’t want to make too many assumptions based on one game but I was at Huddersfield Friday and apart from his late hit on Abdul to earn a yellow Ashworth was incredibly poor. He’s big, but he was incredibly immobile and got found wanting with pace at him. Granted he’s not played much and had litten, parcell and Lewis running at him in what looks a pre conceived idea however he certainly looked off it. Needs a proper pre season which he should get but he was far away from what you’d want. Agree he’s not quick enough for 2nd row so not sure that’s a viable option

To be fair to the lad he's not been in hudds side much since it was announced he's leaving, with a proper pre season and gametime in a settled side he should improve tenfold, Huddersfield are as big of a shambles as us but they've spend bucket loads of money on god knows how many players since whinging watson took charge.