Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:03 pm  

Can't even remember him, best Rovers player with a girls name...

Tracey Lazenbey (apologies for more than likely spelling his name incorrectly) bonkers.

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:41 pm  

Sandro II Terrorista wrote:

Can't even remember him, best Rovers player with a girls name...

Tracey Lazenbey (apologies for more than likely spelling his name incorrectly) bonkers.

There was a story (probably not true) that we signed Lindsey Johnson by mistake and in fact it was Peter Johnstone who we wanted and did sign in the end Lindsey spent nearly all season in the A team

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:54 pm  

I like that tale, it's true from now.

I can tell, we share a common love of Rovers rubbishness, we had to, to survive the nineties.

The only reason for going was for the gallows humour.

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:35 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

Joel Clinton has to be the worse signing in comparison to the money he was on and a special mention for our 1986 signing Lindsey Johnson

How much were we paying Clinton?

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:48 am  

SirStan wrote:

How much were we paying Clinton?

I'm just going on what other supporters who know what every player earns down to the last penny say and it was a lot

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sun Sep 06, 2015 8:49 am  

SirStan wrote:

I have kept out of the Tilse debate for now, as I felt he needed time to settle. He's not the worst signing the club has made, he's not even the worst prop we have signed in SL. Lets remind ourselves of some vintage names:

Jim Gannon
David Mills
Garrett Crossman
Ervan Tuimuvave
Danny Ward
Ryan O'Hara

All the above signed since 2007, all gash and pinched a living whilst at Craven Park. (maybe not Ervan but a tree-puller he certainly was not). Tilse is better than all of them.

However, is he good enough to use our last overseas spot on? I suspect not.

STAN i agree that list is good David Mills what a donkey and the rest Are rubbish But i still think Tilse is crap and pinching money but if he is still here next season and plays well I will eat my hat

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sun Sep 06, 2015 9:13 am  

I don't think he's as bad as everyone is making out. Walker has been equally as bad since his 'issues'. As Sandro says tho he's not good enough for a quota spot.

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sun Sep 06, 2015 9:39 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

There was a story (probably not true) that we signed Lindsey Johnson by mistake and in fact it was Peter Johnstone who we wanted and did sign in the end Lindsey spent nearly all season in the A team

High profile bookie Joel Caine tells the story of coming to Sydney for a trial with another kid named Danny Buderus. Caine was signed on the spot and couldn't work out why he kept getting named at hooker in games. Eventually the coach took him aside and showed him footage of his trial to ask him why he wasn't doing the same things, and the coach had got the numbers wrong and thought he was Buderus.

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:31 am  

I'm in the anti Tilse clan, he's a plodder thats all, even in his outstanding CC cup games he was only really average IMHO, his big offload game hasn't appeared and he doesn't get into full stride before he's tackled.

A poor rash decision signing IMO

Re: Squad to play wakefield. : Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:35 am  

Think a few are being a bit harsh on tilse,good tackler,no frills and in his days with canberra had a decent offload,but I do agree for a quota spot I would hope we had signed somebody who offered a bit more impact than tilse,who is basically a steady eddie.