Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:21 pm  

Hessle rover wrote:

Graeme Horne signed a 1 year deal. Decent pro. Please don't put him in the Centre spot tho.

That's a ringing endorsement for you....decent pro

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:25 pm  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

If these signings are true I'm somewhat aghast that we re sign a complete set of forwards who were bullied off the park last season to set them loose in a division were its commonly recognised that intimidation is a widely used tactic.

Again too many light weight back rowers. It's ok being lightweight but you need to have some balls (see Bateman). We have Clark and Scruton to help them but desperately need more. Tilse I'd keep. He's average but any props would struggle with that back row for support. He kept going last year whilst many of our back row abandoned their post.

It's ok saying we've been relegated, who can we get etc etc. The measuring stick is Leigh and who was in their forward pack? That one that took apart ours on our ground. Paterson is better than any back row we have, including Greenwood.

Why haven't we tried to get the best players in the championship, probably improving our team whilst weakening our opponents. Instead we've stayed loyal to an unbalanced weak set of players.

Horne and Cockayne are holding back opportunities for young players.

You maybe can't get the best championship players because they're contracted or pushing for SL contracts. Maybe JP only has mates at SL clubs.

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:29 pm  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

That's a ringing endorsement for you....decent pro

Whether you agree or not, I think we are short of old head or two. He's only championship quality now, but I'm sure an injury free season for him can benefit us.

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:56 pm  

There's old heads and old heads.

Not a leader for me.

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:04 pm  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

There's old heads and old heads.

Not a leader for me.

To be fair recruitment isn't finished yet I would like to get a prop in the Dwayne Weston mouldy he more than held his own against SL opponents

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:30 pm  

Burtons Forearm wrote:

I agree Mulhern is hard to get excited about but what do you see in Cox....

There's multiple replies to that I see now I've typed it.

On the rugby front Mulhern can tackle and play for more than 10 minutes. He appears to have an IQ greater than 6. All help make him better than Cox.

Have I been saying I like Cox again?

I do that on occasion, I think they're both fairly poor, but, prior to his spleen incident and at Wire earlier this year Cox was doing quite well.

Hold on, Ghost Town just came on 't telly...

Too much fighting on the dance floor.

Rankin's Roger, lovely stuff.

Anyway, I digress, Mulhern, he's just rubbish, he can tackle, but he makes some horrible mistakes in defence, is easily stepped and gives away gormclops penalties. Going forward, I lost count of the times I thought, "shizzle, who dropped that? Mulhern".

Cox is as thick as a three hundred strong herd of pig's excrement though, I'll give you that.

Fun Boy Three now, marvellous.

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:33 pm  

A Gareth Hock, Ben Westwood type of player is what we need. may not cut it the Super League the year after, but would get us out of the championship at the first time of asking.

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:36 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

To be fair recruitment isn't finished yet I would like to get a prop in the Dwayne Weston mouldy he more than held his own against SL opponents

Has Dwayne Weston died? Is that why he's gone mouldy?

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 10:32 pm  

going by the Featherstone away game in the middle 8s we will struggle with this squad to get into top 2 let alone qualify where can you get 3or4 quality players at that time of year when other teams are also after players aswell seems to have rewarded certain players for loyal mediocrity has sheens seen some of them in action

Re: Players next year : Wed Nov 02, 2016 10:42 pm  

rover 2000 wrote:

going by the Featherstone away game in the middle 8s we will struggle with this squad to get into top 2 let alone qualify where can you get 3or4 quality players at that time of year when other teams are also after players aswell seems to have rewarded certain players for loyal mediocrity has sheens seen some of them in action

With all due respect, I'd take Tim Sheens opinion on players over yours any day. Come to think of it, I'd probably take Tim Vine's too.