trio leaving : Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:31 am  

Ryan Claton,Chris Feather,Ryan Boyle will be leaving the club now there contracts have come to a end..what your thoughts???me personaly would have like matterson to work with boyle as i think he has potential

: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:39 am  

I still reckon we'll see Clayton given another year and I haven't given up hope on Boyle being offered another deal although admittedly it does look unlikely now.

Clayton has impressed me since returning but as many will attest to, he's no world beater.

Boyle looks like he could do great things and it would be nice to see him do that at his home town club but it seems that for whatever reason he isn't going to be kept on. We can all speculate as to why that may be, but I guess we might never really know the truth.

Feather hasn't earned another deal and has looked poor for the majority of the season after good early signs.

been : Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:40 am  

been a long time coming and largely expected. Trying to pre-empt the moaning to come:

We demand our coach got us promoted, we demanded our coach improved out 12th finish and targetted the play-offs - so now we need to trust he knows what he's doing.

There can't be anyone on here who claims to have better insight into players at the club's potential, how they train and how far in the game they can go. I often think I know best and give my opinion but truly, I don't.

A few years ago I was cock-a-hoop when we signed Andrew John's halfback partner from Australia....... We all know how Rudder turned out and a few years before that when we signed a journeyman stand-off who started badly and eventually was so average at 6 we had to move him to 13 and we all kow how Vowles turned out.

So, lets not roll out the "sack TM and his aussie favourites" banner until we get to February and see the 'new' on field product.

I agree I would rather have kept Boyle in MY OPINION, but if there is something else going on here that I don't read in the program or see on the field, then I have to trust Terry. Just like I would not accept anyone in my company telling me how to run my part of the business.

Re: been : Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:43 am  

mdean wrote:

been a long time coming and largely expected. Trying to pre-empt the moaning to come:

We demand our coach got us promoted, we demanded our coach improved out 12th finish and targetted the play-offs - so now we need to trust he knows what he's doing.

There can't be anyone on here who claims to have better insight into players at the club's potential, how they train and how far in the game they can go. I often think I know best and give my opinion but truly, I don't.

A few years ago I was cock-a-hoop when we signed Andrew John's halfback partner from Australia....... We all know how Rudder turned out and a few years before that when we signed a journeyman stand-off who started badly and eventually was so average at 6 we had to move him to 13 and we all kow how Vowles turned out.

So, lets not roll out the "sack TM and his aussie favourites" banner until we get to February and see the 'new' on field product.

I agree I would rather have kept Boyle in MY OPINION, but if there is something else going on here that I don't read in the program or see on the field, then I have to trust Terry. Just like I would not accept anyone in my company telling me how to run my part of the business.

Can't really argue with that tbh.

Re: been : Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:49 am  

Gazemous wrote:

Can't really argue with that tbh.

People will!

: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:55 am  

I didn't realise that this was an official announcement, more an assumption that new deals hadn't been offered and therefore they were gone.

It's a massive shame about Boyle but I guess we'll see if it was a mistake or not at some point down the line.

: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:01 pm  

States that these three plus James Ford are the only ones leaving the senior squad. Does that mean we can take netherton as having signed a new deal.

just a thought or am i reading between the lines

: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:10 pm  

I'm sure RW made a statement recently saying they were in talks with Netherton about extending his contract.

so thats 5 out (Faumuina, Ford, Clayton, Feather, Boyle)
and 2 In (Jackson, Snitch) do far.

Re: been : Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:29 pm  

mdean wrote:

been a long time coming and largely expected. Trying to pre-empt the moaning to come:

We demand our coach got us promoted, we demanded our coach improved out 12th finish and targetted the play-offs - so now we need to trust he knows what he's doing.

There can't be anyone on here who claims to have better insight into players at the club's potential, how they train and how far in the game they can go. I often think I know best and give my opinion but truly, I don't.

A few years ago I was cock-a-hoop when we signed Andrew John's halfback partner from Australia....... We all know how Rudder turned out and a few years before that when we signed a journeyman stand-off who started badly and eventually was so average at 6 we had to move him to 13 and we all kow how Vowles turned out.

So, lets not roll out the "sack TM and his aussie favourites" banner until we get to February and see the 'new' on field product.

I agree I would rather have kept Boyle in MY OPINION, but if there is something else going on here that I don't read in the program or see on the field, then I have to trust Terry. Just like I would not accept anyone in my company telling me how to run my part of the business.

Perfectly sane and reasonable outlook.

Cue the sack TM brigade, Ryan Boyle was the second coming of the messiah

: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:29 pm  

dont know all the reasons for letting boyley go but can not think that jackson will offer anything better ryan. most people know that he is only 21/22 years old and jackson about 30/31 years old, just dont understand it at all, the games i have seen him in, he has done well. to keep picking clayton in place of him on a regular basis must have hurt him too.