Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:43 am  

Fair to say that's prior into the pack and maybe king at loose he had gott some good pace and hands.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:44 am  

Given out players ball handling skills throughout the park we will see some very fast plays with long coaching

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:23 am  

Simmo71 wrote:

Yep - I’ll take that.
Young, hungry, clearly not just come for a pay day.
And won’t be heavy on the salary cap.

Certainly beats Casty on a one year deal....

Right type of player we want, one year so if he’s not up to much nothing really lost, gives Holroyd a player to rotate with and if he’s good can keep him.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:45 am  

I'd say our pack if everyone is fit would be:

Oledzki Leeming Tetevano
Mellor Martin
Prior

Subs
Dwyer, Smith, Holroyd, Vuniyayawa/ Thompson/ Donaldson

It's not the biggest pack we've ever had and not biggest pack in Super league but what it does look like is It's a very mobile and a pack that will be able to play with players who can play big minutes and we have some very good ball players to help in attack. I hope Holroyd gets plenty of game time next season but not too much exposure we did it right with Oldezki easing him into match 17 so we have to do same with Holroyd. Vuniyayawa is a smart signing by club imo he's young and wanting to prove himself and he's only here on a initial 1 year deal if he works out and he plays well he can earn himself a contract extension but if he's poor then we can let him go.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:29 pm  

Simmo71 wrote:

Yep - I’ll take that.
Young, hungry, clearly not just come for a pay day.
And won’t be heavy on the salary cap.

Certainly beats Casty on a one year deal....

Agree 100%

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:39 pm  

On the face of it, if this is Ava's replacement it's a clear downgrade in terms of proven NRL experience and ability. However, Parcel and Garbutt were also very similar in terms of games played in the top grade and they did alright. Fingers crossed on this one, but the one year deal is a get out if he turns out to be an Achurch/Peteru. Has anybody got any links of him in action?

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:50 pm  

Jrrhino wrote:

I'd say our pack if everyone is fit would be:

Oledzki Leeming Tetevano
Mellor Martin
Prior

Subs
Dwyer, Smith, Holroyd, Vuniyayawa/ Thompson/ Donaldson

It's not the biggest pack we've ever had and not biggest pack in Super league but what it does look like is It's a very mobile and a pack that will be able to play with players who can play big minutes and we have some very good ball players to help in attack. I hope Holroyd gets plenty of game time next season but not too much exposure we did it right with Oldezki easing him into match 17 so we have to do same with Holroyd. Vuniyayawa is a smart signing by club imo he's young and wanting to prove himself and he's only here on a initial 1 year deal if he works out and he plays well he can earn himself a contract extension but if he's poor then we can let him go.

Not the stellar prop I was hoping for, but on 1 year this makes sense.

You say that pack isn't that big, but Mik, Tommy and Tet I think are all over 110kg. Leeming is solid and so is Martin. Cam Smith again is a decent weight. So is Thompson. Donno plays above his weight in D at least.

Actually I don't think we'll be giving too much away as long as we have some luck with injuries. Not the biggest in the league but pretty mobile and with some handling ability in there. We just lack another cannonball type player but we'll see what King is like and if it's not working we can play for a bigger fish for 2022.

Know absolutely nothing about King, let's hope the club have made an astute choice here.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:08 pm  

Good mobile pack looking forward to the new season

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:10 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

Not the stellar prop I was hoping for, but on 1 year this makes sense.

You say that pack isn't that big, but Mik, Tommy and Tet I think are all over 110kg. Leeming is solid and so is Martin. Cam Smith again is a decent weight. So is Thompson. Donno plays above his weight in D at least.

Actually I don't think we'll be giving too much away as long as we have some luck with injuries. Not the biggest in the league but pretty mobile and with some handling ability in there. We just lack another cannonball type player but we'll see what King is like and if it's not working we can play for a bigger fish for 2022.

Know absolutely nothing about King, let's hope the club have made an astute choice here.

Tetevano is listed at 107kg i believe but I get what your saying just comparing it to pur previous packs when we had the likes JP, Kylie, Big Ali, Bailey, Kirke,Delaney.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour Thread V3 : Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:42 pm  

Jrrhino wrote:

Vuniyayawa is a smart signing by club imo he's young and wanting to prove himself and he's only here on a initial 1 year deal if he works out and he plays well he can earn himself a contract extension but if he's poor then we can let him go.

And gives us an extra year to try and source a more experienced NRL middle for 2022 if he doesn’t work out.

It’s probably a calculated gamble on the clubs’ part and possibly is indicative of the lack of real quality overseas middles available this close to the start of the season? (That are willing to come over to COVID UK) At least we seem to have learnt from the Achurch mistake and not given him a 3/4 year deal from the outset.

if he doesn’t settle or proves a dud we look elsewhere and have more time to sort something out. If he proves to be a hit we extend his deal (also you’d think/hope that as he’s only just broken into 1st grade this last season with only 5 games that he shouldn’t be ‘breaking the bank’ on our salary cap.