: Tue May 05, 2009 2:16 pm  

The Joker® wrote:

Drop Matt Diskin for the Castleford Tigers match and give the Danny Buderus and Paul McShane combination a go i say, I believe the two styles can compliment each other unlike that of Buderus & Diskin...

You're right. I seem to agree with most of what you say (unless my old memory is failing me )...saves me the bother of having to contribute much.

Tend to agree with other comments too about poor old McGuire looking out of sorts. He seems to be trying too much to do something off the cuff... Keep Sinfield at SO and McGuire on the bench.(or in the centre...alongside Smith at left centre.....and Keith in the second row. )

: Tue May 05, 2009 2:39 pm  

Lawrie L wrote:

indeed

He needs time to settle in and the injury he picked up didnt help him. Obviously I wish we had signed him in his prime but he still has the magic touch and it is exciting to see

lawrie, there is nothing to suggest that he is still not in his prime, he would have played in the world cup barring injury!

you hve shown yourself up a little in this thread!

: Tue May 05, 2009 2:50 pm  

The Joker® wrote:

Drop Matt Diskin for the Castleford Tigers match and give the Danny Buderus and Paul McShane combination a go i say, I believe the two styles can compliment each other unlike that of Buderus & Diskin...

you have the same dislike for diskin as i do for buderus!!

: Tue May 05, 2009 2:57 pm  

It was always going to take him time to settle in, it's the same in any job, it takes time to get used to how your new collegues work.

I agree with the earlier poster stating there was a noticable difference when Buderus was on the field, he's simply a cut above Diskin, and he's only going to get better.

: Tue May 05, 2009 4:25 pm  

Craigloiner wrote:

you have the same dislike for diskin as i do for buderus!!

Not true, I rate Diskin but he isn't in the same class as Danny Buderus and we have 1 World Class, 1 Super League Class and 1 Very Promising Hooker in our squad, so we have to try not damage Paul McShanes progress so if he isn't going to play then maybe a Loan could be an option?...

: Tue May 05, 2009 4:29 pm  

Diskin and Buderus are both seventy minute plus number nines. That is where all the 'what now for Diskin?' questions came from after the Buderus' signing was announced last year.

As Buderus reaches match fitness and sharpness it makes less and less sense having Diskin in the seventeen except for the general lack of available forward options.

: Tue May 05, 2009 6:21 pm  

It takes time for an overseas player to settle into a new enviroment both on and off the field. I think Buderus is finally getting there.Might be a while before he gets invited to Sinfields house for his tea though.

: Tue May 05, 2009 6:28 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Diskin and Buderus are both seventy minute plus number nines.

I couldn't agree more, i have a high regard for Diskin when he's bang on form, but he will sadly never be in the same class as Buderus is, so which player is going to get the majority of game time when it comes to the big games when both are fully fit, or are both players going to be in the 17?

Will the player omitted from the starting 13 be a compliment to the side on the bench, or will they be taking a spot better served by an extra prop/second row?

I personally havn't seen enough proof of how the side will be better served with both players in the 17 each week, although i'm not saying that it can't work, i personally believe that we are weaker in the go forward department when we have two nines in the squad

Could we ever envisage the scenario that Bluey could leave one of them out of the 17 entirely in the GF if we made it?

: Tue May 05, 2009 6:33 pm  

The Joker® wrote:

so if he isn't going to play then maybe a Loan could be an option?...

Broughton was loaned to Hull (is he still there?). It hasn't made that much difference to his 1st team experience. Played in a home defeat to Wakefield and hasn't featured since with Hull preferring Graeme Horne on the wing.

I'd look to send McShane to Featherstone (if Powell was willing) for the rest of the season and take Jon Fallon in exchange to have a look at him in SL with Leeds.

: Tue May 05, 2009 7:12 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Broughton was loaned to Hull (is he still there?). It hasn't made that much difference to his 1st team experience. Played in a home defeat to Wakefield and hasn't featured since with Hull preferring Graeme Horne on the wing.

I'd look to send McShane to Featherstone (if Powell was willing) for the rest of the season and take Jon Fallon in exchange to have a look at him in SL with Leeds.

That would be a good idea if it could happen a good Coach who knows how to bring Young lads on, To leave him playing in the Reserve Academy isn't doing much for his career IMO and a Loan out to the Co-operative Championship in a competitive side which also happens to be local would help him out alot...