[Bulliac]

Re: James Bentley Dual Reg : Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:17 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Surprising, watching the highlights of Wakey's game, Ryan Shaw was caught out of position on nearly all Wakey's tries.

To be fair, it must be pretty difficult to pick an effective, defensive (and legal) tactics against that Kid - he's one hell of a talent.

Just in case you're wondering, no, I'm not talking abour Ryan Shaw..

[Bulliac]

Re: James Bentley Dual Reg : Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:26 pm  

HamsterChops wrote:

Not surprising about Shaw though. Vastly overrated in my opinion. Good goalkicker, massively average in all other areas.

If I remember, Shaw wasn't even first choice for us when we were in the Championship, so how he pulled the job at KR (who were SL at the time he signed) I just don't know. As you say, good goalkicker after that, not much to say really.

Re: James Bentley Dual Reg : Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:07 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

If I remember, Shaw wasn't even first choice for us when we were in the Championship, so how he pulled the job at KR (who were SL at the time he signed) I just don't know. As you say, good goalkicker after that, not much to say really.

Played 25 out of 33 all but 2 in starting positions. But personally thought Mullaney was first choice FB. With Williams and Uaisele first choice wingers until Caro and Clare arrived later. But he played all but 3 (Centre, Bench, Bench) either starting FB or W and all pretty much in the regular Championship rounds.

When it got to the Super 8's he was dropped completely until the last match against Halifax which shows that even Lowes saw him as a Championship player rather than one to get us to Super League.

Re: James Bentley Dual Reg : Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:00 pm  

What I remember of Shaw's time at Bradford was him having one stormer of a game at fullback and then living off that game for the rest of the season when he did nothing but kick some beauties from the tee. In fairness to that goal kicking, it was important to us on a number of occasions, including rescuing a near loss at Mount Pleasant.

Re: James Bentley Dual Reg : Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:59 am  

[quote="HamsterChops"]Not surprising about Shaw though. Vastly overrated in my opinion. Good goalkicker, massively average in all other areas.[/quote]


Exactly my take on Shaw HC, but I guess Tim Sheens is a better judge of a player than you or I