Re: 2017 Squad : Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:53 pm  

Went to see the Wales v Jamaica game tonight. Joseph didn't play for Wales. Peltier came off the bench for Jamaica though. Have to say, he looks like a project. He's a bloody big bloke and he's clearly hard to put down. A couple of times there were two defenders hanging off him and he was nowhere near going down. But he does look like he lacks the skill set a bit. If he has an offload game, it didn't show tonight. One thing though, he was more of a handful for the Welsh defenders than I've seen Lauaki be in two years.

Rohan's comments about him needing work but having the potential sounded about right to me.

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:33 am  

Wonder why Joseph didn't play?

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:36 am  

paulwalker71 wrote:

From what I read on another RL forum, you might have the need to generate some cash pretty quickly!

Thats the point, a player exchange is no good but we would be open to a cash offer. Bradford can not do cash though so Salford would be his likely destination if we got desperate.

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:18 am  

Confirmed in T&A that Kurt Haggerty has 'retired' and taken up a coaching position with Toronto

Seems a bit of an odd one to me. Unless there is a long-term injury we don't know about, it seems strange for a 27 year old bloke to 'retire' from playing.

How long into next season before Toronto get a few injuries and - surprise, surprise - Haggerty is suddenly called out of 'retirement'...

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:38 am  

Exactly my thinking regarding Haggerty.
I hope the club have decided to keep his playing registration.

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:52 am  

paulwalker71 wrote:

Confirmed in T&A that Kurt Haggerty has 'retired' and taken up a coaching position with Toronto

Seems a bit of an odd one to me. Unless there is a long-term injury we don't know about, it seems strange for a 27 year old bloke to 'retire' from playing.

How long into next season before Toronto get a few injuries and - surprise, surprise - Haggerty is suddenly called out of 'retirement'...

Definitely going to happen I would have thought, look at the way Jake Emmitt signed for them telling Leigh it was his dream to play in Australia, only to coe back in a month sign for Swinton then on to Toronto, not a big fan of all this bleating Leigh fans have done about Toronto but this definitely looks a similar situation to me as he just signed the 2 year contract with us

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:53 am  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

Thats the point, a player exchange is no good but we would be open to a cash offer. Bradford can not do cash though so Salford would be his likely destination if we got desperate.

We can do cash. Eventually.

Usually just a few days late.

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 10:58 am  

Easy to resolve though, keep his playing registration, however suspect we have just agreed a termination and got him off the wage bill with immediate effect

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 11:00 am  

Should now see if Smith rates Olbison bearing in mind the lack of back rowers we have at the moment

Re: 2017 Squad : Sat Oct 22, 2016 11:59 am  

Bets'y Bulls wrote:

Easy to resolve though, keep his playing registration, however suspect we have just agreed a termination and got him off the wage bill with immediate effect

IIRC we've done that before when Karl Pryce went to union and on his return to RL Wigan paid us to transfer his reg.