Keighley (H) : Sun Jun 25, 2023 7:08 pm  

No excuse for this one. Holmes should be back. Maybe Jowitt too.

Not sure if Walker will be available. But if he is where does Gaskell fit in?

Re: Keighley (H) : Sun Jun 25, 2023 7:20 pm  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

No excuse for this one. Holmes should be back. Maybe Jowitt too.

Not sure if Walker will be available. But if he is where does Gaskell fit in?

I’ve not been convinced by Walker. Holmes has outperformed him at FB.
We’ve moved on. He can be backup at HKR.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:32 am  

Hopefully we'll see a response. Although Keighley look a bit in turmoil, they got a good win on Sunday and won't be coming to Odsal to just roll over. Think it will be a battle before we pull away.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Jun 26, 2023 1:40 pm  

Highlander wrote:

I’ve not been convinced by Walker. Holmes has outperformed him at FB.
We’ve moved on. He can be backup at HKR.

Yep, I'm struggling to think of a performance where he looked SL quality. When everyone is fit, he probably doesn't make the 17 on recent form.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Jun 26, 2023 1:58 pm  

Looking forward to the new wingers debut

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:24 pm  

I think Walker is still SL quality, like any player he just needs a run of games. Particularly him after his injury woes.

I know we all think players should stay and play for our club, but I can't help thinking he's been badly advised in this move. He's only young, after all his injury woes, surely it would have been better to just play rugby and then look at SL options at the end of the year rather than going to play as back up to Coote, who then gets injured and then shipped back to us again anyway. Sounds like if Holmes his fit, Walker will be going back to KR. So he's in no man's land when he should be getting minutes under his belt.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:49 pm  

I fully agree, he is suprerleague quality just needs a decent run of games.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Jun 26, 2023 4:08 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

I think Walker is still SL quality, like any player he just needs a run of games. Particularly him after his injury woes.

I know we all think players should stay and play for our club, but I can't help thinking he's been badly advised in this move. He's only young, after all his injury woes, surely it would have been better to just play rugby and then look at SL options at the end of the year rather than going to play as back up to Coote, who then gets injured and then shipped back to us again anyway. Sounds like if Holmes his fit, Walker will be going back to KR. So he's in no man's land when he should be getting minutes under his belt.

Agree with this. Probably thought he was going to get a run of games at KR and that’s turned out not to the be the case. He should have stuck to what he said at the start of the season. Get back to playing regularly then build to an SL return.

Re: Keighley (H) : Mon Jun 26, 2023 10:18 pm  

Well to be honest, my preference is to have Holmes fit and playing fullback. He has been our best option and probably star player so far this year. Walker has shown very little and whilst he might have been or have still have potential to be SL he hasn’t shown that form for us as yet. And he probably isn’t going to get a run of games if he is going back and forth every few weeks.

Re: Keighley (H) : Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:54 pm  

Turn up with the right attitude and we should have too much for them. Keighley seem to have some problems on and off the field but form goes out of the window in a derby and it would be a huge boost for them to turn us over at Odsal.