: Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:51 pm  

Penny has pace and balance and the ability to score tries even in the tightest spots, something you either have or you don't, the reason people liken him to offiah. He does seem reasonable in the air (i believe he had a bit of a mare last night under the bomb however) however his one on one tackling is very poor but that is something that can be improved and the lad has only played a handfull of games. Unfortunately for penny, times have changed since offiah's day as (generally) wingers are bigger these days.
He looks like he has the makings of o great 'old fashioned' winger, he'll need to be in a decent side that can protect him to allow him to show off his talents.

: Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:36 pm  

You lot are all jealous!

13 in 12 games says it all.

So what do you want from a winger???

At the moment you have your not too fast but solid, bulked up/good under the high ball type winger (Meli, Tupou etc)

Then theres the speedstars like Penny, White , Gardner etc.

Totally different types of player they all have weaknesses.

: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:20 pm  

2nd Rate Aussie wrote:

You lot are all jealous!

13 in 12 games says it all.

So what do you want from a winger???

At the moment you have your not too fast but solid, bulked up/good under the high ball type winger (Meli, Tupou etc)

Then theres the speedstars like Penny, White , Gardner etc.

Totally different types of player they all have weaknesses.

meli isnt good under the high ball, the blokes a donkey

: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:09 pm  

2nd Rate Aussie wrote:

You lot are all jealous!

13 in 12 games says it all.

So what do you want from a winger???

At the moment you have your not too fast but solid, bulked up/good under the high ball type winger (Meli, Tupou etc)

Then theres the speedstars like Penny, White , Gardner etc.

Totally different types of player they all have weaknesses.

How many has he been responsible for letting in, in those games. I made it 4 last night down to Penny?

He has pace and balance, but otherwise is a rag doll at the moment. He needs a lot of coaching to make him a decent player.

Returning the ball he is rubbish as well, due to his lack of size. He was thrown around like a rag doll last night by Saints backs, and was invariably dragged back for negative yards.

In three years time he may be a world beater, but I suspect he will suffer the fate of Richie Barnett, who was found out then binned.

Worryingly for Penny, Warrington is not the place were he will pick up good habits. The coaching regime there is poor, with few youngsters brought on in recent years.

: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:20 pm  

The Chair Maker wrote:

Worryingly for Penny, Warrington is not the place were he will pick up good habits. The coaching regime there is poor, with few youngsters brought on in recent years.

Yeah he should go to saints as they are the only team in the country who can nurture any talent to its full potential

Saints fans are fast becoming the most loathsome fans in the league and have the same attitude as wigan in the 90's.

We decided after watching 2 very poor CC finals over the last couple of years that if saints get there again next year they'll be 10 of us not going.

: Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:34 pm  

McClennan wrote:

He needs to be exposed so that we can see that he's not another Calderwood.

now come on I know 5 and a half inches is not what you would expect from the old fashioned stereotype but he can certainly do the business with it from what ive heard

: Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:01 am  

sally cinnamon wrote:

now come on I know 5 and a half inches is not what you would expect from the old fashioned stereotype but he can certainly do the business with it from what ive heard

: Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:08 am  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Found wanting? Hardly the first player with a dozen games under there belt to make errors.

I know that. I've not condemned him to be rubbish forever.

Catpisstastic wrote:

so he hasn't played leeds, and he didn't play saints in the cup and do a decent job?

He did but this is the first time that Saints have played towards him and he looked creaky to say the least.

The_Wolfman wrote:

Yeah he should go to saints as they are the only team in the country who can nurture any talent to its full potential

That's not what he said. He said that Cullen isn't good enough as a coach to bring him through to any sort of high standard and I would reckon that there'd be a few Wire fans that would agree with that.

It's not about him joining Saints it's about him getting good coaching.

: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:45 am  

26 pages of utter tripe.

No matter who you are, if he was at your club, you wouldn't be able to get your c-ock out fast enough.

He was at fault for 4 tries on Friday, deary me, no he wasn't that's just a lie.

: Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:50 pm  

The_Wolfman wrote:

Yeah he should go to saints as they are the only team in the country who can nurture any talent to its full potential

Saints fans are fast becoming the most loathsome fans in the league and have the same attitude as wigan in the 90's.

We decided after watching 2 very poor CC finals over the last couple of years that if saints get there again next year they'll be 10 of us not going.

Neither I or the Chair Maker who have both been critical of Cullen's coaching ability here have never said that only at Saints would he do well in fact I was chatting to a Warrington fan after the match on Friday who said very much the same thing.
Think you are showing your Anti Saints bias here as does the comment about not going to the Challenge Cup Final again if Saints are there
Two things to say about this 1) Good it will mean more tickets available for true RL Fans (or even for Saints fans )
and 2 ) does this include IF (a big IF I know ) Warrington manage to get to a Final against Saints ?