Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:27 pm  

Yorkshire Warrior wrote:

If this is true I may even subscribe. I didn’t see the point of continuing my subscription to Sky Sport so that they could pour billions into the Premier League.

Ill have to see if its available on my dodgy stick

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Jun 30, 2023 5:15 pm  

[Gareth] wrote:

Looking like Saints are signing Ritson permenantly

He has been terrible whenver i have seen him play. Ritson, Whitley and an over the top Clark. In a season where Wellens HAD to get recruitment right, he seems to be getting it wrong (to me anyway) His recruitment has shades of the Cunningham era. Players vastly inferior to the ones they already have or are preparing to lose. Tough times ahead for Saints.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Jun 30, 2023 8:04 pm  

Pie_Eyter wrote:

He has been terrible whenver i have seen him play. Ritson, Whitley and an over the top Clark. In a season where Wellens HAD to get recruitment right, he seems to be getting it wrong (to me anyway) His recruitment has shades of the Cunningham era. Players vastly inferior to the ones they already have or are preparing to lose. Tough times ahead for Saints.

Ritson I expected more, I thought he’d be like Kevin Penny, a liability at times but also scoring some great long range try’s but he’s just been a bit meh. It is however a salary capped sport and you can’t have stats in every position, Whitley is okay but the big one is Clarke, he was brilliant at Cas and has done well at Warrington but maybe a little underwhelming considering how good he was at Cas, wouldn’t surprise me if he did really well at Saints and I would have taken him over Leeming personally.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Jun 30, 2023 8:48 pm  

CobraCraig wrote:

Ritson I expected more, I thought he’d be like Kevin Penny, a liability at times but also scoring some great long range try’s but he’s just been a bit meh. It is however a salary capped sport and you can’t have stats in every position, Whitley is okay but the big one is Clarke, he was brilliant at Cas and has done well at Warrington but maybe a little underwhelming considering how good he was at Cas, wouldn’t surprise me if he did really well at Saints and I would have taken him over Leeming personally.

Agree re Clarke. He’s had a few tough years but this season and particularly during this dire Wire spell I think he has still looked very dangerous.

I’d be disappointed if we did not go in for him given we were in the market for a 9 even if it was just to bump up his wages at Saints.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Jun 30, 2023 9:54 pm  

NSW wrote:

Did you see his dive when he was trying to charge down Widdop a drop goal last week

I did and he’s been an embarrassment this past few weeks. How is such a big bloke that much of a mard ar*e?! I’m sure him and Walmsley are competing for the heavyweight whinging champion of the world title.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:52 am  

[Gareth] wrote:

Ill have to see if its available on my dodgy stick

I used to have premier sports when they had NRL, footy show. If they can offer more rugby I would cancel sky, sick of funding other sports to get their coverage of SL

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Jul 01, 2023 10:11 am  

Miskis interview at the end of the game with Wigan TV is edited and misses out a question I assume is are you resigning for the club. Strange it was edited and Miski says something along the lines of it’s a great club and that’s the plan right now. Wonder what was cut out or if it’s a bad edit and they did it to cut down on the time of the interview

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Jul 01, 2023 10:27 am  

WWste wrote:

Miskis interview at the end of the game with Wigan TV is edited and misses out a question I assume is are you resigning for the club. Strange it was edited and Miski says something along the lines of it’s a great club and that’s the plan right now. Wonder what was cut out or if it’s a bad edit and they did it to cut down on the time of the interview

Feel a bit bad about saying this as the interviewer is clearly learning on the job but the quality of the interviews is pretty poor on Wigan TV. Formulaic questioning and more edits than Titanic.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:09 am  

jonh wrote:

Agree re Clarke. He’s had a few tough years but this season and particularly during this dire Wire spell I think he has still looked very dangerous.

I’d be disappointed if we did not go in for him given we were in the market for a 9 even if it was just to bump up his wages at Saints.

There are reasons other than playing ability that come into consideration regarding whether we go in for a player or not.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:52 am  

CobraCraig wrote:

Ritson I expected more, I thought he’d be like Kevin Penny, a liability at times but also scoring some great long range try’s but he’s just been a bit meh. It is however a salary capped sport and you can’t have stats in every position, Whitley is okay but the big one is Clarke, he was brilliant at Cas and has done well at Warrington but maybe a little underwhelming considering how good he was at Cas, wouldn’t surprise me if he did really well at Saints and I would have taken him over Leeming personally.

Clarke is a very clever player but he doesn’t have the explosive speed he once had. After saying that, good players adapt as they get older.