Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue May 31, 2016 9:47 pm  

Caught sight of the Observer back page which says we are now favourites to sign Leuluai.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue May 31, 2016 10:01 pm  

Since the rumours first started Timkins has come back in and Williams has hit form which has in turn helped Matty Smith and Sam Powell.

I now don't see the sense in signing him when there's clearly gaps elsewhere. He was outstanding for us but they can't let sentiment get in the way of building a well balanced squad. We need a new winger and a tough prop and if there's enough money a good player to kick goals.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:28 am  

Would anyone take Josh Griffin at Salford? Tough, young, fast(?), centre/wing who can kick goals. He's out of contract at the end of the year but heard he might be signing for Saints. I think he'd do a good job for us.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:05 am  

Wigg'n wrote:

Would anyone take Josh Griffin at Salford? Tough, young, fast(?), centre/wing who can kick goals. He's out of contract at the end of the year but heard he might be signing for Saints. I think he'd do a good job for us.

No thanks, not as good as our current centres and I'd hope we would be going for a an NRL player to replace Charney assuming we can't bag McGillvary or Solomona, who I gather are both under contract. Griffin's goal kicking isn't great either, similar percentage to Smith, perhaps slightly worse IIRC

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Jun 01, 2016 12:13 pm  

Smith is kicking fine at the moment, and as I've argued before, his career figures are as good as so called "good" kickers like Cam Smith. Unless you're getting a Thurston or a Croker (and neither seems particularly likely), the difference between kickers is pretty marginal.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Jun 01, 2016 12:20 pm  

moto748 wrote:

Smith is kicking fine at the moment, and as I've argued before, his career figures are as good as so called "good" kickers like Cam Smith. Unless you're getting a Thurston or a Croker (and neither seems particularly likely), the difference between kickers is pretty marginal.

Helps if the Kickers team can score tries up the middle of the park.

I imagine that we have been mostly out wide over the last few years

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:43 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

No thanks, not as good as our current centres and I'd hope we would be going for a an NRL player to replace Charney assuming we can't bag McGillvary or Solomona, who I gather are both under contract. Griffin's goal kicking isn't great either, similar percentage to Smith, perhaps slightly worse IIRC

Seems he's signed for Hull FC anyway! How wrong I was.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:50 am  

Observer saying as well as us being favourites for Leuluai that Kris Rads is currently in Australia to sign up a replacement for Charnley.

Joe Burgess hopefully (I notice he's not in the team again for the Roosters this weekend).

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Jun 02, 2016 12:20 pm  

The last time I saw Joe play for the Roosters he had a complete, mare; dropping balls, defensively out of position...

I suppose it's a bit of a vicious circle confidence-wise, he was good under the high ball at Wigan.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Jun 02, 2016 1:39 pm  

moto748 wrote:

The last time I saw Joe play for the Roosters he had a complete, mare; dropping balls, defensively out of position...

I suppose it's a bit of a vicious circle confidence-wise, he was good under the high ball at Wigan.

I thought Joe's occasional howlers could be forgiven at Wigan as a trade-off for those spectacular long-range tries he kept scoring. I'd imagine in Aus they are less tolerant of such errors because they have so many fast, young wingers queuing up for the shirt.

For his sake, I kind of hope he makes it over there, but then I'd like to see him come home sooner than later.