Re: Rumours thread : Wed Jun 19, 2024 11:01 am  

PopTart wrote:

I don't disagree, but that's where we are aiming.
I'd be happy if we were mid table and in the fight for playoffs with a view to be consistently in the 6 for the following years.
But we are currently in Championship so we don't really know how we'll fair when we get there.

Got to agree with both those sentiments, at the moment we have superior fitness and more strength in depth than any other championship club.
This years pack will be nucleus of next year. is is our current pack as good as the top teams in super league. Personally even with storton and mckmeeken I think we would struggle. Against the bottom teams I m sure we will compete.

As regards ‘we are spending the cap,’ so are a lot of other teams and they have a foundation of players that have been recruited or brought through the junior system. Sadly ours left and our team is going to have 9 non fed trained players only two of which has sl experience - neither of which set the world alight!

Atoni appears to be a totally different player - my opinion on Lino hasn’t really changed.

I look forward to the challenge and the journey but mid table respectability would be amazing

Re: Rumours thread : Wed Jun 19, 2024 11:01 am  

PopTart wrote:

I don't disagree, but that's where we are aiming.
I'd be happy if we were mid table and in the fight for playoffs with a view to be consistently in the 6 for the following years.
But we are currently in Championship so we don't really know how we'll fair when we get there.

Got to agree with both those sentiments, at the moment we have superior fitness and more strength in depth than any other championship club.
This years pack will be nucleus of next year. is is our current pack as good as the top teams in super league. Personally even with storton and mckmeeken I think we would struggle. Against the bottom teams I m sure we will compete.

As regards ‘we are spending the cap,’ so are a lot of other teams and they have a foundation of players that have been recruited or brought through the junior system. Sadly ours left and our team is going to have 9 non fed trained players only two of which has sl experience - neither of which set the world alight!

Atoni appears to be a totally different player - my opinion on Lino hasn’t really changed.

I look forward to the challenge and the journey but mid table respectability would be amazing

Re: Rumours thread : Wed Jun 19, 2024 11:06 am  

I'm holding out for a world class half too. Halves who would make the move do exist in the NRL - but it either takes some major 'persuasion' to make the leap, or they've been told they're not in the long term planning anymore, or they're just unhappy and need to reset. Matt Moylan going to Leigh is a prime example, and there are others - Kyle Flanagan, Luke Keary, Brayden Trindall, Brad Schneider, Chad Townsend, Jackson Hastings - who are gettable for different reasons.

Hampshire is a no from me. He's not at Wigan because he's a top-end player is he, he's there because he'd prefer to be at an SL club on tiny money than drop into the Championship. I've seen various interviews down the years where he just will not accept that he's not a Super League player. He struggles to square up a defensive line, runs his backs out of room, he's a scrappy, slappy sort of tackler and never sticks. He's fast, and he backs up, and occasionally kicks well, but we should be aiming higher than that.

Lam has made it clear he wants to go back to the NRL eventually, and in the meantime I can't see him leaving his Dad to come to Wakey.

For me, the perfect signing would be Hastings, though he seems to be back in favour at the Knights. But if we sold him the vision of Trinity being his team, part of a success story, a big fish in a small pond like his Salford days, and pay him £300k then you never know...

Re: Rumours thread : Fri Jun 21, 2024 7:23 am  

Two players linked with us had pretty poor games last night in a dour clash. Hall and Storton.

Good to see Tanginoa have another mare too. Hilarious when he ran across little Mikey and knocked the ball out of his hand.

Re: Rumours thread : Fri Jun 21, 2024 8:37 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Two players linked with us had pretty poor games last night in a dour clash. Hall and Storton.

Good to see Tanginoa have another mare too. Hilarious when he ran across little Mikey and knocked the ball out of his hand.

Thought Corey hall had a good game tbh. Did a lot of hard work in defence and bringing it out am from deep. Didn’t see any errors or anything either so not sure what made him poor. Storton didn’t have the best game but I’ve seen him play a lot better this season.

Tanginoa, that was a very funny moment I agree. Made me laugh.

Re: Rumours thread : Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:07 am  

To be fair I enjoyed the game but far too many errors by both teams to be a classic ,God help HKR if Lewis goes down for any length of time , he really does pull it out of the bag when needed but can also come up with brain farts at un opportune moments in games . Must say watching our x players I’m more than happy with our squad now and with some added quality here n their we will hold their own against most next season

Re: Rumours thread : Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:08 am  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Thought Corey hall had a good game tbh. Did a lot of hard work in defence and bringing it out am from deep. Didn’t see any errors or anything either so not sure what made him poor. Storton didn’t have the best game but I’ve seen him play a lot better this season.

Tanginoa, that was a very funny moment I agree. Made me laugh.

....Apart from the stroll past him for the try..........

Re: Rumours thread : Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:18 am  

Both Tanganoa and Hall were beaten on the inside resulting in tries

Re: Rumours thread : Fri Jun 21, 2024 2:45 pm  

BarnsleyGull wrote:

....Apart from the stroll past him for the try..........

That’s literally one mistake in 80 minutes and discounting all the positive contributions. He had overall a pretty good game with a lot of positive contributions in attack and defence including last ditch tackle involvement. Very harsh if you branding players as having a poor game after a single bad read or mistake.

That may be all it takes for you to mark a player as having a poor game but I like to consider the performance over the full 80. Was it a poor error - yes. Did he have a poor game - no (and that was the original point I was replying to).

Re: Rumours thread : Fri Jun 21, 2024 10:49 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

That’s literally one mistake in 80 minutes and discounting all the positive contributions. He had overall a pretty good game with a lot of positive contributions in attack and defence including last ditch tackle involvement. Very harsh if you branding players as having a poor game after a single bad read or mistake.

That may be all it takes for you to mark a player as having a poor game but I like to consider the performance over the full 80. Was it a poor error - yes. Did he have a poor game - no (and that was the original point I was replying to).

I think the issue is he consistently makes poor errors in defence.

He carried well and hit some good lines but also dropped some ball.

He’s a luxury player one we really couldn’t accommodate when we were in SL.