Re: Shopping List 2023 : Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:04 pm  

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... ngId%7E%7D Not an FC thing but can't believe this. Doyle was being looked at by SL clubs not that long ago. To lose out to Keighley is a kick in the nuts Feel sorry for the remaining Bulls fans. Odsal is a dump and Woods is an awful owner.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... ngId%7E%7D Not an FC thing but can't believe this. Doyle was being looked at by SL clubs not that long ago. To lose out to Keighley is a kick in the nuts Feel sorry for the remaining Bulls fans. Odsal is a dump and Woods is an awful owner.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:06 pm  

RockNRolla wrote:

I posted last week that the sponsor guy who i know had told me that the club want another half back and a back rower.
Interesting times ahead....

Sure we're looking at back rowers with Ma'u leaving and Savelio's injury record.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Mon Sep 12, 2022 7:10 pm  

Think we've bagged Longstaff according to stuff on twitter

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Mon Sep 12, 2022 7:13 pm  

mwindass wrote:

Think we've bagged Longstaff according to stuff on twitter

Any links to twitter

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Mon Sep 12, 2022 7:24 pm  

https://twitter.com/Jamie_Bate/status/1 ... DLM1w&s=19 Don't knownif he's ITK, but if he's leaving wire I'd imagine he's coming here

https://twitter.com/Jamie_Bate/status/1 ... DLM1w&s=19 Don't knownif he's ITK, but if he's leaving wire I'd imagine he's coming here

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Mon Sep 12, 2022 8:04 pm  

Had a nod and a wink from the guy who told me about Smith that Longstaff has signed.

Watch him sign a 5 year deal at Wire now....

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Mon Sep 12, 2022 8:34 pm  

https://youtu.be/NwTOhlXdZr0 Craig Harrison reckons Smith will have his 'hit list' of players to get rid of this off season. Think it could be an interesting off season

https://youtu.be/NwTOhlXdZr0 Craig Harrison reckons Smith will have his 'hit list' of players to get rid of this off season. Think it could be an interesting off season

[Mild Rover]

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Sep 13, 2022 4:56 am  

mwindass wrote:

https://youtu.be/NwTOhlXdZr0

Craig Harrison reckons Smith will have his 'hit list' of players to get rid of this off season. Think it could be an interesting off season

I watched this last night. Just to mention that they said Smith won 14 of 42 games at Rovers, presumably based on his Wikipedia entry. I’ve seen it on social media a couple of times too. However, those numbers are incorrect. We played 37 SL games in his two full (well, as full as the pandemic allowed) seasons, with 13 wins, plus a win and a loss in the play-offs and whatever happened in the cup. I CBA to check 2019, as I can’t recall if we briefly had an interim coach after Sheens, but Smith won 9 of 20 in SL and the cup before being stood down in 2022. Anyway, Rovers played and won more under him than wiki says, and his win ratio will be better than .333 with us.

Despite my slight obsessiveness with details like that, I have enjoyed watching a few of the SMTM podcasts. Some interesting discussion on the IMG stuff with rumoured criteria for a place in the expected 2 x 10 format seeming to shift over recent months from entirely on field to mostly about infrastructure and ‘contribution to the sport’. Interesting to see, more broadly, Craig and Joe reflecting the different perspectives of SL and Champ clubs, e.g. about how willing or eager champ clubs should be to give fringe SL youngsters a chance on loan.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Sep 13, 2022 10:40 am  

We wont be going after Julien from Catalan's - he has retired

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Tue Sep 13, 2022 10:59 am  

That seems crackers if he's not injured