Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:45 am  

Fantasy I know, but would love JW Hargreaves in our pack, admittedly he'd get penalised but what a leader and warrior- reminds me of Kurt Sorenson, always mongrel and aggressive. If only..........

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:53 am  

Irregular Hoops wrote:

Take it he’s staying now?

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sat Oct 29, 2022 4:23 pm  

Really do like the look of Josh Wong for Fiji. I know we don’t have a quota spot but he’d be a great replacement for Ma’u

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sat Oct 29, 2022 4:55 pm  

RockNRolla wrote:

Really do like the look of Josh Wong for Fiji. I know we don’t have a quota spot but he’d be a great replacement for Ma’u

He's highly rated at the Roosters.

Hopefully we can get a SR sorted before the season starts

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:44 pm  

GrahamBray wrote:

Fantasy I know, but would love JW Hargreaves in our pack, admittedly he'd get penalised but what a leader and warrior- reminds me of Kurt Sorenson, always mongrel and aggressive. If only..........

Agree he’s one of my favourite players
Would love him at fc

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:22 am  

Do agree we need a new winger, neither of our starters are especially quick & both have injury concerns.
Can't see it being another backup type, suspect one of the starters might be going ? Maybe Adam's foot isn't healing well - just speculating.
If bringing a winger in surely it is to start & add pace to the team, wish list again but Ratu would be huge, as would Lewis Murphy ?
Fully agree 2nd row would be a priority over wing but got to trust AP & TS to get it right.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:29 am  

al283 wrote:

Do agree we need a new winger, neither of our starters are especially quick & both have injury concerns.
Can't see it being another backup type, suspect one of the starters might be going ? Maybe Adam's foot isn't healing well - just speculating.
If bringing a winger in surely it is to start & add pace to the team, wish list again but Ratu would be huge, as would Lewis Murphy ?
Fully agree 2nd row would be a priority over wing but got to trust AP & TS to get it right.

Swift, Mitch and Mcintosh are fine as wingers, we have guilty in the past of paying too much cap and non fed places on wingers.

Interesting if you look at the average salary per position, winger is the lowest, I've even seen Manly and Newcastle fans talking about not paying too much money for Garrick and Young, if they ate just going to play in the wing.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:34 am  

al283 wrote:

Do agree we need a new winger, neither of our starters are especially quick & both have injury concerns.
Can't see it being another backup type, suspect one of the starters might be going ? Maybe Adam's foot isn't healing well - just speculating.
If bringing a winger in surely it is to start & add pace to the team, wish list again but Ratu would be huge, as would Lewis Murphy ?
Fully agree 2nd row would be a priority over wing but got to trust AP & TS to get it right.

Swift was back running with his boots on last Thursday. Looked to be moving well.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:51 am  

I agree with Dave, been guilty of tying up big chunks of cap space and quota spots on wingers in the past.

Swift is more than decent, and McIntosh will hopefully kick on. Also happy to see how the younger players develop there, and give them a chance.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Sun Oct 30, 2022 3:15 pm  

al283 wrote:

Do agree we need a new winger, neither of our starters are especially quick & both have injury concerns.
Can't see it being another backup type, suspect one of the starters might be going ? Maybe Adam's foot isn't healing well - just speculating.
If bringing a winger in surely it is to start & add pace to the team, wish list again but Ratu would be huge, as would Lewis Murphy ?
Fully agree 2nd row would be a priority over wing but got to trust AP & TS to get it right.

Just for info Ratu not played for over a year now due to a serious knee injury.
Was going really well for Bristol apart from two sending offs before the injury.