: Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:37 pm  

bUsTiNyAbALLs wrote:

Varkulis needs to play consistently in his preferred position before we can judge him i think.

Where would you like to see Varks play? For us, he played his best football when he was transferred to the 2nd row at the start of last season. He used to have just average performances in the centre, with occaisional stand out game, but this was turned around when he went into the 2nd row.

: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:49 pm  

griffax wrote:

Where would you like to see Varks play? For us, he played his best football when he was transferred to the 2nd row at the start of last season. He used to have just average performances in the centre, with occaisional stand out game, but this was turned around when he went into the 2nd row.

Doesnt do enough damage hitting the lines when hes in the second row. Crash ball centre maybe he has a chance of breaking the line. Showed great pace for a big guy against bately scoring the try he did.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:37 am  

Tyrer's defence is absolute gash, just as bad as Hartley's but they are both they good attacking players although Hartley is far too injury prone. I would still have a fit Tim Hartley over Ste Tyrer though.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:29 am  

-VM- wrote:

Hartley is awful, Toa when fit is our best centre so it would be silly to get rid of him. Hartley is the rumour i heard.

Honestly, who is going to take him ?

Only other option is that the injury is worse than expected and he is being paid up although again this counts on the cap I think.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:44 am  

I don't think we would miss Hartley although he did bag some good trys last year...
People talk about his goal kicking but to be honest even that can be shaky. If it's on then he is good, but if it is off he misses even relatively simple kicks.
I'm not sure how sound these rumours are. It looks like someone asked a question and then that was whipped up into a frenzy on the other board with names just being added into the pot.

We know we need one or two players so maybe this is just people putting two and two together and coming up with 5..

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:46 am  

widneslardboy wrote:

Honestly, who is going to take him ?

Only other option is that the injury is worse than expected and he is being paid up although again this counts on the cap I think.

Not if you de-register the player a la Gary Hulse 2004ish..

O'Connor is already ploughing a fortune into the club at the moment so how happy he would be to take this option is anyone's guess.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:55 am  

I'd have to disagree about Hartley. Up until his injury last year I thought he was playing quite well at centre. I think it was something like 7 tries in his first 12 games. Not a bad return and he set his winger up for a few tries aswell.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:51 am  

Alex J wrote:

I'd have to disagree about Hartley. Up until his injury last year I thought he was playing quite well at centre. I think it was something like 7 tries in his first 12 games. Not a bad return and he set his winger up for a few tries aswell.

I agree, he is a talented player, just a shame about his injurys at the moment we can't afford to have talented players missing so many games and taking up a spot under the salary cap when we really need to add to the pack, SOc is a no nonsense businessman as we have already seen

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:45 am  

Would love to see Tyrer or Nanyn back in the centres. Class players at this level.

: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:41 am  

you could get rid of doran and hartley.

for the size of him i havent really seen him have a good game well at leaset the 2 games against fax anyway he didnt have good games he might be a good option to get rid of to open some space on the roster.

i expected hartley to do ok with you. when he was at fax he never had the best squad around him in previous seasons i thought he would become a good player with you but sounds like he has never really hit the hights still there will be someone in the division that would take him if he was fit.