Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:31 pm  

vikingminer wrote:

4 widnes u/18's just been selected for upcoming england games against wales and france.....top quality youth set up seems to be working nat dont ya think

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:39 pm  

Slightly confused as to what this is then... http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/en ... 2011-youth Different age bracket? Just seen it does say under 16's on it. (though we didn't lose a game at that level did we???).

Slightly confused as to what this is then... http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/en ... 2011-youth Different age bracket? Just seen it does say under 16's on it. (though we didn't lose a game at that level did we???).

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:27 pm  

I just came here to post this. DAMN.

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:29 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

You should be 100% confident in your bid, especially after Wakefield's bad news on Tuesday. Surely they are dead in the water now as far as SL in 2012 goes?
Just be careful though and don't get over condfident, it's the RFL you are dealing with.

I don't think it matters to us who goes down, one was always going to and we're on the up. Obviously, we'd all have prepared the process to be fairer and more equitable, but meh. We've been cheated before now it's somebody elses turn. No one gave two hoots when we went down.

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:37 pm  

J20 wrote: Slightly confused as to what this is then... http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/en ... 2011-youth Different age bracket? Just seen it does say under 16's on it. (though we didn't lose a game at that level did we???). Yeah you are right. The one you have attached is the Youth Squad so lads who are going to be playing U 15's and U16's this coming season. We had Gilmore and Lewis Whitty selected last year and Jon Rigby who we later signed played but as a Warrington player. Jack Owens missed out on selection last year but rightly has made it into the Academy side this year after some great performances stepping up to 18's. I think im right in saying that we didnt have anybody selected at this age group at the start of last season although there where changes to the squad that was announced at the start of the season to that which took on the Aussie schoolboys. Good luck to them all. Gilmore and Alex Brown get some decent coverage already but it's nice to see Declan Hulme in there after having a great year in the centres. Still think there are some that can count themselves unlucky not to be included and im sure if a few more of the 16's had stepped up to get games at 18's they would have been up there for selection. Still, great for the lads and the club as a whole especially working within the restrictions that the Championship provides. I dont think we will see Nat now then. She couldnt have timed her previous posts any better really for this announcement. Fax are a good club with some good fans but this is one area of our club that we have developed further and (we where always the only one to run anything anyway) you would be hard pushed to find fault with. Good luck to them with getting their own strucutres back up and running and I can see that there is some good work going on with regards to that and I hope they get the funding sorted for that one. Always makes them look a bit shabby IMO when they dont run anything and you have CC1 clubs running systems that are superior on paper.

J20 wrote: Slightly confused as to what this is then... http://www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/en ... 2011-youth Different age bracket? Just seen it does say under 16's on it. (though we didn't lose a game at that level did we???). Yeah you are right. The one you have attached is the Youth Squad so lads who are going to be playing U 15's and U16's this coming season. We had Gilmore and Lewis Whitty selected last year and Jon Rigby who we later signed played but as a Warrington player. Jack Owens missed out on selection last year but rightly has made it into the Academy side this year after some great performances stepping up to 18's. I think im right in saying that we didnt have anybody selected at this age group at the start of last season although there where changes to the squad that was announced at the start of the season to that which took on the Aussie schoolboys. Good luck to them all. Gilmore and Alex Brown get some decent coverage already but it's nice to see Declan Hulme in there after having a great year in the centres. Still think there are some that can count themselves unlucky not to be included and im sure if a few more of the 16's had stepped up to get games at 18's they would have been up there for selection. Still, great for the lads and the club as a whole especially working within the restrictions that the Championship provides. I dont think we will see Nat now then. She couldnt have timed her previous posts any better really for this announcement. Fax are a good club with some good fans but this is one area of our club that we have developed further and (we where always the only one to run anything anyway) you would be hard pushed to find fault with. Good luck to them with getting their own strucutres back up and running and I can see that there is some good work going on with regards to that and I hope they get the funding sorted for that one. Always makes them look a bit shabby IMO when they dont run anything and you have CC1 clubs running systems that are superior on paper.

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:00 pm  

Where's Nat gone?

[Nat (Rugby_Aholic)]

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:12 pm  

Still here, unlike J20 and Vikingman I dont spend all my time on other's forums!

Congrats on the selections, I hope they can go on and be successful.

I think Steve O'Conner is slightly contradicting himself though. One the one hand he is saying Widnes can dominate SL, however he only hopes to have four or five international standard England players. If he does want to dominate SL then he will have to go out and buy Aussies\Kiwis to make up the rest of this dominant squad he is talking about.

P.S. Nat is short for Nathaniel, im a bloke!

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:24 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

Still here, unlike J20 and Vikingman I dont spend all my time on other's forums!

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

Congrats on the selections, I hope they can go on and be successful.

Thank you very much

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

I think Steve O'Conner is slightly contradicting himself though. One the one hand he is saying Widnes can dominate SL, however he only hopes to have four or five international standard England players. If he does want to dominate SL then he will have to go out and buy Aussies\Kiwis to make up the rest of this dominant squad he is talking about.

Why is it? Wigan had 4 players in this 4 nations squad (6 if add Brown & Robinson). Also we are ttalking two different time scales, he wants 4 Widnesians in the 2013 WC squad, that is only the 2nd season of our potential return, the dominate RL desire is a long term progress, he has never said I want to be SL Champs within 2 years etc etc.

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

P.S. Nat is short for Nathaniel, im a bloke!

Thanks, for clearning that up.

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:26 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

Still here, unlike J20 and Vikingman I dont spend all my time on other's forums!

Congrats on the selections, I hope they can go on and be successful.

I think Steve O'Conner is slightly contradicting himself though. One the one hand he is saying Widnes can dominate SL, however he only hopes to have four or five international standard England players. If he does want to dominate SL then he will have to go out and buy Aussies\Kiwis to make up the rest of this dominant squad he is talking about.

P.S. Nat is short for Nathaniel, im a bloke!

tart

Re: Widnes set to dominate says big boss : Fri Dec 17, 2010 3:43 pm  

Nat (Rugby_Aholic) wrote:

Still here, unlike J20 and Vikingman I dont spend all my time on other's forums!

Congrats on the selections, I hope they can go on and be successful.

I think Steve O'Conner is slightly contradicting himself though. One the one hand he is saying Widnes can dominate SL, however he only hopes to have four or five international standard England players. If he does want to dominate SL then he will have to go out and buy Aussies\Kiwis to make up the rest of this dominant squad he is talking about.

P.S. Nat is short for Nathaniel, im a bloke!

must be all the bitchin your doing making us think otherwise