The shape of next years team : Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:59 pm  

Red = New Signing Needed
Black = Existing squad member retained
Blue = Home grown talent




Full Back

Scott Yates
New Signing

Wing

Paddy Flynn
Dean Gaskell

Centre

Toa Kohe Love
James Ford
New Signing

Half Back

James Webster
Anthony Thackery
Danny Hulme

Prop

Jim Gannon
Ben Kavanagh
Steve Pickersgill
Dave Houghton
Anthony Mullally
New Signing

Hooker

Mark Smith
New Signing

Second Row

Lee Doran
Richard Varkulis
Shayne Grady
Josh Simm
New Signing

Loose Forward

New Signing

Utility Player

New Signing



I make that 7 home grown players ready for Super dooper league, I also make it that we need 7 new signings on board to get the correct balance of the team. We could be short on wingers but Ford can player there if needed as can Yates.

Anyone got any other ideas?

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:44 pm  

Has Ostick left/leaving?

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:44 pm  

what toa kohe injury has got a new deal

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:09 pm  

YOU have far far too much time on your hands VM, your husband must be fuming at the amount of time you put drivell on here

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:09 pm  

OSTICK... get rid useless, heard a rumour leeds were interested. WHY!

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:23 pm  

West Banker wrote:

YOU have far far too much time on your hands VM, your husband must be fuming at the amount of time you put drivell on here

Hows about STFU and take a dive of runcorn bridge.

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:17 pm  

I think next years' Widnes team should be phallic shaped.

So no changes needed then.

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:51 pm  

West Banker wrote:

YOU have far far too much time on your hands VM, your husband must be fuming at the amount of time you put drivell on here

Is your husband fuming at your pointless posting?

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:18 pm  

The new signings would have to be pretty good. As VM has said, it would leaves us very short for backs - just 5 players contracted at the minute for 5 places. Also the pack would need to strengthed beyond all recognition. At times this season we've been outmuscled by Whitehaven, Barrow, Halifax, Sheffield and Featherstone. Pickersgill should be a massive help, but there's no way in a million years that Simm and Grady can step up and fill the gap left by Fletch and Morrison. IMO Grady should stay in the centres.

If I have it right, from the squad we had at the start of the year, the following have either left already or are leaving:

John Duffy
Sam Thompson
Gavin Dodd
Michael Ostick
Iain Morrison
Brett Robinson
Lee Paterson
Loz Wildbore
Stephen Bannister
Danny Mills
Tim Hartley
Richard Fletcher

Also we had Grayshon for a long time as well

So I make that 13 players down (not mention Penny and Hall) - currently we have 2 new ones in Ford and Pickersgill, IMO we have a long way to go before we have a got a squad that can compete. As harsh as it might be, IMO we have no homegrown player who can come in and take the place of an experienced player. Fletcher, Grayshon, Morrison, Ostick, Dodd and Duffy have all been pretty decent for us and some of those are amongst the top players in the division. I think Mullally is a future star if he progresses, but Flynn aside, no one has really come through and made the shirt their own.

: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:23 pm  

who has fletcher signed for ?