Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:11 pm  

Not a poll as I can't be arsed to make an entry for every squad player, just name em and give us your reasons why. Let's say your top three?

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:51 pm  

As an outsider most of them are already from SL so not many new faces.

So I would say Anthony Watts and Magraff Leuluai are the ones I don't know.

In terms of who I'm interested to see how they will go in a new team, Briscoe and Clarke I think are the strongest SL performers in the squad.

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:36 pm  

Reckon the 3 most outstanding players for us this season will be Watts , Cahill and Ah Van. I suspect not many will agree with my third choice but we shall see.
Towards the end of the season i think young jack owens will start to make his mark.

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:47 pm  

Watts,Hanbury and Mullaley for me.Think Craven could do well and Cahill.

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:08 pm  

Watts and Hanbury together,I think they will be important for us this season.

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:06 pm  

Watts & Mullally

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:14 pm  

Panthro

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:02 am  

Watts and Hanbury are both very good players who will probably the two most aggressive half-backs in defence you'll see in SL this season.

1 - Watts
2 - Hanbury
3 - Craven - I hope he gets game time.

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:01 pm  

richardviking wrote:

Watts and Hanbury are both very good players who will probably the two most aggressive half-backs in defence you'll see in SL this season.

1 - Watts
2 - Hanbury
3 - Craven - I hope he gets game time.

Rhys Hanbury is an excellent signing, plenty of potency in attack but for the past two seasons his defence out wide has some what let him down. I have seen Rhys standing with his hands on his hips looking at a try being scored out on the wing too many times. Rhys can be a tad lazy in defence if the scoreline is against him.

Re: Which Widnes player are you looking forward to seeing? : Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:38 pm  

richardviking wrote:

Watts and Hanbury are both very good players who will probably the two most aggressive half-backs in defence you'll see in SL this season.

1 - Watts
2 - Hanbury
3 - Craven - I hope he gets game time.

If Watts hunts down opposition half backs they way he went after Myler on boxing day he will certainly make his mark on SL early doors and if the rest of the team can follow suit we could get some good starts in games. Obviously we wait and see how he goes for a full 80 but I'm not too concerned over that.

Agree with Craven, really hope he gets a decent amount of game time and going off friendlies and also being first choice last season (Ok at FB) fingers crossed he will as the lad has fantastic natural ability and is a good support player too.

I'm looking forward to seeing Davies and Kavanagh this season. Both really talented and hard working young forwards who if they keep developing could feature on the international stage sooner rather than late IMO.

I'd also go for Ah Van too I must admit! Yes he can be a bit dozy at times (though boxing day defence was good IMO and took all his bombs too) but he is still relatively young, has a full SL season under his belt and if we can use his size (and surprising pace for his size) in that right areas he could cause a lot of damage.