Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:22 pm  

I am not worried, most of our players are not going to be going to Super Legaue anytime soon. and now Widnes are gone, is there anywhere better to be in the Championship??

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:44 pm  

Starbug wrote:

Then they sign for the mutants , and become crap again

Or for you for the big bucks eh

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:46 am  

J20 wrote:

Or for you for the big bucks eh

No big bucks off us unless you mean all that win bonus money ours get when they play you

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:22 am  

Said the same to my dad on Thursday. Tangi Ropati was awesome for Sheffield and one of very few of their players i would have liked to have seen in a Fax shirt. Signs for Widnes and the times i have seen him this season he hasnt been good at all. I think Cullen does a great job of coaching any skill out of players that they may have by the looks of it. Tangi, if you want fixing we may be in need of a centre or two next season if you fancy it.

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:38 am  

Ropati's only real issue is that he often goes flying off out the line, which is great when he smashes someone or gets an intercept (like against Hull FC where he was MOM for us) but a lot this year especially early on it led to a few soft tries going in when we'd been defending well. Probably same at Sheffield but stood out less, still effective in attack.

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:25 am  

If i was the BOD i would be getting Penky, Aizue, White and Worrincy signed up if they are not going to SL next year. Most of the others can be sorted out but these 4 are the difference in our team, Nash to when he has his game head on.

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:08 am  

Faxhali wrote:

If i was the BOD i would be getting Penky, Aizue, White and Worrincy signed up if they are not going to SL next year. Most of the others can be sorted out but these 4 are the difference in our team, Nash to when he has his game head on.

Yes to all of those but not Nash, too erratic.
get Jim gannon back as well as while I thought he was past it at the beginning of the season he has been revived and has one more season in him, leads by example and has sorted out his discipline.
Miles Greenwood is Mr Consistency we need him too.
Others need to be looked at but its up to the new coach as he shoud know who he does and does not want.
Like others are saying where are players going to go if not staying at Fax as Leigh ar skint we hear and Fev have their team sorted mostly the rest have no money so nobody really, best stick with us lads.

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:43 pm  

Leigh aren't skint mate. The sudden departure of our benefactor left a hole to be filled but it has been. At the end of the year new Shareholders will be in who make O'Connor look poor, time to focus on Academies to tick all boxes - 5 will move up next year, 3 of whom have played some part this year in Hopkins, Nicholson and Briscoe - Pownall would be the 4th but limited.
Full time academies linked to Leigh college will be running in September, next franchise farce makes us a shoe in.

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:52 pm  

maurice wrote:

Leigh aren't skint mate. The sudden departure of our benefactor left a hole to be filled but it has been. At the end of the year new Shareholders will be in who make O'Connor look poor, time to focus on Academies to tick all boxes - 5 will move up next year, 3 of whom have played some part this year in Hopkins, Nicholson and Briscoe - Pownall would be the 4th but limited.
Full time academies linked to Leigh college will be running in September, next franchise farce makes us a shoe in.

It's a long held view by some that certain SL clubs hold great sway in who gets a license from the Championships (See Bubba's Law). On that basis Wigan will never allow Leigh back into SL.

Re: No players on contract for next season?! : Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:56 pm  

maurice wrote:

At the end of the year new Shareholders will be in who make O'Connor look poor,

Linky?