Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:55 pm  

Last we have seen of Matty Wilkinson. Has joined Oldham and according to player and Oldham he turned Halifax down. Looks like we are short of money if players are picking Oldham over us. Oldham fighting relegation and we are comfortable in 5th. http://www.totalrl.com/salford-duo-join-oldham-2/

Last we have seen of Matty Wilkinson. Has joined Oldham and according to player and Oldham he turned Halifax down. Looks like we are short of money if players are picking Oldham over us. Oldham fighting relegation and we are comfortable in 5th. http://www.totalrl.com/salford-duo-join-oldham-2/

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 2:14 pm  

Something is obviously very amiss....

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 2:32 pm  

I don't see anything to change what we think we already know about our finances.
On the playing side the lad has made a personnel decision that fits better the short term current circumstances and all the best to him.

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:13 pm  

faxcar wrote:

I don't see anything to change what we think we already know about our finances.
On the playing side the lad has made a personnel decision that fits better the short term current circumstances and all the best to him.

Doesn't get much worse than going securing short term with relegation Fodder rather than a team you have already been with this year. Either totally potless or doesn't like the club/running of it

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:22 pm  

Faxhali wrote:

Doesn't get much worse than going securing short term with relegation Fodder rather than a team you have already been with this year. Either totally potless or doesn't like the club/running of it

There was a feature in courier Friday before last with Wilkinson saying how he was enjoying his spell at Fax and how he wanted to help the club achieve it's top 4 ambition.......then misses Swinton and now this.....

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 4:50 pm  

Faxhali wrote:

Doesn't get much worse than going securing short term with relegation Fodder rather than a team you have already been with this year. Either totally potless or doesn't like the club/running of it

Yep, could be that he see's Fax as going nowhere and lets be honest he's not on his own but we're speculating on how someone is thinking which is just guesswork.
As stated last week BEFORE the Oldham offer he was happy to play at Fax and do his best for us and himself in the process.
Oldham have now come in with an alternative deal which is stated as being better for all parties to the end of the season and Fax have decided not to get into a bidding war at this stage and cut their cloth accordingly.

Bottom line, if it is that he doesn't want to be here, then we don't want him and it's better to know beforehand rather than after as has been the case with some in the past.

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:37 pm  

reckon he wasn't guaranteed first team rugby (with BK close to returning) so why wouldn't you take a contract at Oldham where you're more likely to play week in week out?

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:09 pm  

He may be an Oldham lad? (I don't know and haven't looked)

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:51 pm  

From his own comments it looks like he enjoyed playing with us, but there's a fair chance he lives closer to Oldham than us, and he maybe wants more certainty around playing 1st team rugby. He's just gone 21, and at that age it's probably better to have some degree of certainty to be in the starting line-up... especially if it's closer to home.

Re: Matty Wilkinson : Fri Jun 30, 2017 10:09 am  

Im not quite sure that Marshall has a good eye for a player. We need a bit of pace around the play the ball and this lad had it. We all saw how much better our attack looked with AOB in the team and it was nice for our half backs to have a bit of room.