Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:20 pm  

shows passion and has provided some quality moments but cant pass for toffee and nowhere need good enough for what we need.

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Wed Jul 20, 2022 6:01 pm  

tad rhino wrote:

shows passion and has provided some quality moments but cant pass for toffee and nowhere need good enough for what we need.

Certainly not a good passer but jesus when were really struggling he was our only attacking threat , good luck Brad you will make someone a great number 2 hooker and i won't be suprised when you come back to haunt us . At the moment all we have got is a make weight out of position player (who admittedley can tackle
) and a hyped up kid who has proven nothing yet to take over

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:07 pm  

By having a 9 who can get better service to the halves you get better all round attacking threat from the back line rather than the one man get out of jail stuff Dwyer does. That's the point. Hes both been the only 'attacking threat' at times and also a large cause of that.

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:13 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

Certainly not a good passer but jesus when were really struggling he was our only attacking threat , good luck Brad you will make someone a great number 2 hooker and i won't be suprised when you come back to haunt us . At the moment all we have got is a make weight out of position player (who admittedley can tackle
) and a hyped up kid who has proven nothing yet to take over

Hard to disagree. And worryingly again last week was our main / only attacking threat. He’s a dangerous impact sub with heavily ingrained headless chickenitis and inconsistent passing. He’s scored plenty of tries and changed plenty of games. We have had a lot of players in the last 5 years who have made much less impact. He’s made a fair bit happen behind a fairly poor pack and endless changing halves. Overall think it’s right he’s going but we’ve had a lot worse.

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:30 am  

Smith has spoken about a team first mentality in almost every interview he has done. He's even reluctant to pick out players who stood out to him in post-game pressers because he doesn't appear to want to hype any individuals.

Dwyer is the ultimate individual, which is why he gets so many tries from dummy half. Follows his instincts in attack ignoring other players, and poor distribution. I think it's just a huge clash of styles an philosophies.

Tbf to Brad, he seems a good bloke, and has worked hard for the team. Agar seemed to love him, and always made him run up defense to put pressure on last tackle plays. Again though, it's not how Smith seems to operate.

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:29 am  

There isn’t many ‘must keeps’ in our team. And Brad certainly isn’t one of those …..

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Thu Jul 21, 2022 9:29 am  

He had pretty much signed for Wakey for this year until Leeming got injured.

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:09 am  

batleyrhino wrote:

Expected wasn't it. This means we have another approx £80k to play with on the SC. There's tonnes of space free on the cap for next year, we really ought to be signing some much better players.

When you start recruiting in October your options are really limited as we have seen in recent seasons

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Thu Jul 21, 2022 3:26 pm  

That's always been a massive failure point for GH I think.

Re: 2023 OUT | Brad Dwyer - Released : Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:18 am  

Thought he was excellent off the bench last night. Played with a point to prove. We'll miss him imo as an impact player but we can't really keep him and improve the front row when we've got Leeming Johnson and Oconnor