Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:20 am  

It’s the same salary cap for both Leeds and Wakefield

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:59 am  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

It’s the same salary cap for both Leeds and Wakefield

True but irrelevent if you can't afford to reach it - you do realise I'm being complimetary to Leeds in a back handed kind of way. You can do better.

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:38 pm  

Not quite the same salary cap as even if Wakey spend up to the full cap Leeds spend a fair bit more on Merrin and Hurrel that Wakey can not afford as Marquee players

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Wed Apr 10, 2019 1:33 pm  

He's a rough diamond Welly, just needs polishing.Lots of polishing.Couldnt break into the Widnes team on a regular basis, one of the worst ever teams in SL history.Betts had him one to one coaching.For me he is looking to offload far too early, before contact.You have to try and win the collision first.Massive potential but at 24 you have to wonder if it will ever come to fruition.Just to add he's a lovely bloke, a quietly spoken gentle giant.

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:48 pm  

Professor Yaffle wrote:

He's a rough diamond Welly, just needs polishing.Lots of polishing.Couldnt break into the Widnes team on a regular basis, one of the worst ever teams in SL history.Betts had him one to one coaching.For me he is looking to offload far too early, before contact.You have to try and win the collision first.Massive potential but at 24 you have to wonder if it will ever come to fruition.Just to add he's a lovely bloke, a quietly spoken gentle giant.

He might be 24 but last year was his first in Super League, before that he was playing in the PNG League and Queensland Cup.

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:01 pm  

Hard to judge him on 1 game, but I thought he did ok and would like to see him get a few games before we make a decision on him. The trial period will hopefully give us chance to do that. If he doesn't count on the quota and comes fairly cheap there may be room on next season's cap to accommodate him, if as expected there are a few departures.
Let's see how he goes the next few weeks.

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:55 pm  

I think we need to accept Wellington will make errors but at least offers some kind of impact off the bench which we lack.

Some offloads will work and some wont but he has the ability to change a game and I would rather see that off the bench than Donaldson and JJB who are going to make impact off the bench at all other than some graft.

You would hope Albert and Ava would improve the forward options in the very least.

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:35 am  

He looks he's been put together in the wrong order. Arms and legs everywhere! looking forward to watching him, probably going to be fun and frustrating! Let's hope the split falls more towards fun than it does frustration!

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:50 am  

He's like that cartoon effect with a big dust cloud with arms and legs coming out at all angles.

Re: TRIAL | Wellington Albert : Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:43 pm  

vastman wrote:

True but irrelevent if you can't afford to reach it - you do realise I'm being complimetary to Leeds in a back handed kind of way. You can do better.

Tbf he wouldn’t care if you are being complimentary of Leeds or not, he’s not a Leeds fan.