Re: Fishing quota : Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:27 pm  

jdrocket wrote:

I think what he said was useful. In his first post that you lampooned him for he gave you honest facts. Telling you to beware on past performances.

I think that's great of him.

You're a Wigan fan, yes?

Stats can mean anything you want them to mean. JRD wanted them to mean that we have picked a poor player. I'll wait and see on that one.

Re: Fishing quota : Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:49 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

:lol:

You're a Wigan fan, yes?

Stats can mean anything you want them to mean. JRD wanted them to mean that we have picked a poor player. I'll wait and see on that one.

I've never been a massive fan of stats. Especially stats for Graham when he plays for 80 mins when compared to props that rotate.

And no i am not a Wigan fan.

The point that both you and I have acknowledged (that you seem to have strayed from) is that he provided you with information you didn't have before. How is that a bad thing?

I bet you could have written all you know about perry on the back of a stamp when he was signed. Surely any new info is great.

Re: Fishing quota : Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:58 pm  

jdrocket wrote:

The point that both you and I have acknowledged (that you seem to have strayed from) is that he provided you with information you didn't have before. How is that a bad thing?

It's not a bad thing. But I'm free to take it with a pinch of salt, as I am doing.

Re: Fishing quota : Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:22 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

It's not a bad thing. But I'm free to take it with a pinch of salt, as I am doing.

I probably would too. As i said i await the season. It will be exciting to see how certain players develop over the season and having a good friends who is a die hard saints fan. I may get a running report of them.

Re: Fishing quota : Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:23 am  

JRD wrote:

I never said Perry is rubbish nor will I, Perry is a good NRL prop and he will be a good player next year. I was just pointing out that he isn't a superstar and is certainly never been one of the top 3 props in the world.

I would suggest, from the little i've seen of perry and the bits that i've read and stats i've seen, that Perry is goign to be like a good version of Ryan Bailey. He won't be busting down many doors with the ball in hand but will add alot of weight and agression to both defence and attack.

Re: Fishing quota : Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:28 am  

jdrocket wrote:

I've never been a massive fan of stats. Especially stats for Graham when he plays for 80 mins when compared to props that rotate.

Prop is the only position I tend to take notice of stats for, looking at yards made, offloads etc. What I've tended to notice is that no of tackles tends to be the best marker for how many minutes a prop is playing.

Its a bit of a myth, Graham doing 80 minutes.

Re: Fishing quota : Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:28 pm  

An interesting development - Leeds have just signed Ben Cross, Perry's adversary in two separate punch ups this season.

This should make the Leeds fixture rather spicy for Josh, with Peacock and Cross in their front row. And, let's face it, he's bound to end up scrapping with Ryan Bailey as well.

Re: Fishing quota : Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:40 pm  

Dux wrote:

An interesting development - Leeds have just signed Ben Cross, Perry's adversary in two separate punch ups this season.

This should make the Leeds fixture rather spicy for Josh, with Peacock and Cross in their front row. And, let's face it, he's bound to end up scrapping with Ryan Bailey as well.

yep and LMS and Jammer cower away from the rough stuff too

Re: Fishing quota : Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:28 pm  

Dux wrote:

An interesting development - Leeds have just signed Ben Cross, Perry's adversary in two separate punch ups this season.

AmI the only one who thinks that's a strange move for Leeds, given they've already got 4 senoir props?

Re: Fishing quota : Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:33 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

AmI the only one who thinks that's a strange move for Leeds, given they've already got 4 senoir props?

Peacock - 33 at the start of 2011
Leuluai - 33 by the start of 2011
Cross - 32 at the start of 2011
Bailey - 27
Burgess - 24

Old frontrow that.