Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 7:58 am  

Boss Hog wrote:

King is a "Home Grown" Marquee Player and hence only costs £50K on the Salary Cap.

Yes so picking some numbers out of the air, if Vaughan was on £200k he would count as £150k on our cap, so a saving of £50k. If King was on £150k he would count as £50k on our cap, so a saving of £100k.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:29 am  

Thewlis i'm happy with,he has great hands, good engine, lots of speed etc. He hasn't shined because Tai is more of a defensive centre than a strike centre. If he was playing outside of jake Wardle, Tim Lafai, Hiku etc He'd be well further up the try charts, I'm happy with him.
Musgrove has played bog standard low minutes this year, I know Burgess rates him higher than his actual displays though, so this will keep Max Wood from playing more games than him. Wood has a much better engine, better skills and a slightly better impact than him......but Musgrove gets the nod every week over him, bit of unjust favouritism there i think.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:43 am  

Alffi_7 wrote:

Yes so picking some numbers out of the air, if Vaughan was on £200k he would count as £150k on our cap, so a saving of £50k. If King was on £150k he would count as £50k on our cap, so a saving of £100k.

The rule that was introduced in 2024 with the allowance for a 3rd Marquee Player specified that the player had to be Federation trained, so Vaughan wouldn`t have qualified to be used in that role.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 11:31 am  

Wires71 wrote:

Tai has just 2 try assists in 18 games. That's nowhere near good enough for a centre for a team that wants to win a GF.
Wrench has 4 in 9 games.

In fact we only have 9 assists across both centres.

You would wonder why Tai has had so any games if you looked at his attacking/skills & stats but to balance things up we ought to mention that he does flatten a few & at times it provides a great lift for the side. Not many run through Tai & most come of worse. Big Sam obviously puts defence high up on his priorities when picking a team.
We also seem very obsessed with using our backs to carry the ball up, presumably to rest our forwards for defensive work, and he's pretty good at this too when it is very very tough.
Lindop, obviously, will be a better all round centre in time.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:00 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

The rule that was introduced in 2024 with the allowance for a 3rd Marquee Player specified that the player had to be Federation trained, so Vaughan wouldn`t have qualified to be used in that role.

I thought as we had Williams on Marquee as Fed trained we could have 2x overseas marquees if we wanted?

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:52 pm  

Alffi_7 wrote:

I thought as we had Williams on Marquee as Fed trained we could have 2x overseas marquees if we wanted?

Yes we could have 2 Overseas Marquees, but they count more on the Salary Cap.

A home grown Marquee only counts for £50K on the Cap.

Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 6:05 pm  

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... s-30180365

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Re: Recruitment, rumours and links : Fri Oct 18, 2024 8:40 pm  

Smiffy27 wrote:

You would wonder why Tai has had so any games if you looked at his attacking/skills & stats but to balance things up we ought to mention that he does flatten a few & at times it provides a great lift for the side. Not many run through Tai & most come of worse. Big Sam obviously puts defence high up on his priorities when picking a team.
We also seem very obsessed with using our backs to carry the ball up, presumably to rest our forwards for defensive work, and he's pretty good at this too when it is very very tough.
Lindop, obviously, will be a better all round centre in time.

We have no alternative. Ratchford, Wrench injured and Lindop is being eased in as he is developing.

You are right Tai offers a lot in defence and in exit carries but not a lot with the ball.