Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Mon Aug 07, 2023 10:39 am  

ratticusfinch wrote:

Powell basically replaced Mulhern with Dudson. There are quite a few other of his recruitment calamities that Mr Burgess is going to have to deal with. I hope we haven't told him about the Clark/Dwyer thing.

I was thinking that when Mulhern got MOM yesterday. He played decent for Wire and Powell says "he wanted to keep him" - well why didn't we? Another crap decision.

Dudson showed how brain dead he is with that "punch" in the final game of last season getting a ban for us before he even pulled on the jersey. Together with his abysmal stats.

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:19 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

I was thinking that when Mulhern got MOM yesterday. He played decent for Wire and Powell says "he wanted to keep him" - well why didn't we? Another crap decision.

Dudson showed how brain dead he is with that "punch" in the final game of last season getting a ban for us before he even pulled on the jersey. Together with his abysmal stats.

We have enough forwards available now that he should not even be in the 21 for the Leeds game.

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 6:35 am  

With Burgess and Long now joining the Warrington circus , don’t you think you’re a bit overloaded with clowns ? You definitely need some highly skilled performers to balance things out

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 6:46 am  

ratticusfinch wrote:

Powell basically replaced Mulhern with Dudson. There are quite a few other of his recruitment calamities that Mr Burgess is going to have to deal with. I hope we haven't told him about the Clark/Dwyer thing.

Not so much a calamity.
Wire had the nrl sniffing about Walker.
Walker is our future and something has to go.
I don’t really have a problem losing Clark for Walker, I would the other way.
Clark is better, but years are very much numbered.

I would wager very heavily, if Saints had Walker in their ranks, they would not be signing Clark.

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 8:07 am  

Brick with eyes wrote:

don’t you think you’re a bit overloaded with clowns ?

Nah - plenty of room for you - come on down...

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:10 am  

It is delicious to imagine how Burgess would deal with Dudson's 3 drives and 20 meter performance.

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:12 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

Not so much a calamity.
Wire had the nrl sniffing about Walker.
Walker is our future and something has to go.
I don’t really have a problem losing Clark for Walker, I would the other way.
Clark is better, but years are very much numbered.

I would wager very heavily, if Saints had Walker in their ranks, they would not be signing Clark.

Nrl sniffing around walker?? That's a bit far fetched even by your standards RD!

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 10:52 am  

Moe syslak wrote:

Nrl sniffing around walker?? That's a bit far fetched even by your standards RD!

He is however, one of the few decent hookers coming through the system. And the current England choice. I’d be gutted if we’d lost him to be developed at Saints, in order to keep a player who is very good but ageing, on a 3 year contract.

Hopefully he’ll flourish under Burgess, and be allowed to play to his strengths behind a decent pack.

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:19 am  

Moe syslak wrote:

Nrl sniffing around walker?? That's a bit far fetched even by your standards RD!

I’d be surprised too, though the point stands. If we had kept Clark and allowed Walker to leave, it would be the opposite to what most want to happen, opportunities given to younger players. I don’t think keeping both was a realistic option, they both wanted to be first choice 9.

I don’t believe Saints would have signed Clark if they had Walker either.

Re: Kasiano and Dudson : Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:32 am  

Wires71 wrote:

It is delicious to imagine how Burgess would deal with Dudson's 3 drives and 20 meter performance.

Send him out on loan to Widnes I hope.