Re: Jamie Soward : Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:09 am  

& definitely our best player of recent seasons.

Re: Jamie Soward : Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:27 pm  

Full time teams should be able to spend the full cap with a marquee signing. Soward for me. Only way we will ever get near SL.

Re: Jamie Soward : Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:08 am  

Cowgirl Nostalgist wrote:

& definitely our best player of recent seasons.

And by a country mile!

Re: Jamie Soward : Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:48 am  

He would certainly have an impact.

Re: Jamie Soward : Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:01 pm  

We all love Soward, but in all seriousness even in the unlikely event of him travelling half way round the planet to play 2nd Grade, can ONE MAN carry a team for an ENTIRE season?

Re: Jamie Soward : Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:15 pm  

Gareth Bale manages it for Wales.

Re: Jamie Soward : Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:53 am  

Cowgirl Nostalgist wrote:

Gareth Bale manages it for Wales.

He used to for Tottenham too!
Brough pretty much manages it for Huddersfield (and Scotland!)

Re: Jamie Soward : Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:43 am  

CrusaderPete wrote:

We all love Soward, but in all seriousness even in the unlikely event of him travelling half way round the planet to play 2nd Grade...

...on a park pitch with the fond memories of a 70-0 thrashing at the hands of Wigan.

Re: Jamie Soward : Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:50 am  

CrusaderPete wrote:

can ONE MAN carry a team for an ENTIRE season?

Rob from Erith wrote:

Brough pretty much manages it for Huddersfield (and Scotland!)

Back in the real world of rugby league.
It's possible for one man to largely carry the team in attack but he still needs the other players to defend. If you want to know what happens when that isn't the case you only need look at London Broncos when we had Craig Gower playing for us and 12 players around him who couldn't tackle for toffee (or in some cases, wouldn't tackle for toffee).

The other risk of course is that you end up like Warrington toward the end of Briers playing days, if you were able to effectively target Briers you completely disrupted the Wire attack. Having a single playmaker makes you very vulnerable.

Re: Jamie Soward : Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:30 am  

http://rugbyleagueweek.com.au/gould-res ... 9635615955 He's staying at Penrith so end of discussion

http://rugbyleagueweek.com.au/gould-res ... 9635615955 He's staying at Penrith so end of discussion