Re: Joey's gone! : Wed Mar 04, 2015 8:58 am
markrammond wrote:
It is a mystery what has gone on, that is for sure.
The timeline in published sources appears to show that Joey has wanted to leave since the start of the season; that he needs to return to Australia and heavily hints have been dropped in that Grima or a close family member has a serious problem which they do not want to disclose.
Grima has been involved with the club just over a year and although history will show just one league win in about twenty games he has always been an entirely decent guy trying his best to rebuild the club, just has Tony Rea did, really working to repair the damage done from the levels above him.
If you look at a very well run club like Leigh, they have managed to get their recruitment pretty much perfect by cherry-picking players from their best part-time rivals, getting in for the better SL players released in their Geographical catchment area of Lancashire and Yorkshire with a sprinkling of club developed players also in there.
It is also true they have been building up for for 10 seasons in the same league and have incrementally improved.
Where have we been left?
If we looked at Joey's recruitment and retention he has made some good signings with Brad Dwyer, Rhys Williams and Rhys Lovegrove who are all Super League standard plus of course Mathers and Harrison, whilst Naiqama has been quiet so far and Riley has been unfit. Slyney, Jon Wallace and Dollapi are probably the best players retained altough Wicks, Everett, Macani and Walker all look useful squad men.
Our worst position is in the halves where we have unproven youths and of the two senior players one has a long term injury and one didn't play well pre-season. There's no one of our own with a good kicking game.
Most of the remaining players have not shown they are better than mid-to-bottom end Championship standard.
Moving forward, I would hope the new manager introduces more aggression to the side; more battle-hardened players.
I don't mind Andrew Henderson getting a shot, he's got some winnable games coming up too.
Cheers
Mark
The timeline in published sources appears to show that Joey has wanted to leave since the start of the season; that he needs to return to Australia and heavily hints have been dropped in that Grima or a close family member has a serious problem which they do not want to disclose.
Grima has been involved with the club just over a year and although history will show just one league win in about twenty games he has always been an entirely decent guy trying his best to rebuild the club, just has Tony Rea did, really working to repair the damage done from the levels above him.
If you look at a very well run club like Leigh, they have managed to get their recruitment pretty much perfect by cherry-picking players from their best part-time rivals, getting in for the better SL players released in their Geographical catchment area of Lancashire and Yorkshire with a sprinkling of club developed players also in there.
It is also true they have been building up for for 10 seasons in the same league and have incrementally improved.
Where have we been left?
If we looked at Joey's recruitment and retention he has made some good signings with Brad Dwyer, Rhys Williams and Rhys Lovegrove who are all Super League standard plus of course Mathers and Harrison, whilst Naiqama has been quiet so far and Riley has been unfit. Slyney, Jon Wallace and Dollapi are probably the best players retained altough Wicks, Everett, Macani and Walker all look useful squad men.
Our worst position is in the halves where we have unproven youths and of the two senior players one has a long term injury and one didn't play well pre-season. There's no one of our own with a good kicking game.
Most of the remaining players have not shown they are better than mid-to-bottom end Championship standard.
Moving forward, I would hope the new manager introduces more aggression to the side; more battle-hardened players.
I don't mind Andrew Henderson getting a shot, he's got some winnable games coming up too.
Cheers
Mark
Didn't Leigh go bust 4 or 5 years ago, so not sure about the 10 gradual improvement!