Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:21 am  

[Gareth] wrote:

I dont get all the fuss about Makinson. he isnt as good, in my opinion, as Charnley, Hall, Carney, Monaghan and if Burgess keeps progressing the way h e is he'll soon be better as well.

Sadly, he may be the 'best of the rest' from SL so if we are to replace both our wingers for 2016 i think we will need at least 1 from the NRL

I await to be shot down by the entire population of St Helens

Makinson won't break from his own half in the same way some of those players may, but he's a better close range finisher than them all (perhaps alongside Ryan Hall).

What is more likely against Australia - lots of line breaks from deep, or needing to finish off in tight spaces?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:43 am  

His defense is also light years ahead of all those wingers mentioned.

Regards

King James

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:58 am  

Tommy would have done anything to play for Wigan at one stage. Now I reckon it would take a king's ransom to wrest him away from a club where he's had great success, and I doubt Wigan will consider he's worth that. Very strongly doubt there's any truth in this rumour at all.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:07 pm  

[Gareth] wrote:

I dont get all the fuss about Makinson. he isnt as good, in my opinion, as Charnley, Hall, Carney, Monaghan and if Burgess keeps progressing the way h e is he'll soon be better as well.

Sadly, he may be the 'best of the rest' from SL so if we are to replace both our wingers for 2016 i think we will need at least 1 from the NRL

I await to be shot down by the entire population of St Helens

Oh look, another Saints player that isn't as good as those at his rivals. It's amazing with all these lower level players that St Helens managed to beat Wigan two of three occasions, beat Leeds home and away, beat everybody in the league at least once, finish top of the table, win the Grand Final, despite losing every single creative player.

I wonder just how they did it.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:44 pm  

SLS wrote:

Oh look, another Saints player that isn't as good as those at his rivals. It's amazing with all these lower level players that St Helens managed to beat Wigan two of three occasions, beat Leeds home and away, beat everybody in the league at least once, finish top of the table, win the Grand Final, despite losing every single creative player.

I wonder just how they did it.

They did it because the pack started to perform and build a platform for one of the best players in Super league in James Roby (and easily the Man of Steel IMO). You don't win games of RL by having the best wingers, but by having the best pack.

Makinson isn't as good a winger as all of those named. His finishing is over rated too and that's because Eddie and Stevo get into a lather about his swallow dive into the corner (that you can see every single week in the NRL). It's just not that special.

That said - he did well at full back in the GF.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:50 pm  

There seems to be a couple of rumours linking us with hudd players (along with the possibility of Taylor going to them on loan) but, if we are actually after a winger, I'd love to see McGilvary (sp) come in. Not sure they would let him go but they do already have Murphy and Broughton as ready made replacements along with a few promising kids.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:03 pm  

The WEP has us down as signing Larne Patrick. They say we've targetted him due to Flowers ban.

I can see a swap deal for Taylor.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:20 pm  

Patrick is a solid player but he's more of a second rower isn't he?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:25 pm  

TheElectricGlidingWarrior wrote:

Patrick is a solid player but he's more of a second rower isn't he?

Played both at points. He's typical of the type of prop Wigan like in that he's mobile. I think he'd improve no end here and is ideally suited to how we play.

He's had some storming games against us in the past.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:37 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

I think he'd improve no end here

Oh, absolutely. One can only imagine the level of inept coaching this prop forward has received at last season's league leaders, under former Bradford, St Helens and GB prop forward Paul Anderson and prior to that under one of the best coaches SL has ever seen with young players, Nathan Brown.

He must have struggled hugely.

Do you chaps actually think before you write or does this 'besottedness' you have with Wigan disable the ability to use your brain ?