Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:38 pm  

Gasnier retiring from ST George, could we get him in possibly????????

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:42 pm  

Next year we are not that well off for front rowers as the list sugggests. A couple of injuries and we could struggle. I don't see the point of spending so much money on developing Davies and then allowing him to go. I'd re-sign him.
Crosby will surely stay.
Can't see either O'Carroll or Pryce staying although Karl has spent the season at Quins. Eamon's future may depend on how he ends the year. Injury free and he may get a one year deal. Get an injury and he could be released.
Coley and Deacon may both retire. With Hoffman leaving then the re-signing of Carmont makes even more sense.
Coley, Deacs and Hoff and very experienced players. Losing three is bad enough but four would almost a quarter of the first 17 departing.
Next season could let us see how valuable our junior develoment has been over the years. More than one or two maybe required for first team duties.

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:20 pm  

bazdev wrote:

Gasnier retiring from ST George, could we get him in possibly????????

Hasn't he got a couple of years left to run on his contract Down Under? If he's retiring, he's got to retire - he can't just up sticks to the UK.

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:29 pm  

It'll be interesting to see how the club go about replacing Hoffman if they do at all. The depth in that backrow is massive and we may target a centre now to replace him with Joel heading back into the pack.

I said a few weeks ago that it's so hard to predict what positions we need to sign in until we know exactly who's staying and who's leaving. Since then we've found out Carmont is staying on and Hoff is going so things are coming a little bit clearer. We keep hearing rumours about Tommy going with Maguire and if that does happen we'll need to sign a seriously good player to replace him.

Interesting times.

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:31 pm  

Get Gansier over, he will make Carmont look like Vaeliki

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:29 pm  

Even players with the reputation of Gasnier would have to play very well for them to work out a better signing then Carmont. I don't know why but something seems to have just clicked for him here and he seems to have found his ideal club. I always wonder if we think he's been so good because expectations were low but it really isn't, he's just been exceptional for us and we'd think that if he was on 50k or 200k per season.

It will take a very good player on top of his game to replace Carmont because he's been magic.

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:30 pm  

post wrote:

Get Gansier over, he will make Carmont look like Vaeliki

Is he Gasnier's dyslexic brother ?

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:39 pm  

twosevenzero wrote:

Is he Gasnier's dyslexic brother ?

it's the ganson's french brother

watch him knock on in wigan's 5 metre line against st helens at least 4 times

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:38 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

Even players with the reputation of Gasnier would have to play very well for them to work out a better signing then Carmont. I don't know why but something seems to have just clicked for him here and he seems to have found his ideal club. I always wonder if we think he's been so good because expectations were low but it really isn't, he's just been exceptional for us and we'd think that if he was on 50k or 200k per season.

It will take a very good player on top of his game to replace Carmont because he's been magic.

spot on

Re: Rumours and signings v7 : Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:43 pm  

with all these experienced players leaving/retiring this season i hope we have at least 2 experienced players coming, i reckon we'll be knackered if we are relying on what we will have left and a handful of inexperienced (at SL level) youngsters, hopefully a prop, halfback & Centre can be found, with Joel rejoining the forwards