Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 1:00 pm  

Hampshire to Cas on loan expected to be announced in the next couple of days

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:20 pm  

Cruncher wrote:

If it came to a question of who would you rather have with ball in hand near the line, Carney or Charnley, who'd you pick?

The Josh of two years ago would win hands-down, but these days I make it even money at the very least.

Can Carney play centre? We've lacked a beast on the inside flank for quite some time now.

I'd take Carney of the two, won't happen though whilst Charnley's under contract. Centre wise we're more than set IMO with Sarginson, Bateman, Gelling and Gildart. It's simply not a smart use of cap money to sign a player in a position we already have covered with good players

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:49 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

I'd take Carney of the two, won't happen though whilst Charnley's under contract. Centre wise we're more than set IMO with Sarginson, Bateman, Gelling and Gildart. It's simply not a smart use of cap money to sign a player in a position we already have covered with good players

Would it be cap money? The rumour is a straight swap for Hampshire.

Also, Sarginson is more or less gone. Given that of the three who remain, only one is an actual centre - and he's still a kid - I'm not sure it looks quite so rosey. Of course, there's an argument that Carney isn't a centre either. But I can't help feeling that we should be able to fit a barnstormer like him in somewhere, and that it would be criminal not to at least try ... one thing we've lacked all season, IMO, is a line-breaker.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:53 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

Hull FC apparently, there's no way we would bring him in whilst we have Charnley and Manfredi.

At the right price or even on loan perhaps we may be tempted?

If Charnley or Manfredi don't perfrom or get injured do we have a quality winger ready to fill their shoes?

I can see why a player like Carney would be considered, he is an absolute beast and often takes more than one player to stop him.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:16 pm  

Carney is unplayable close to the line but he's got plenty of errors in him.

If there was any way of fitting him and the other two wingers in the squad then great but I wouldn't break the bank for him.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:15 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

Carney is unplayable close to the line but he's got plenty of errors in him.

If there was any way of fitting him and the other two singers in the squad then great but I wouldn't break the bank for him.

Agreed.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:53 pm  

Not a big fan of Carney. Had one purple patch but nothing extraordinary before or since. I still believe in Charnley. He will come back to his best again.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:00 pm  

Sam Burgess has been given time off by Bath whilst he considers his future in Union.

Full story now on the BBC web page Sports section, it may explain why he was at Leigh on Saturday and not supporting his own Club Bath who had a match on the same day.

I tried to post a link, but for some reason I could not do it.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:15 pm  

stillinthepast wrote:

Sam Burgess has been given time off by Bath whilst he considers his future in Union.

Full story now on the BBC web page Sports section, it may explain why he was at Leigh on Saturday and not supporting his own Club Bath who had a match on the same day.

I tried to post a link, but for some reason I could not do it.

It looks like he may well be going back to South Sydney. If he does it will be great for our game as it might cause our players to think twice about going to the dark side.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:23 pm  

Ford is saying Sam is staying with Bath