Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:50 pm  

Haven't seen the Warriors' latest game yet, but I remarked on the other thread that Tommy L looked pretty good at 7 lately. Other teams have 7s who can and do score tries (like Sneyd and Sandow), why can't we?

And on recruitment from the NRL generally, our rivals have picked up players like Sandow, Minichiello, Pritchard, Miller, Luke Burgess, Feleti Mateo.

We've bought the Kiwi Ryan Bailey.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:16 pm  

moto748 wrote:

Haven't seen the Warriors' latest game yet, but I remarked on the other thread that Tommy L looked pretty good at 7 lately. Other teams have 7s who can and do score tries (like Sneyd and Sandow), why can't we?

And on recruitment from the NRL generally, our rivals have picked up players like Sandow, Minichiello, Pritchard, Miller, Luke Burgess, Feleti Mateo.

We've bought the Kiwi Ryan Bailey.

Not sure if that's tongue cheek but at least give him time before judging FPN,he's not played for 3 months prior to coming over here,he did okay imo apart from the brain fart towards the end.

I would say buying FPN,Burgess and TL is pretty good NRL recruitment for next year.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:26 am  

Not especially tongue in cheek, and based on seeing him in the NRL rather than his two appearances for Wigan. I stand by my view than we've recruited poorly. Frank Pritchard offers everything FPN does, and is a much better footballer to boot.

Great to have Joe back, I agree, and I have no problem with TL, but in playing terms he can only be a very short-term option.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:54 am  

I read a few Hull fans saying Pritchard has been pretty poor this season so it doesn't sound like we've missed out on anything too special. I'm pretty pleased with FPN so far. He's clearly lacking some match sharpness but that'll come.

Aw for our recruitment overall I think it's looking pretty good. I don't have an issue with the squad. We could do with some luck with injuries and for the players to stop compounding the injuries by getting themselves in to disciplinary scrapes.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:37 pm  

The problem isnt the squad, its the (lack of) coaching

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:48 pm  

[Gareth] wrote:

The problem isnt the squad, its the (lack of) coaching

Agree. We are in desperate need of an assistant coach and an additional attacking coach.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 2:42 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Agree. We are in desperate need of an assistant coach and an additional attacking coach.

That's why we've brought Tommy back isn't it.

Improves the side, but brings a new option in regards to coaching.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:22 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

I read a few Hull fans saying Pritchard has been pretty poor this season so it doesn't sound like we've missed out on anything too special. I'm pretty pleased with FPN so far. He's clearly lacking some match sharpness but that'll come.

Aw for our recruitment overall I think it's looking pretty good. I don't have an issue with the squad. We could do with some luck with injuries and for the players to stop compounding the injuries by getting themselves in to disciplinary scrapes.

What have you seen in FPN which pleases you?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:49 pm  

Last Son of Wigan wrote:

What have you seen in FPN which pleases you?

He's run the ball well so far and defensively he's been pretty good. Like I said he's clearly lacking match fitness so he's going to get better as the weeks go by.

To throw it back to you, what have you seen that you don't like? (Presuming you don't like what you've seen). I was miffed with his lack of discipline on Friday so he needs to watch that.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:15 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

He's run the ball well so far and defensively he's been pretty good. Like I said he's clearly lacking match fitness so he's going to get better as the weeks go by.

To throw it back to you, what have you seen that you don't like? (Presuming you don't like what you've seen). I was miffed with his lack of discipline on Friday so he needs to watch that.

You've said it really; fitness which will come over time. The bigger issue is his discipline, I would have hoped after getting the boot at Raiders he would have learnt. Sadly he clearly hasn't tackling LMS off the ball and attacking him. This is a seasoned pro we're talking about, not some angry kid looking to prove a point.