Re: Wigag 19 for Thursday against Wakefield. : Wed Jul 17, 2019 7:41 am
Jukesays wrote:
Because our biggest problem at the moment as I have alluded to since prior to the start of the season is getting enough minutes out of our senior forwards.
That's been magnified by losing tatuai and Hamlin but with the reduced interchange they were all going to need to play more note less minutes.
People with agendas have picked scapegoats this season as always withbolaywrs such as sarginson, William's Isa and Powell taking most of the flak and Lockers seems to get it from quite a lot due to his age.
Yet Lockers minutes have been pretty good this year along with appearances but he still gets picked out.
We have Clubb (in particular) Flower and now Greenwood (which I'm prepared to give time to as 5/6 knocks/injuries over the last 12/14 weeks isn't necessarily something that will go on forever but is a worrying trend) contributing very little in terms of minutes and appearances and am amazed he gets away in general with relatively very little criticism IMO.
We do have quite a lot of issues but in terms of prioritising them our front row issue is 10xtimes larger than any other IMO and I get frustrated at criticism of the players like Sarge/Williams/Powell/Isa who all play 90% of games and 70/80mins every week with the best effort of all the players yet get 90% of the criticism from the experts, whilst others get away relatively lightly.
The decision to give Clubb 2 more years is something I am dtill having sleepless nights about and its causing me severe neck pain as I'm shaking my head in disbelief that much.
If it's ok with you when I see players being singled out who have done nothing but their best and been brilliant for this club being pointed out for their supposed lack of games or minutes forgive my tiny indulgence in pointing out that 2 or 3 of our squad need to comtribute a lot more and we need to worry about that without worrying about Lockers.
That's been magnified by losing tatuai and Hamlin but with the reduced interchange they were all going to need to play more note less minutes.
People with agendas have picked scapegoats this season as always withbolaywrs such as sarginson, William's Isa and Powell taking most of the flak and Lockers seems to get it from quite a lot due to his age.
Yet Lockers minutes have been pretty good this year along with appearances but he still gets picked out.
We have Clubb (in particular) Flower and now Greenwood (which I'm prepared to give time to as 5/6 knocks/injuries over the last 12/14 weeks isn't necessarily something that will go on forever but is a worrying trend) contributing very little in terms of minutes and appearances and am amazed he gets away in general with relatively very little criticism IMO.
We do have quite a lot of issues but in terms of prioritising them our front row issue is 10xtimes larger than any other IMO and I get frustrated at criticism of the players like Sarge/Williams/Powell/Isa who all play 90% of games and 70/80mins every week with the best effort of all the players yet get 90% of the criticism from the experts, whilst others get away relatively lightly.
The decision to give Clubb 2 more years is something I am dtill having sleepless nights about and its causing me severe neck pain as I'm shaking my head in disbelief that much.
If it's ok with you when I see players being singled out who have done nothing but their best and been brilliant for this club being pointed out for their supposed lack of games or minutes forgive my tiny indulgence in pointing out that 2 or 3 of our squad need to comtribute a lot more and we need to worry about that without worrying about Lockers.
If it's ok with you answer my question what has SOL got to with Clubb? By using Clubb you are simply deflecting the question of how many minutes SOL plays during the course of the season and the clubs management of the salary cap.
SOL has been one of my all time favourite players so I have no agenda re SOL but I can understand why some question his contribution over the entire season. I suspect cash wise he may be our highest paid player, he is our captain and to a large extent he still is our go to player. For those 3 reasons I suspect is why people question SOLminutes and why they get frustrated when he is off injured on a regular basis or cannot play the full 80.
Personally I was glad when we resigned him for this season however, age is against him and for me there is a definite growing of deminishing returns as he gets older and his all round contribution is nowhere that of a few years ago. Having said that I dread to think what this would have been like if SOL hadn't been here this season even if his performances compared to earlier years are of significantly lower quality.
As I say I think with SOL it is more frustration than anything else that generates the questions from posters as to his worth re the number of minutes he plays over the season.
The problem we have as I see it is how do we replace SOL for the same level of salary cap expenditure which is compounded by in my opinion poor use of the cap elsewhere and that is entirely the fault off IL and KR not the players who have been given contracts that appear to be incredulous to most supporters e.g. Escare, Clubb
) but was listening on the Tarmac waiting to fly back and I heard that Williams and Isa didn't have great games, Sarge gave a few penalties away etc. etc. and couldn't help but think people would start having a go at them again.
