Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:16 pm  

http://www.totalrl.com/young-fullback-luke-hooley-contention-feature-wakefield-pre-season/ Sounds like preseason is going well! I agree with CC, I can't remember when we've had so much strength in depth!

http://www.totalrl.com/young-fullback-luke-hooley-contention-feature-wakefield-pre-season/ Sounds like preseason is going well! I agree with CC, I can't remember when we've had so much strength in depth!

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:30 pm  

Murgan wrote: http://www.totalrl.com/young-fullback-luke-hooley-contention-feature-wakefield-pre-season/ Sounds like preseason is going well! I agree with CC, I can't remember when we've had so much strength in depth! A lot of people have been banging on about this kid, looking forward to it. Feel a bit for Max but I'm afraid it's exactly how we should want it.

Murgan wrote: http://www.totalrl.com/young-fullback-luke-hooley-contention-feature-wakefield-pre-season/ Sounds like preseason is going well! I agree with CC, I can't remember when we've had so much strength in depth! A lot of people have been banging on about this kid, looking forward to it. Feel a bit for Max but I'm afraid it's exactly how we should want it.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:44 pm  

I wonder if we'll see Jowitt at 6 in the trial games. As has been debated, he looks like he could play there. With the emergence of Hooley it may be his opportunity in the future. He has pace and can pick a pass.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:47 pm  

Great so see. I just wander if Max could play another position. The lads class and I'd hate to see him pushed out.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:15 pm  

The only thing that gets me with players like Hooley is their long term commitment to a club that isn't really in their blood. If Bradford do get back into Super League what's to say the likes of Hooley (and Trueman at Cas) won't jump at the opportunity to return to their roots. We've lost a few young lads over the last few years who've used Trinity as a convenient vehicle to get noticed, then buggered off to Wire, Hull KR and Huddersfield for example.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:18 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

I wonder if we'll see Jowitt at 6 in the trial games. As has been debated, he looks like he could play there. With the emergence of Hooley it may be his opportunity in the future. He has pace and can pick a pass.

I couldn't agree more, he looks more like a 6 than a 1 to me - but Coaches don't seem to like experimenting these days. It's a huge shame because some players change as they get older and their junior positions which lets be honest can be chosen in a fairly random way no longer suit.

Who's to say whether young Jowitt was mis cast as a kid probably because his dad played FB and there has always been a S/O inside.

I'm not suggesting we trial this at SL level but a couple go 30 minute run outs in the friendlies surely the lad at least deserves that chance.

Lets also be straight, Miller has come a long way and is a useful player but I still maintain he will never be able to run a game. Seems second nature to F'B's.Whilst Finn gets ever older.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:21 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

The only thing that gets me with players like Hooley is their long term commitment to a club that isn't really in their blood. If Bradford do get back into Super League what's to say the likes of Hooley (and Trueman at Cas) won't jump at the opportunity to return to their roots. We've lost a few young lads over the last few years who've used Trinity as a convenient vehicle to get noticed, then buggered off to Wire, Hull KR and Huddersfield for example.

Don't buy that, some of our most loyal servants have come from outside the district. Where as many a Wakey lad has jumped ship for more glamorous clubs at the drop of a hat.

It's a nice idea but in reality that's not my experience at all.

Also I believe he's from Dewsbury not Bradford so no loyalty issue there I suspect.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:34 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

The only thing that gets me with players like Hooley is their long term commitment to a club that isn't really in their blood. If Bradford do get back into Super League what's to say the likes of Hooley (and Trueman at Cas) won't jump at the opportunity to return to their roots. We've lost a few young lads over the last few years who've used Trinity as a convenient vehicle to get noticed, then buggered off to Wire, Hull KR and Huddersfield for example.

Unless licensing returns, Bradford are probably a decade away from making a return to super league at the least. Not only have the got to get out of the third tier, they've also got to get past some solid championship teams like Toronto, Leigh, London, Fev, Halifax and Toulouse who are all looking for promotion.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:46 pm  

I do think though that Miller over the past 2 seasons has improved his all round game, and could well grow into an organiser. Never say never, as they say.

Jowitt could well turn out and become a decent half back, but if we are already thinking of him as potentially that, bearing mind that we do have Ackroyd and Schofield too, could we be undermining their abilities at this stage, epsecially given some of the reviews they have both been given on here.

Re: Luke Hooley : Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:11 pm  

Chester mentioned On Monday night having tried out Jowitt at Hooker. We'd all like to see Max make it at FB but he's got his work cut out.