Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:33 pm  

Singleton might be a good prospect but for me he isn't what we need. We were obviously looking for an established superleague prop on a permanent contract and ended up with a relatively untried loan signing. All we are doing is help develop him for Leeds as there is no way we will end up with him permanently this time. Sorry but we may as well have kept Matt James.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:38 pm  

Mable_Syrup wrote:

I didn't think trout did himself any favours yesterday at all. Stepped a few times which led to a couple of tries, dominated when running the ball in, it showed prop isn't his position and he should only be used in a crisis in that position.

Give the kid a chance he's still learning. Quite a few of our more experienced players were 'stepped' more than him.

In fact I can remember Danny M stepping someone very easily and young trouty tracked back to make the tackle and save a certain try.

I accept trout still has many faults but singleton is also still very green. So I can't see the point of developing a player for leeds and neglecting one of our own.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:03 pm  

What we were after was a prop - hence the links to Kirke, Mason and Sidlow. What Singleton is, at the moment, is a back-rower - who will probably play prop one day, but was listed at loose-forward yesterday.

Leeds seem to be getting the better of this deal, but then we probably owe them a favour or two as they have been 'generous' to our club over recent years.

I am still of the opinion that we should have kept hold of Matt James until we had a better option. He was big, had a fair few games under his belt, was mature as a prop and looked well in the first team last year. I am saying this to compare him with Singleton, who's CV looks weak in comparison - even though he may well be a great player in the making.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:09 pm  

Mable_Syrup wrote:

I didn't think trout did himself any favours yesterday at all. Stepped a few times which led to a couple of tries, dominated when running the ball in, it showed prop isn't his position and he should only be used in a crisis in that position.

We all see it differently, I thought Trout made that emergency prop spot his own with an excellent display - much better than Singleton.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:01 pm  

bren2k wrote:

Touche!

Justin Poore has played 20 minutes for WTW and has already out pantomime-villained Ryan Bailey.

Classic Poore - he does what he wants.

I think we need more players like Justin Poore in our game and it will be good to see how he goes when he is not getting wound up.
Whilst Bailey did his usual again yesterday it was good to see a bit of biff from your guy.
By the way where do Sandal Spartans play their home games?
I used to watch the Walnut Tree ARLFC play at Sandal many years ago and they had a decent team then.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:21 pm  

chapylad wrote:

I think we need more players like Justin Poore in our game and it will be good to see how he goes when he is not getting wound up.
Whilst Bailey did his usual again yesterday it was good to see a bit of biff from your guy.
By the way where do Sandal Spartans play their home games?
I used to watch the Walnut Tree ARLFC play at Sandal many years ago and they had a decent team then.

I don't know about more, but some old school front rowers certainly add value from a spectators point of view!

Spartans currently play at West Yorkshire Sports and Social - feel free to pop in next season; all match details are posted on our website.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:23 pm  

Theboyem wrote:

All we are doing is help develop him for Leeds

That's not strictly true - we're also getting cover from a young player who is widely regarded as an excellent prospect; we are getting something out of the arrangement.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:03 pm  

bren2k wrote:

I don't know about more, but some old school front rowers certainly add value from a spectators point of view!

Spartans currently play at West Yorkshire Sports and Social - feel free to pop in next season; all match details are posted on our website.

Cheers mate might do that.
I will wear my Rhinos shirt so you will notice me

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:15 pm  

jack in the box wrote:

I watched Singleton closely yesterday and also watched our present '5th prop', Kyle trout.
Trout is the better player in my opinion to do the covereing job next season. Ok Singleton my
turn out to be very good oneday but can't see the point of bringing him in on a short term deal
to add a bit of cover.

I like you was particulurly looking at Singleton in view of the speculation of him coming to us and I'm afraid I did not see anything from him that was better than what we already have in Kyle Trout or had in Matt James.

He took it up but so did Trout but I thought Trout did a lot more in covering and getting back when we were split. He may be one for the future but I don't see anything better than we already have for cover and it seems to me that Leeds would be getting the better of the deal by us bringing on one of their youngsters whilst it may hold back one of our own.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:22 pm  

On the basis that the club and Mr Agar have said that we are looking at a couple of players in and it seems likely that at least one of these will be a Front Row Forward, then maybe Trout may get pushed down the pecking order, but he will have helped his own cause yesterday regardless of who the new player(s) may be.