Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:47 am  

PopTart wrote:

There's talk of JWH coming to Super League next season.

Hull KR the rumour.

He's just the kind of player we'd go for but at 36 I'm not sure we should any more.
We should be looking for younger stars now I think.
He's a star but we've been burned by older stars before.

Great player but we've been burnt many times, let HKR spend the dough on a 36 year old looking for a paid for trip around Europe, maybe we could get Whitbread back.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:16 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Great player but we've been burnt many times, let HKR spend the dough on a 36 year old looking for a paid for trip around Europe, maybe we could get Whitbread back.

I watched the KR game the other night and thought Jai and Kelepi were stand out for them.

In a couple more years I think Jai will be back to the NRL as a very competent Prop.

Albeit, he was in town on Saturday at the Rhubarb festival so maybe he prefers our lovely city over the gold coast.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:55 am  

PopTart wrote:

There's talk of JWH coming to Super League next season.

Hull KR the rumour.
.

Ticks all the requirements for Hull KR.

1. Not come through the Hull KR youth system.

that's it.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:14 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Great player but we've been burnt many times, let HKR spend the dough on a 36 year old looking for a paid for trip around Europe, maybe we could get Whitbread back.

36 year old penalty machine. No thanks. Let someone else pay for his European holiday.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:51 am  

marc271841 wrote:

I watched the KR game the other night and thought Jai and Kelepi were stand out for them.

In a couple more years I think Jai will be back to the NRL as a very competent Prop.

Albeit, he was in town on Saturday at the Rhubarb festival so maybe he prefers our lovely city over the gold coast.

I thought Tanginoa looked like he was getting back to near his best, running wide and causing havoc, they just need to get him on the ball more. I thought Jai put some good work on the ball and made his tackles, I don't know about getting back to the NRL. He tends to get through his work without being too eye-catching in most games, imo not sure if he's got the size and impact that they tend to go for in the NRL. Who knows what the future holds though?

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:52 am  

LyndsayGill wrote:

36 year old penalty machine. No thanks. Let someone else pay for his European holiday.

This.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:07 pm  

PopTart wrote:

There's talk of JWH coming to Super League next season.

Hull KR the rumour.

He's just the kind of player we'd go for but at 36 I'm not sure we should any more.
We should be looking for younger stars now I think.
He's a star but we've been burned by older stars before.

Big no from me in the current climate.

I love watching him play and how he plays the game but under the proposed rule changes and the sanitisation of the game he will hardly play.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:51 pm  

Lets hope its HKR because that may result in a couple of centre players unrest.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:57 pm  

Nope, this would be a bad signing.
On his day he can be a world beater but he’s a penalty machine and at 36 the pace wouldn’t be there.
It goes totally against our recruitment strategy of young and quick players.
His wages would be sky high too.

Re: Rumours thread : Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:43 pm  

Hargreaves still makes a massive contribution to the Chooks performances and they are not as formidable without him in the team, he's aggressive and strong and would (at his best) be a quality addition to any super league team. the question would be... is he hungry enough to be at his best at 36?