Re: first team players : Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:50 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Squad looks like this now:

1 Jordan Tansey
2 Tom Johnstone
3 Ashley Gibson
4 Joe Arundal
5 Bill Tupou
6 Jacob Miller
7 Liam Finn
8 Nick Scruton
9 Michael Sio
10 Scott Anderson
11 Jon Molloy
12 Daniel Kirmond
13 Anthony Tupou

14 Stuart Howarth
15 Anthony England
16 Mickael Simon
17 Matty Ashurst

18 Tinirau Arona
19 Andy Yates
20 Anthony Walker
21 Max Jowitt
22 Jordan Crowther
23 Sean Morris
24 Ben Shulver
25 Richard Owen
26 Craig Hall
27 Reece Lyne
28 Chris Annakin

Just reading the Bill Tupou news article on the Wildcats site and Brian Smith clearly see's Bill as a centre - in which case I reckon he gets the 4 ahead of Arundel.

Personally I can't see a problem with Bill and Gibson as our main centres with Arundel and Morris as back up - I can live with that. Move Owen to 5 and Bobs you're uncle.

Re: first team players : Wed Nov 04, 2015 6:26 pm  

When are the squad numbers released

Re: first team players : Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:27 pm  

Controversial... But I'd quite like to see a fully fit Craig Hall in the centre with bill outside him. With Moore or Godinet and another back, I think we are set for pre season and a much more competitive season

Re: first team players : Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:14 pm  

Mable_Syrup wrote:

Controversial... But I'd quite like to see a fully fit Craig Hall in the centre with bill outside him. With Moore or Godinet and another back, I think we are set for pre season and a much more competitive season

Apparantly you can't go against the norm on here so no. If Hall's mindset is right he could play almost anywhere as there is no doubt he has talent - that's what is so annoying about him in particular. I think he'd make a decent S/O as well but it's really all down to him.

[PopTart]

Re: first team players : Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:57 pm  

I think Hall is too good to not be part of the team but he was very frustrating last season.
I thought he looked really good in preseason and against Cas but when the team took a dip he seemed to go even further down.
I'd like to see him at either full back or centre.
He has a long kicking game too which is handy.

Let's hope Smith can turn him around.
He'd be like a new signing if back to form.

Re: first team players : Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:58 pm  

vastman wrote:

Apparantly you can't go against the norm on here so no. If Hall's mindset is right he could play almost anywhere as there is no doubt he has talent - that's what is so annoying about him in particular. I think he'd make a decent S/O as well but it's really all down to him.

I know he had a couple of shockers but so did all the team pretty much. Then he disappeared and the assumption was it was due to his attitude, but was that actually the case? Didn't it turn out he was just injured? Hope it was and his head is right for next season. Not full back for me, centre or wing

Re: first team players : Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:14 pm  

Hall had a hernia operation it was troubling him at the start of the season, he tried to play through it but it got worse. So in my book deserves another chance for next season.

[PopTart]

Re: first team players : Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:16 am  

This team is starting to look like a contender
I'm starting to think that I like Hall at centre again
The only one I worry about is Howarth as the 14 hooker, but I guess Smith could be asking Sio to do a Roby 80 minutes.

I do feel like we might make the team lighter with some loans out as well.


1 Ben Jones-Bishop
2 Tom Johnstone
3 Ashley Gibson
4 Craig Hall
5 Bill Tupou
6 Jacob Miller
7 Liam Finn
8 Nick Scruton
9 Michael Sio
10 Scott Anderson
11 Tinirau Arona
12 Daniel Kirmond
13 Anthony Tupou

14 Stuart Howarth
15 Anthony England
16 Mickael Simon
17 Matty Ashurst

18 Jon Molloy
19 Andy Yates
20 Anthony Walker
21 Max Jowitt
22 Jordan Crowther
23 Sean Morris
24 Joe Arundal
25 Richard Owen
26 Jordan Tansey
27 Reece Lyne
28 Chris Annakin
29 Ben Shulver

Re: first team players : Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:40 am  

I thought I'd read Anderson had left? Expect Moore to be our hooker with sio

Re: first team players : Thu Nov 05, 2015 11:23 am  

Anthony Tupou has made his name running good lines on the edges. I would expect him and Kirmond to play 2nd row with Simon/Arona/Molloy/Annakin possibly starting at 13

How good is it to have options!!