Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:11 pm  

PopTart wrote:

For all we know, this 'deal' may well save the club.
I don't like that we had to do it and different decisions in the past may have avoided it but we are where we are.

No one liked it when Spencer and Lyons went to Leeds but that deal absolutely saved us.

I almost don't care how many Sts beat us by if they do. I want the game to be used as prep for the attack against Cas. We have to win that game and we wouldn't have won it without a fullback. We need to give him all the opportunity he needs to gel with the team.

That was a genius deal iirc. Keith Rayne, Andy Mason, Mark Conway, Phil Fox.

Andy Mason was my favourite player. Also, remember those forward passes that Conway used to fire out to Fox on the left wing? Marvellous.

Made watching Trinity good again after some fallow years in the 1980's.

And we got Spenner back a few years later for peanuts.

Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:04 pm  

The club’s lack of foresight has cost us one of our most promising players. It was obvious to the majority that we had not got adequate cover for fullback except using Gaskell. We had one lined up who had proved himself in the RWB but no we needed another forward.
I can say without doubt that whoever negotiated the deal with Hull KR was a godsend to them, I bet they couldn’t believe their luck a possible future star for their third choice fullback and no money. We are lucky because if we had more like Hall in our squad other clubs would be beating a track to our door looking for similar deals.

Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:06 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

The club’s lack of foresight has cost us one of our most promising players. It was obvious to the majority that we had not got adequate cover for fullback except using Gaskell. We had one lined up who had proved himself in the RWB but no we needed another forward.
I can say without doubt that whoever negotiated the deal with Hull KR was a godsend to them, I bet they couldn’t believe their luck a possible future star for their third choice fullback and no money. We are lucky because if we had more like Hall in our squad other clubs would be beating a track to our door looking for similar deals.

And of course everyones favourite player agent Mr Harrison got a payday out of it.

Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:27 pm  

People on here and other forums were 'crying out ' for forwards.

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Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:34 pm  

Borderboy wrote:

People on here and other forums were 'crying out ' for forwards.

And we got one from Huddersfield and one from Wigan.

But a full back was needed far more than a forward imho.

Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:35 pm  

We've signed a fulback got a winger on loan a second rower on loan a hooker on loan where's the No 6 we desperately need

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Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:36 pm  

Teltry wrote:

We've signed a fulback got a winger on loan a second rower on loan a hooker on loan where's the No 6 we desperately need

1 by getting those it frees Smith up to play
2 there are no stand offs available as far as I can see.

Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:43 pm  

Going back to the 5-2 swap deal with Leeds,we absolutely stuffed them,and everybody knew it.Spencer was a very good player but lacked a yard of pace.We couldn't believe it, a bit like now with with the CH fiasco.

Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:50 pm  

Teltry wrote:

We've signed a fulback got a winger on loan a second rower on loan a hooker on loan where's the No 6 we desperately need

We've got a number 6, he just couldn't play last week due to injury.

Smith and Lino have the makings of a decent little partnership, not world beating but enough to guide a team around the park. It's no coincidence that our best game was against Salford with those two paired.

Re: Swap Deal : Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:56 pm  

FOREVERTRIN wrote:

Going back to the 5-2 swap deal with Leeds,we absolutely stuffed them,and everybody knew it.Spencer was a very good player but lacked a yard of pace.We couldn't believe it, a bit like now with with the CH fiasco.

Gary Spencer’s performances from Full Back at Leeds Kept Andrew Ettingshausen on the wing until he went to the Coach and threatened to go home unless he got the No1 shirt