Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:01 pm  

Shifty Cat wrote:

The Leeds lot rate him massively, so he must have something about him.

I thought the kid looked pretty good yesterday nothing more but it's hard get a proper opinion of him in a pre season friendly, a lot of the players on show looked under cooked.

Not now they don't, you know what they are like

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:24 pm  

Why is it a shoot-out between Trout and Singleton? I don't see any suggestion that we're off-loading Trout to bring him in, so I don't see how his addition as cover in the forwards will do anything to hinder Trout's development.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:30 pm  

bren2k wrote:

Why is it a shoot-out between Trout and Singleton? I don't see any suggestion that we're off-loading Trout to bring him in, so I don't see how his addition as cover in the forwards will do anything to hinder Trout's development.

Nobody is suggesting that. The issue is whether Singleton offers more than Trout, because if he doesn't I'm not sure I get the deal. Basically you're just duplicating a fringe player, when what most people seemed to think was that we needed an experienced prop. That is certainly what Agar seemed to suggest. It's not a dig at the club or the player just a legitimate question.

Basically we still have not got the much vaunted 5th prop - if Singleton is the answer then we already had the player in Trout IMHO.
What both these players become in the future is another matter.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:36 pm  

I'm not sure that Singleton is the answer to the original question; perhaps he's just the answer to a supplementary question that came up during the process?? (stretching the analogy there a bit, I realise)

I wouldn't be surprised to see another experienced prop come in - meanwhile, Singleton offers additional cover and for me, Trout's future is in the SR; he's a tough lad, but I don't think he's big enough to mix it with SL props week in and week out.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:49 pm  

vastman wrote:

Does he offer more than Trout, didn't see it myself.

I don't think he does offer more than Trout, but that is a matter of opinion.

We had a perfectly good prop in Tom Lilycrop and let him go, we had a good prop called Adam Gledhill- we let him go. There must be method in the madness?

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:01 pm  

cant understand how people are talking about a match between trout and singieton and completley ignoring the fact that we had a better prospect on our books at the end of last season and if those raving about another clubs youth had took the time to watch our academy they would have seen for themselves

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:09 pm  

bren2k wrote:

I'm not sure that Singleton is the answer to the original question; perhaps he's just the answer to a supplementary question that came up during the process?? (stretching the analogy there a bit, I realise)

I wouldn't be surprised to see another experienced prop come in - meanwhile, Singleton offers additional cover and for me, Trout's future is in the SR; he's a tough lad, but I don't think he's big enough to mix it with SL props week in and week out.

Yes I'm not sure Singleton is the answer to the question either, I think people are putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5, obviously time will tell.

In an interview Agar gave a couple of weeks ago I think he mentioned that he was after bringing in 2 players, one of those being an out and out prop and a utility forward, surely Singleton's the latter.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:45 pm  

Singleton is the size of a prop. Trout isn't and will do well at second row this season I'm sure.

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:21 pm  

i note in your posts asmadasa that you seem to give big raps to brad singleton ,i wonder how much youve seen of him ,following our academy for the last 3 yrs icould be wrong but ithink not i will have seen more of him than you,for a start im abig admirer of cumbrian forwards but that is the only thing he as in comman with amor. He is no relation to me but id like to know why posters on here ignore the fact when i point out that in adam gledhill we had a forward who with the right training could have gone to the top and yet we have threads talking about young props.dont get me wrong im a wakefield supporter ,but i watch all the age groups at the club , and unlike some the opposition too,i really think im quallified to judge young players and i suppose it sounds big headed but i think most times i get it right

Re: Brad Singleton : Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:40 pm  

Why let James go if all we do is sign a forward who has less experience in a deal that will benefit Leeds long term?