Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:45 am  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

I've no idea what your on about, I'm extremely happy with everything going on at our club. A wind of change is blowing through our club after years of neglect. Rejoice pop tart, rejoice.

Bloody Hell, Maggie Thatcher has returned from the dead

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:45 am  

poplar cats alive wrote:

Wasn't Darren Fritz a young unknown when he came over at a similar age, and he didn't turn out too bad. I wish him well and look forward to seeing him play.

Think Fritz was fairly established in the Canberra team before he joined us.

If he turns out like him though I wouldn’t be too disappointed.

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:48 am  

Lot of 20 year olds playing in S L in first teams in Australia, Young players are far imore advanced over there, than over here.

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:54 am  

alegend wrote:

Lot of 20 year olds playing in S L in first teams in Australia, Young players are far imore advanced over there, than over here.

Not sure about that, especially the forwards. Quality 18-21 year olds are playing SL over here, over there they’re playing state cup/Flegg rugby. No coincidence majority of our forwards do extremely well in Aus. If there’s one thing we have been able to compete over the last 20/30 years with the Aussies/Nz, it’s forwards.

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:04 pm  

Has Windrow left the club? I can't see anything.

I would consider Boothroyd as a kind of DR player. I suspect Cronulla rate him and wants him to get more game time before committing, but away from the NRL. With the Dolphins and another new team on the way, even the NRL is stretched, so maybe developing players for a year or so at one of the better Championship clubs is a good option. I say this mainly because of the excellent backroom staff we now have and the good facilities that are coming online. It might be miles off, just seems a bit of an unusual signing otherwise. We may see more if we have developed a bit of a hook-up with the Sharks. They are a club we have a history with.

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:10 pm  

It’s a very intriguing signing is this. He’s clearly not coming from the other side of the world to play in reserve grade, as flegg is a much higher standard, he’s coming for a starting spot. If he’s getting into the 18 list at the jets he’s doing very well. He’s either coming over for 1 year to develop himself, as he’ll have to be an absolute gun to warrant a quota spot if we go into SL in 2025, or he’s backing himself to warrant that spot.

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 12:32 pm  

I think this is a great singing.
He’s raw and a big unit with a bit of pace.
I feel that’s what Wakefield have missed is pace in the forwards.

I wonder, if he’s a replacement for Kelepi who is heavily linked with Hull KR?

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:28 pm  

Sam Eseh did very well as a 18/19-year-old for Featherstone and Barrow in the Championship, think he was the young player of the year. This guy will be more developed than Esesh was at that time IMO and it's not like he's being dropped into SL, he's playing in the Championship and we haven't brought him over to do anything except fight for a first-team place, otherwise, he'd have probably stopped where he was.

[PopTart]

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:40 pm  

jonh wrote:

Think Fritz was fairly established in the Canberra team before he joined us.

If he turns out like him though I wouldn’t be too disappointed.

He was 23 by the time he joined us after 3 seasons with Canberra.
He played State of Origin the year after he left us.

Not really a good comparison I agree.

Re: Toby Boothroyd : Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:46 pm  

As he has been a Cronulla player, is it not likely that the Fifita brothers have been asked for advice about him or may even have recommended him to us ? Give the lad a chance before writing him off.