Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Wed Oct 26, 2022 6:49 am  

homme vaste wrote:

You would probably expect the below to be in /around the 17;

Whitbread - 24
Butler - 24
Tanginoa - 28
Bowden - 30
Battye - 30
Crowther - 25

Then add to that the likes of Eseh and Windrow hopefully breaking through to play a few, even if you add a few older forwards 32/33+ we still have a good mix of youth and experience IMO.

Afraid it’s one of the sully things fans do to wallow in negativity. This year it’s dads army next year it will be the baby brigade.

True should we sign Proctor that would push the average age uo. But if you want some real quality from the NRL by nature they will be knocking on.

We’d all prefer Proctor aged 28-30 but at that point he was still hot property in the NRL. It’s never going to happen, not even for Saints.

All that matter is that one, he and any of the other older players are still up for it and two, no long term injuries .

We won’t have many of them at their best but we don’t need that, decent form will do nicely.

Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:32 pm  

If rumours are to be believed we will have Proctor, Mago and Lawrence adding to the Props and Taylor at loose.

4 rumours that refuse to go away.

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Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:57 pm  

jonh wrote:

If rumours are to be believed we will have Proctor, Mago and Lawrence adding to the Props and Taylor at loose.

4 rumours that refuse to go away.

I'm sure you've posted that before, and when you did, someone explained to you that Proctor is a second Row.

Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:05 pm  

jonh wrote:

If rumours are to be believed we will have Proctor, Mago and Lawrence adding to the Props and Taylor at loose.

4 rumours that refuse to go away.

Isn’t Lawrence a loose that has ocassionally filled in at prop? He’s more a steady Eddie forward I think.

Mago would be idea for us. We need that impact from the bench and a player who has big drives and can push out some post contact metres. Him or a player like fits that bill.

Proctor - we need a second row and I can see him starting and Tanginoa also coming on to add some real impact from the bench. Unless we play to start with Proctor and Tanginoa with Ashurst coming on for Proctor. That’s some serious size in the second row and the more I think it could be a positive move if we get a motivated Proctor.

Taylor - very much a defensive 13. Not sure we need him and Lawrence tbh. One or the other for me.

It’s interesting as if these 4 come true then we actually haven’t really explored the option of WC players afterall.

There’s some good looking players in the WC that would be worth a look at still.

I would guess we still have more than just 4 coming in.

Hope to see Shaw and Croft re-sign for us too.

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Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:23 pm  

Lawrence and Taylor are world's apart.
Taylor is one of if not the best defender in the league

Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Thu Oct 27, 2022 4:46 am  

Proctor has been a secondrow for most of his career however as is often the case he was increasingly used as a middle towards the end of his time in the NRL.

I think we will see him used as a Prop at Trinity with KT reverting back to his more effective second row position under the new coaching set up.

Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:41 am  

jonh wrote:

If rumours are to be believed we will have Proctor, Mago and Lawrence adding to the Props and Taylor at loose.

4 rumours that refuse to go away.

Other than that thread on wigan fans, where’s the mago rumour coming from?

Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:56 am  

LG83 wrote:

Other than that thread on wigan fans, where’s the mago rumour coming from?

Hard to see anything in it. Not on any of the media outlets, many of whom are willing to publish forum gossip as fact.

Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:58 am  

LG83 wrote:

Other than that thread on wigan fans, where’s the mago rumour coming from?

Was told this by someone very close to the Wigan club, someone who is very rarely wrong.

Not saying they are right, but they are right a lot more than they are wrong and they only really say something if it is in the pipeline.

Re: What we currently look like for 2023 : Thu Oct 27, 2022 8:25 am  

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Lawrence and Taylor are world's apart.
Taylor is one of if not the best defender in the league

Out of all the players we’re linked with Taylor is by far for me the best. Captained Salford last year amazingly. Saw the cream of the crop of NZ forwards running at him when he played the exhibition game for Leeds vs the kiwis, he felled them one after the other. Folded Asofa Solomona in half to the point he got up grimacing.