Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 11:14 am  

What’s the problem?

Read it or don’t read it it’s not harming anyone

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 11:20 am  

What positions are we short on?
I think full back is an issue with Max the only recognised full back.

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 11:31 am  

Trinity94 wrote:

What positions are we short on?
I think full back is an issue with Max the only recognised full back.

Looking at the squad I would say we are short at prop especially.

But overall we are short at:

Fullback, second row, prop.

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:08 pm  

One thing that remains to be seen is whether we are tough enough

Full time training and a fair amount of class will set us above most and will see us through a lot of games but we will get dragged into some really tough games and we need to have the backbone to get results from those matches.

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:26 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Looking at the squad I would say we are short at prop especially.

But overall we are short at:

Fullback, second row, prop.

Cover at full back, a prop, and maybe a centre.

I think were ok at 2nd row, we've Ashurst, Pitts, Boothroyd, and I think we'll see Griffin more at second row and I think one of the young kids names in the squad is also a second rower.

Bain, Cozza and Pitts will probably fight it out for the 13 spot.

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:30 pm  

The Avenger wrote:

One thing that remains to be seen is whether we are tough enough

Full time training and a fair amount of class will set us above most and will see us through a lot of games but we will get dragged into some really tough games and we need to have the backbone to get results from those matches.

Couldn't agree more here.

It wont be a walk in the park for sure, but I do see us been too strong against most, if not all the opposition. I'm not expecting blow out scores every week, like some.

At the moment, I only really see Toulouse and Fev as serious threats, and do see us better placed to strengthen the squad further in the season, than others.

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:48 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Cover at full back, a prop, and maybe a centre.

I think were ok at 2nd row, we've Ashurst, Pitts, Boothroyd, and I think we'll see Griffin more at second row and I think one of the young kids names in the squad is also a second rower.

Bain, Cozza and Pitts will probably fight it out for the 13 spot.

Pitts will play 13.

Bain will have to play prop.

The players can’t play two positions at once.

Ashurst, Griffin and Boothroyd are our second row. There’s no depth at all. Boothroyd I hope is good but yet to play above under 20s.

Pitts and Cozza will share 13 I presume.

Ashurst, griffin and Boothroyd second row.

Which ever way you cut it we are a bit light. In a few positions.

Centre we can probably get away with. Thornley, Pratt, Croft with Law too. Kay will cover a few positions in a back up role I suspect.

It’s a real shame we couldn’t keep Whitbread and Tanginoa because we would have looked frightening opposition to most championship squads.

We just need to replace these two with some high quality and we will look much stronger. No good though if they’re not good quality starting players. I can see why we are waiting to sign good quality players who will enhance the squad for this year and beyond.

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:23 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Pitts will play 13.

Bain will have to play prop.

The players can’t play two positions at once.

Ashurst, Griffin and Boothroyd are our second row. There’s no depth at all. Boothroyd I hope is good but yet to play above under 20s.

Pitts and Cozza will share 13 I presume.

Ashurst, griffin and Boothroyd second row.

Which ever way you cut it we are a bit light. In a few positions.

Centre we can probably get away with. Thornley, Pratt, Croft with Law too. Kay will cover a few positions in a back up role I suspect.

It’s a real shame we couldn’t keep Whitbread and Tanginoa because we would have looked frightening opposition to most championship squads.

We just need to replace these two with some high quality and we will look much stronger. No good though if they’re not good quality starting players. I can see why we are waiting to sign good quality players who will enhance the squad for this year and beyond.

We are more than likely going to have access to 2 (at least) good props, a centre and a winger most weeks if required as part of the duel reg agreement.

Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:36 pm  

jonh wrote:

We are more than likely going to have access to 2 (at least) good props, a centre and a winger most weeks if required as part of the duel reg agreement.

I hope that’s the case but what worries me is if we hit a few injuries and it comes to the business and of the season and those players we have relied upon aren’t available. That’s the downside of dual registration.

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Re: Rumours thread : Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:38 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

I hope that’s the case but what worries me is if we hit a few injuries and it comes to the business and of the season and those players we have relied upon aren’t available. That’s the downside of dual registration.

That's not really how it would work for us. Dual reg gets us past some injuries, but it gives you time to recruit a permanent solution at the business end.....whether that's a fixed loan or an actual signing.