Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:25 pm  

I thought that the club had left the decision with Kyle Amor as to who he sign for next year? Hopefully a deal can be done for Amor to stay at wakey.

Having to replace Amor, Moriano, Johnson would be a nightmare. Hopefully some contracts can be drawn up and signed.

Please let us have a settled offseason with few departures and only a couple of signings which add to the team.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:43 pm  

kingsway cat wrote:

I hope Andy Glover has his blankety blank cheque book and pen available because it would take a whole lot of money to fill those 3 players departure.

IF the rumors turn out to be true they'd be tricky to replace no doubt, not impossible though but we'd have those 3 salaries plus maybe 3 overs salaries who will leave to put to new players.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:49 pm  

O meley, Kirke, Mason are coming in.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:55 pm  

Bloody hope that pudding Kirke isn't coming, to be honest O Meley would be a good signing especially if we can keep him on the park but the other 2 wouldn't be any improvement on what we've already got.

Would prefer to add O Meley to what we've got but life's never as easy as that.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:14 pm  

Any player should be given a chance under different coaching and surroundings who knows?

Look at Andy ralieigh as an example. I thought we would be getting a solid prop but he has been (amongst others) top draw.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:39 pm  

I wish some championship club would hurry up and announce that they've signed Mason on for next season.
Kirke and O'Meley would be good additions but I'd not like them as replacements for any of this years forwards.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:29 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Any player should be given a chance under different coaching and surroundings who knows?

Look at Andy ralieigh as an example. I thought we would be getting a solid prop but he has been (amongst others) top draw.

Always thought Raleigh was a decent layer tbf, others felt different.

They should and will be given a chance but it' would be wrong of me to suddenly start rating a player just because there coming here.

For me it's about improving the squad year on year and if we lose the names mentioned and bring in the others mentioned I don't think we will have tbh, O meley apart if fit and firing. Like Wollo said above wouldn't mind them as new additions but not as replacements.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:38 pm  

I like O'Meley - old school bully who'll punch holes in defences and line up opposition players for some rough treatment. We'd have to get (and keep) him fit though.

Mason just needs to be coached to play within his capabilities - forget the 'enforcer' nonsense and just run it in straight and hard - the kind of forward who can keep the opposition honest.

Kirke is a unit, but I haven't seen enough to know how I'd feel if he did come to us.

The outstanding performances of Amor and Raleigh have spoiled us and put us in a position to be sniffy about players like Mason and Kirke, who would have walked into most of our teams of recent years.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:44 am  

My main concern with such replacements would be their age (they are all decent good players - I've never been a big fan of O meley, but someone who has played SOO and for Aus can't be bad, Mason looked very good a year or two ago last I paid attention to him, and I can't really comment on Kirke). None of them are quite at the end of their careers, but they are all towards it. The three named as potentially leaving are all younger, and have more potential to improve.

Perhaps more importantly, our current forwards been putting in some long stints, and I'm not sure a pack that is all 30+ would be able to maintain that workrate over a season. Then again, the strange success our coaching and conditioning team have had in attempting to turn Lauititi into an 80 minute man show wonders can be achieved.

Re: Next Season - New signings? : Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:15 am  

Does Amor have the call Leeds or Wakey? if so my gut feeling is he will commit to Wakey and 1st team rugby by the sound of it if he picks Leeds they will sell him to another club anyway Wakefield are on the up Aiton would not have signed if not and for my money Amor will stay

As for Mason save a whole lot of money and gamble on Alex Walmsley problem is he could be Cas bound

Big Frankie would be a big miss come on get him signed up

Tony,Morton,Hyde,Davey,James will all be heading for the exit door maybe Southern and John and Wildie