Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:20 am  

Played well for Canberra until he was injured

Re: Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:26 am  

Watched NRL try time last night, they mentioned him during the Canberra game and said he took a pay cut to join them and is on considerably less than Blake Austin and Aidan Sezer

Re: Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:19 pm  

Was sorry to see him leave, didn't quite work out but showed his class in places last year.

Re: Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:38 pm  

Might have won a couple of games more this year if he was still with us as he definitely won us a few last year with great halfback play. Just never settled properly..

Re: Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 5:10 pm  

Don't think he ever let us down, didn't seem to get the game time.

Re: Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 5:29 pm  

Was he not the only one to kick a 40/20 for us last year?

Re: Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:48 pm  

I bet A bit of sunshine and lovely surroundings goes along way, just a thought.

Re: Sam Williams : Thu Apr 05, 2018 10:02 pm  

Any HB coming from down under is expected to be akin to Wally Lewis.
Williams got on with his work quietly but, as usual, the masses expected an absolute world beater and he could never be that good.

He isn't the first and wont be the last HB that cant live up to the unreasonable expectations put on him in some quarters.

Good luck to him.

Re: Sam Williams : Fri Apr 06, 2018 5:14 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

He isn't the first and wont be the last HB that cant live up to the unreasonable expectations put on him in some quarters.

Good luck to him.

Initial expectations and final decisions by our coaching staff at the end of the day, surely?

Re: Sam Williams : Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:58 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Initial expectations and final decisions by our coaching staff at the end of the day, surely?

I'm not sure really.
Chesters quote at the time was "Sam will bring a wealth of experience and a good kicking game,"
"He is a great signing for the club, a big coup and a number of Super League clubs were chasing his signature."

And for the fans, this makes him the next Wally Lewis, which he was never going to be.

He certainly had some great games for us and went under the radar with numbers of assists but he did little for Catalan in his short spell there and when expectations are so high, the player is on a hiding to nothing.

The real issue here is the scarcity of decent halves and the top #6 & #7 just dont come over here or, they cost more that clubs like Trinity can afford.