Ackroyd : Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:26 pm  

Says in the LE that Halifax are looking at signing him after we alerted them to his availability having released him.

I thought he was a player that was earmarked to progress to the first team, but not seen enough of him to know how he was progressing

Re: Ackroyd : Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:45 pm  

Yeah, heard good things about him. Looks like we will be losing one of our 3 halfs and id have thought if we are looking to the future that Finny will be the one to make way so keeping Hampshire as our young project?

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:34 am  

Tricky2309 wrote:

Says in the LE that Halifax are looking at signing him after we alerted them to his availability having released him.

I thought he was a player that was earmarked to progress to the first team, but not seen enough of him to know how he was progressing

It's a shame, I really liked him - but and it's always been at the back of my mind regarding him - oh my word he's small and unfortunately unlike Burrows he doesn't quite have that electric pace. You'd have to fear for him in a full on SL game.

oh well.

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:39 am  

From what I saw of him he had an outstanding kicking game but was too small for SL, might go well in the Championship (kinda like Gareth Moore).

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:35 pm  

vastman wrote:

It's a shame, I really liked him - but and it's always been at the back of my mind regarding him - oh my word he's small and unfortunately unlike Burrows he doesn't quite have that electric pace. You'd have to fear for him in a full on SL game.

oh well.

I remember a certain Aussie halfback once labelled `Too small` he did not have electrifying pace either, in fact he was also labelled too slow to play professionally and released from multiple clubs at a young age. Now described by some as the greatest player in the history of Rugby League.

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:38 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

I remember a certain Aussie halfback once labelled `Too small` he did not have electrifying pace either, in fact he was also labelled too slow to play professionally and released from multiple clubs at a young age. Now described by some as the greatest player in the history of Rugby League.

Tim Smith was a brilliant player and quite possibly my favourite ever but I wouldn't class him as the greatest player in the history of rugby league...

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:45 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

I remember a certain Aussie halfback once labelled `Too small` he did not have electrifying pace either, in fact he was also labelled too slow to play professionally and released from multiple clubs at a young age. Now described by some as the greatest player in the history of Rugby League.

So

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:48 pm  

vastman wrote:

So

I think HV's point is never judge a book by it's cover? Could say that about any player though I guess.

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:19 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

I remember a certain Aussie halfback once labelled `Too small` he did not have electrifying pace either, in fact he was also labelled too slow to play professionally and released from multiple clubs at a young age. Now described by some as the greatest player in the history of Rugby League.

It's a big call to label him (I presume Alfie?) the greatest ever. Personally I don't get that as the game has changed so much over the decades that a great player now may not even have made it years ago!

Re: Ackroyd : Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:25 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

I remember a certain Aussie halfback once labelled `Too small` he did not have electrifying pace either, in fact he was also labelled too slow to play professionally and released from multiple clubs at a young age. Now described by some as the greatest player in the history of Rugby League.

Do we get three guess's ?