Re: Squad 2020 : Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:15 am  

TheDreadnought wrote:

Where was the massive hole?

Cover at HB, pretty obvious even to you.

Re: Squad 2020 : Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:40 am  

Fishermanscap wrote:

Back on topic, it’s shaping up well, retaining Hampshire has filled a massive hole imo.

Two priorities for me now is a hooker and another prop.

Be very interesting if we start the season with a quota spot free. Sometimes you can pick up the best deals mid season as we did with Fifita and Salford did with Hastings. I’d have no problem with leaving a space open.

At the end of the day it’s not compulsory to have a full set of quota players. It’s not like they always work out anyway.

I hear there is a quota player, prop forward been offered to all SL clubs from Hudds, with them subsidising his wages for next season.

Not too sure if we have any interest, he has been pretty anonymous over the last few seasons but was very well rated when he first came over.

Re: Squad 2020 : Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:56 am  

Yes, HB was obvious to me.

Would have been a real gamble going into the season with only Brough and Miller.

We gambled in 2016 with Finn and Miller, but got away with it, as Craig Hall filled in at the end of the season.

A mate of mine (Hull FC fan) said to me a couple of seasons back, that ideally, you need to be able to pick 2 separate teams, to have a really competetive side. As we saw this season just gone with injuries, I don't think he was far wrong, certainly starting 13 anyway

Re: Squad 2020 : Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:00 am  

homme vaste wrote:

I hear there is a quota player, prop forward been offered to all SL clubs from Hudds, with them subsidising his wages for next season.

Not too sure if we have any interest, he has been pretty anonymous over the last few seasons but was very well rated when he first came over.

No thank you. Don’t want to do Hudds any more favours after the last player we got from them.

Re: Squad 2020 : Fri Oct 18, 2019 9:03 am  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Yes, HB was obvious to me.

Would have been a real gamble going into the season with only Brough and Miller.

We gambled in 2016 with Finn and Miller, but got away with it, as Craig Hall filled in at the end of the season.

A mate of mine (Hull FC fan) said to me a couple of seasons back, that ideally, you need to be able to pick 2 separate teams, to have a really competetive side. As we saw this season just gone with injuries, I don't think he was far wrong, certainly starting 13 anyway

I would agree but going into last season I think we actually had that looking at the squad, lets not forget we actually ran a reserve grade last season as well, I think we were just unbelievably unlucky with the amount of injuries in certain positions.

Does anyone know how the structure for the reserve grade will look next season? With every team mandated to have one, will they almost run a reserve grade SL? Or will the fixtures just be as and when as they were this season?

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Re: Squad 2020 : Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:15 pm  

So this is the squad so far for next year:
Tom Johnstone
Bill Tupou
Reece Lyne
Ben Jones-Bishop
Jacob Miller
Danny Brough
David Fifita
Kyle Wood
Matty Ashurst
Craig Kopczak
Tinirau Arona
Joe Arundal
James Batchelor
Max Jowitt
George King
Jordan Crowther
Kelepi Tanginoa
Ryan Hampshire
Joe Westerman
Alex Walker
Chris Green
Ryan Atkins
Lee Kershaw
Titus Gwaze
Jack Croft
Yusuf Aydin
Connor Bailey
Oliver Greensmith
Josh Wood

Re: Squad 2020 : Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:09 pm  

It's Josh Wood

Re: Squad 2020 : Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:26 pm  

Our Hookers, Woody 1 and Woody 2

Re: Squad 2020 : Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:31 pm  

homme vaste wrote:

I hear there is a quota player, prop forward been offered to all SL clubs from Hudds, with them subsidising his wages for next season.

Not too sure if we have any interest, he has been pretty anonymous over the last few seasons but was very well rated when he first came over.

Ikahihifo? if so not on the past couple of years. Saying that, he's a strange one because before that he looked one of the best Props in the league and most teams would have signed him, with his big meters and tackle busts but I'm not sure what's happened the past 2 years, there's certainly a good player in there and it's not as if he's got old , he's still only 28.

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Re: Squad 2020 : Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:48 pm  

phe13 wrote:

It's Josh Wood

Sorry. I even checked that too.