[Chris71]

Re: Pre-season. : Sun Dec 10, 2023 8:35 pm  

UllFC wrote:

Club saying 7k passes sold which has been hit slightly earlier than last year. Overall we sold 8.3k last year so on track to hit that.

Good news!

Excellent news and support from the clubs fans which in all honesty is likely to be majority of what would be classed as hard core fans. Hopefully the turnaround of players can start to show the clubs supporters be it fans or commercial sponsors some form of repayment for the efforts.

I’m also pleased for AP that the club has been backed so well again as regardless of what some may say, without him the club would be in a much poorer state.

Hopefully we can beat the membership numbers of last season and if we can get off to a decent start we can increase the pay on the gate numbers each week.

Re: Pre-season. : Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:36 am  

I'm getting my two when i get my Christmas pay, can buy passes online again from today, be nice to see us get 8500

Re: Pre-season. : Mon Dec 11, 2023 9:36 am  

Great effort to surpass 7K this early, I know a lot of people who don't sort out their passes till after Christmas/new Year so I think we have a good chance of bettering last years total.

Re: Pre-season. : Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:32 am  

Bit concerned about the Cator interview in the HDM today, says that the play is for Cator to move to hooker when Houghton goes off. This should not be happening, when Houghton goes off we need someone with a bit of spark, not someone who has no attacking threat and is there just to tackle. We have a dew better options at 9 than Cator and based on last season he shouldn't be in the 17 anyway.

Really hope we don't waste the potential talent Balmforth has.

Re: Pre-season. : Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:53 am  

Only way i can see it is if we have some sort of injury disaster during a game. Unless Smith manages to transform Cator into some world class 9 (which won't happen).

We'll have Brown, Smith, Houghton, Balmforth and Hodgson. No need for Cator to move to hooker.

Cator does mention Balmforth as a possible 13. If he's on top of his fitness I hope he gets a decent crack next year

Re: Pre-season. : Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:58 am  

Nu Brown posted on his Instagram he'll be heading out in 2 weeks.

Looks like he'll be ready to hit the ground running too, I've never seen so many fitness updates from a player in pre season

Re: Pre-season. : Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:25 am  

Seems bizarre that we would be trying to slot Cator in as interchange hooker when we have a New Zealand International interchange hooker in the squad.
I know he most likely will play in the halves at the start of the year, but once Trueman is fit again I'd expect us to line up as

Walker
Hoy
Trueman
Houghton

Brown

Not to mention Balmforth, Smith and Hodgson who can cover hooker at least until Trueman is fit again.

Re: Pre-season. : Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:40 am  

mwindass wrote:

Nu Brown posted on his Instagram he'll be heading out in 2 weeks.

Looks like he'll be ready to hit the ground running too, I've never seen so many fitness updates from a player in pre season

He's a machine isn't he

Re: Pre-season. : Thu Dec 14, 2023 10:10 am  

If that's the case with Joe Cator, what was the point of signing Morgan Smith?

Re: Pre-season. : Thu Dec 14, 2023 11:14 am  

still no genuine 7 in the squad