Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 5:12 am  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

On the plus side it'll be funny reading jools' sudden conversion to being a Connor fan again after six years of moaning about him.

Don't worry, she'll be on hand to tell us how unbelievably turd Wardle is

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 5:19 am  

Hoy
Swift
Sutcliffe
Wardle
Mitch/Mcinhtosh
Trueman
Abdul or overseas 7
Sao
Dywer
Fash
Carlos
Savelio
Overseas LF or Cator

If we do sign Wardle then I would look to use Sutcliffe or Carlos in the backrow and then sign either an overseas 7 or LF, depending on if we can sign a UK based 7 (Russell or Abdul).

Satae
Lane/Longstaff
Brown
Lovodua

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:25 am  

Think I would feel differently about Jake going if we still had the same regime as last year.
We’ve now got someone in though who is proven as a head coach, and could be a catalyst for a lot of positive changes at the club.
He would have known the Jake situation before taking him the job, and if he’s comfortable with things, then I am as well.
I’m confident they’ll do what is best for the club. Jake was probably going to leave soon anyway. If he’s not happy, get something, or somebody, for him and move on.
No doubt there’s even more changes on the horizon.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:43 am  

If we've got a proper number 7 in the pipeline I'll feel a bit more relaxed. Hope that's the case.

Also if we've signed Wardle, Griffin must be on the way out?

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:58 am  

As much as I'm a big Jake fan I can see why the club would look to offload, Hoy will go 1, Trueman 6/7, but we need another half and definately a 2nd rower, been told Jake needs a minor operation and will miss pre season and start of the season plus maybe he's already told the club he won't be signing a new deal so why not offload now, but need a quality replacement Macca and Lover not the answer. I'll renew my pass regardless always have always will we've had worst sides down the years people forgot that.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 6:59 am  

mwindass wrote:

If we've got a proper number 7 in the pipeline I'll feel a bit more relaxed. Hope that's the case.

Also if we've signed Wardle, Griffin must be on the way out?

The team did look unbalanced as it stood. Hoy looks a full back all day long, and a Trueman / Connor half back combination didn’t look right to me.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:00 am  

mwindass wrote:

If we've got a proper number 7 in the pipeline I'll feel a bit more relaxed. Hope that's the case.

Also if we've signed Wardle, Griffin must be on the way out?

If we can sign a good 7, we will also be better balanced, as others have said they aren't sure Hoy, Trueman and Connor would work.

My other fear was playing Connor at 1 and Hoy at 6, which would take away Hoy's best features IMO.

What every way you look at it, if we sign a decent 7, we will be in a much better place than at the start of 2022 in the 1,6,7 and 9 positions.

Another option (which I'm not sure about) would be to sign Walker and play Hoy and Trueman at halfback.

Don't think Will Smith did enough to be considered an option.

Also if we can add in a high quality young centre then it may not be as bad a deal as I first thought.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:02 am  

mwindass wrote:

If we've got a proper number 7 in the pipeline I'll feel a bit more relaxed. Hope that's the case.

Also if we've signed Wardle, Griffin must be on the way out?

Griffin’s agent has been shopping him around the last few weeks. Honestly thought Radders would have snapped him up for Cas.

If we are getting Wardle, can get Longstaff and then a Big back rower and a 7 then with who we have already signed it would be fantastic recruitment.

All big IF’S though.

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:10 am  

[quote="Ellam"]been told Jake needs a minor operation and will miss pre season and start of the season.

I’ve heard the same. Clark was saying after the Toulouse game that he (Connor) was struggling and looking like he would need an operation therefore would miss the start of pre season.
This is when he told people how happy he was at the club and was buying a house in Hull.
It’s never dull at this club

Re: Shopping List 2023 : Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:24 am  

If we could get someone of the quality of Clifford or Clune in (unlikely) at 7, I'd bite my own hand off.
Hoy at 1 and either of them alongside Trueman would be such a breath of fresh air. Young, apeedy and dynamic.
Let's be honest, Connor isn't anyone you're ever gonna be able to build a team around and with the departure of this seasons other muppet two halves maybe its just time for a new start and different direction?