Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:03 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

swift was pretty average for all but about 1 year of his stay

playing alongside Sutcliffe is hardly a wingers dream
Swift obviously decided he would make his own game by coming inside a lot and backing up the likes of Clifford which worked well
Sutcliffe was pants
Swift the best wing with genuine pace we have had for years apart from Ratu

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:39 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

and yet I saw a part of the same game where someone ran around him whilst he struggled to get anywhere near and was flailing his arms around in thin air.

The proof of the pudding will be in the eating (no pun intended) but I'll be amazed if he plays 40 games for us in those 3 years.

Like I said, 5 try assists in a team competing at the top looks pretty poor to me

Or it shows that quality players around him are sharing the work load and they’re not relying on one player to unlock a defence.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:39 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

and yet I saw a part of the same game where someone ran around him whilst he struggled to get anywhere near and was flailing his arms around in thin air.

The proof of the pudding will be in the eating (no pun intended) but I'll be amazed if he plays 40 games for us in those 3 years.

Like I said, 5 try assists in a team competing at the top looks pretty poor to me

Or it shows that quality players around him are sharing the work load and they’re not relying on one player to unlock a defence.

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:41 pm  

bonaire wrote:

playing alongside Sutcliffe is hardly a wingers dream
Swift obviously decided he would make his own game by coming inside a lot and backing up the likes of Clifford which worked well
Sutcliffe was pants
Swift the best wing with genuine pace we have had for years apart from Ratu

His season alongside Sutcliffe was his best at the club

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:42 pm  

Whatamidoinghere? wrote:

Or it shows that quality players around him are sharing the work load and they’re not relying on one player to unlock a defence.

Really?

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:42 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

His season alongside Sutcliffe was his best at the club

for the reason i pointed out

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:44 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

Really?

What’s funny about that? Or are you not able to back you opinion up once challenged?

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:29 pm  

Whatamidoinghere? wrote:

What’s funny about that? Or are you not able to back you opinion up once challenged?

You were being serious? Are you suggesting he's coasting then? I'm sure Steve mac must be overjoyed with that if he is although personally I think he's out of shape and out of form which is backed up by the stats. Failing to shine in a good team doesn't bide well for when he's in an average one next year.

My main gripe about Abdul isn't his ability it's his fitness and injury record,, like I say I'd be surprised if he ends up playing more than half of our matches as he's struggled to do anywhere in recent years

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:52 pm  

Whatamidoinghere? wrote:

Or it shows that quality players around him are sharing the work load and they’re not relying on one player to unlock a defence.

Disagree, Catalans biggest weakness is that their spine is really struggling to break down defences and create chances, Abdul, morgue and Fages are a big downgrade on May, Pearce and Tomkins

Re: Shopping list for 2025 : Fri Jun 07, 2024 5:17 am  

bonaire wrote:

Its still a bottom four squad
Thought we had turned a corner when Asiata was announced but the recruitment since then is bang average
Old Derek at Leigh must be laughing his socks off getting rid of Briscoe,Hardaker and Chamberlain to us
Filling a team with experienced average players and banking on three or four of our younger players coming through to play regular S/L football is not going to get fans flooding back to support the club in 2025

I think it's a team that could challenge for 6th, especially if we sign a hooker, think we will sign at least 4 more players to improve the squad.

Top 5, look good sides and squads, I don't see anything from the teams in 6th to 10th to say we couldn't finish above them next year. Maybe Salford, but they don't have the depth.

A lot with depend of the fitness of Abdul and Asiata along with how the new fullback and hooker go.

And obviously the most important factor the new coach and the staff he brings in.