Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 5:50 am  

Seen a few names mentioned over the weekend.

Whitbread, Walters,Ashworth, O'Donnell, AJ Wallace and Sam Wood.

Hearing Evans might not be the last to go before his contract is up.

Interesting times......

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 6:03 am  

RockNRolla wrote:

Seen a few names mentioned over the weekend.

Whitbread, Walters,Ashworth, O'Donnell, AJ Wallace and Sam Wood.

Hearing Evans might not be the last to go before his contract is up.

Interesting times......

Whitbread, Walters, O'Donnell are no brainers. Haven't seen much of AJ Wallace but we were linked to him last season.

Can't see Rovers letting Wood go. More likely Ethan Ryan.

I wouldn't touch Ashworth with a barge pole. He's not very good, but it's mainly to do with his court case. Wouldn't want anyone like that at the club.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 6:51 am  

mwindass wrote:

Whitbread, Walters, O'Donnell are no brainers. Haven't seen much of AJ Wallace but we were linked to him last season.

Can't see Rovers letting Wood go. More likely Ethan Ryan.

I wouldn't touch Ashworth with a barge pole. He's not very good, but it's mainly to do with his court case. Wouldn't want anyone like that at the club.

Agree on Ashworth.

Be made up if we could bring in Whitbread, Walters and O'Donnell.
Hooker is interesting too. Could be potentially losing all 4 so will need to bring in 2 new ones if that's the case.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 7:16 am  

RockNRolla wrote:

Agree on Ashworth.

Be made up if we could bring in Whitbread, Walters and O'Donnell.
Hooker is interesting too. Could be potentially losing all 4 so will need to bring in 2 new ones if that's the case.

Can see us keeping Dwyer. We've got to be in for Leeming

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 7:33 am  

mwindass wrote:

Can see us keeping Dwyer. We've got to be in for Leeming

If Leeming is realistic and wants to come back to SL I'd have Leeming starting with Balmforth off the bench, if not I'd look to start Balmforth with Dwyer off the bench.

Balmforth should be ready next year, I'd like to see him given time this season, we're not going to make the playoffs and it's the only way we'll know if he's ready.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 7:54 am  

Yippee try yay wrote:

If Leeming is realistic and wants to come back to SL I'd have Leeming starting with Balmforth off the bench, if not I'd look to start Balmforth with Dwyer off the bench.

Balmforth should be ready next year, I'd like to see him given time this season, we're not going to make the playoffs and it's the only way we'll know if he's ready.

He wants to be a starting 9, part of the reason he fell out with RS was down to that.

He'd walk into our team at 9. He won't get a starting gig in the NRL. Saints have signed Daz Clarke by all accounts, unless Wigan want to move Powell on which I can't see, I'd hope we're at the front on the queue for him

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 8:21 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

In the last set of filed accounts the purchase hadn't gone through, so not a mortgage I think. £8m would seem a lot to owe Hudgell.

He famously claimed he was propping up the club at the rate of £500,000+ a season, so not too much to owe him, plus he probably had to fund Allam’s £1,000,000 “loan” after a few months. Funny how he spat his dummy out and threatened to walk away unless others helped out financially. If as you say he’s owed £8 million they probably aren’t as rich as Billy/Keefy claim?

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 8:39 am  

Yippee try yay wrote:

If Leeming is realistic and wants to come back to SL I'd have Leeming starting with Balmforth off the bench, if not I'd look to start Balmforth with Dwyer off the bench.

Balmforth should be ready next year, I'd like to see him given time this season, we're not going to make the playoffs and it's the only way we'll know if he's ready.

Highly unlikely Balmforth will be here. TS doesn't rate him.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 8:43 am  

I'd have Fitzgibbon and O Donnell over Whitbread, would give us two strong backrowers . Easier to get a non fed prop than a backrower IMO and there a couple available in such as Walters and Trout.

Hooker is an intresting one, really hope we keep Balmforth and also give him a fee games, look to sign Leeming, if not keep Dywer for another year.

Another option is to play Cator at hooker and start to introduce Armstrong at LF, who could be a star if we can keep him, giving him and Balmforth a couple of games once we are safe we help.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Tue May 02, 2023 9:02 am  

mwindass wrote:

He wants to be a starting 9, part of the reason he fell out with RS was down to that.

He'd walk into our team at 9. He won't get a starting gig in the NRL. Saints have signed Daz Clarke by all accounts, unless Wigan want to move Powell on which I can't see, I'd hope we're at the front on the queue for him

He'd be ideal for us as a starting 9, we need to get our hooker recruitment right for the next few years, it's been such a weak point for us for a while now. Especially given the prospect of losing all 4 hookers at the club in one off season.