Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:23 pm  

All credibility was lost when you put hard running 2nd row and Cox in the same sentence.

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:26 pm  

SirStan wrote:

EU passport surely? Bundy would be the biggest issue.

Fritzl could bring his own youth team with him as well

Are things so bad you would consider playing corpses?

Some rum characters in there also, but I suppose in comparison it's an upgrade on the evil monsters you have now.

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:28 pm  

hull smallears wrote:

Are things so bad you would consider playing corpses?
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I'm considering an approach for Andrew Lincoln to coach the team.

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:29 pm  

Oh I forgot to mention Craig Hall, a kicker a Centre, stand off and a winger. we could do with him in our squad right now.

Cox played well at second row when he was played there.

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:34 pm  

SirStan wrote:

Well if it's entirely hypothetical:

Out:
Cockayne
Sio
Dixon
Shaw
Salter
Minns
Thornley
Marsh
Kelly
Campese
Allgood
Lunt
Tilse
Walker
Green
Mulhearn
Greenwood
Horne
Larroyer
Boudebza
Donaldson
Clarkson

In:
Greg Inglis
Jonathan Thurston
Rachel Riley
Dom Jolly
Frank Sidebottom
Ted Bundy
Joseph Fritzl
Len Ganly
Bob Todd
Rob Darcy
The Plague.

Obviously, with such a dramatic change in personnel mid season we may need a while to bed them all in and it could take a few games before we decide on the best position for Riley (insert smutty comment here).

I can see your thinking Stan but again a little unbalanced.

I'd move Riley to accounts. Fritzl to youth development/family liaison. Todd to contracts, Bundy to manage the cheerleaders. Sidebottom to pre match entertainment.
The plague goes on a free transfer to the KC. This plague will initially terrify them and they'll initially believe it to be the end of mankind. After two rounds they'll realise it's something more akin to the common cold.
Given current strategy at the club I'd line up Gandhi and Larry Grayson for the second row. We need the knight from The Holy Grail at half back and any scrote on an ASBO at full back

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:40 pm  

Grimsby Red wrote:

Nobody can seriously want to get rid of Kelly, on his day he is class but he can't do it by himself, so please give him a break.
Salter isn't brilliant but he doesn't let us down, hardly ever gives away a penalty and he's solid in defense.
Dixon needs better one to one coaching for when he is running the ball in to defenders and for his tackle technique.
Tilse and Allgood are both average for overseas 'stars' and should be replaced.
Marsh is young and learning the game, so get off his back.
Horne and Cockayne are over the hill and should be replaced.

One of our biggest problems is the lack of hard running second rowers, so let me mention three possibilities: Mariano, Cox and Ollett ( we have let these go when we should have kept them, so think again about Marsh and Salter)
A prop that we should have pushed the boat out to keep is Scott Taylor.

Campese will need to make up his own mind about retirement, Lunt was definitely a mistake to make up for letting Josh Hodgson go when we could have improved him.

Our problems come from having novice coaches who can't/don't improve the young players we bring through. We also offer short term contracts to our homegrown talent and then let those contracts run down before offering new deals, just like what we have done to James Green.

Surely in the case of Marsh and Salter, their perceived and actual lack of attacking capability lets them down, especially the former. We need more than just decent defenders in these core positions, especially given our current team inability to mount creative attacking threats, pose questions of our opposition in attack and generate sustained attacking pressure.

With no Kelly and no Campese in the team, there are likely to be very few Rovers supporters who will say - "that's OK, Matty Marsh will step up and create our chances, kick the opposition into next week, manage us across the park and lead the team by example." Maybe Matty's Mum and Dad.

Salts is just bang average or below.

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:43 pm  

Grimsby Red wrote:

Oh I forgot to mention Craig Hall, a kicker a Centre, stand off and a winger. we could do with him in our squad right now.

Cox played well at second row when he was played there.

At least stans post was realistic, this on the other hand is so ridiculous its stopped being funny.

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:47 pm  

barham red wrote:

At least stans post was realistic, this on the other hand is so ridiculous its stopped being funny.

Ouch.

True, but ouch all the same.

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 7:47 pm  

Grimsby Red wrote:

Oh I forgot to mention Craig Hall, a kicker a Centre, stand off and a winger. we could do with him in our squad right now.

Cox played well at second row when he was played there.

I was maybe being flippant with my last post but Craig Hall can't get in a team in front of Miller who is probably the worst half back to ever play in SL. He was average to poor for us before and has gone backwards at Wakey

Re: Current Squad. Who should continue to wear the shirt? : Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:06 pm  

Grimsby Red wrote:

Nobody can seriously want to get rid of Kelly, on his day he is class but he can't do it by himself, so please give him a break.
Salter isn't brilliant but he doesn't let us down, hardly ever gives away a penalty and he's solid in defense.
Dixon needs better one to one coaching for when he is running the ball in to defenders and for his tackle technique.
Tilse and Allgood are both average for overseas 'stars' and should be replaced.
Marsh is young and learning the game, so get off his back.
Horne and Cockayne are over the hill and should be replaced.

One of our biggest problems is the lack of hard running second rowers, so let me mention three possibilities: Mariano, Cox and Ollett ( we have let these go when we should have kept them, so think again about Marsh and Salter)
A prop that we should have pushed the boat out to keep is Scott Taylor.

Campese will need to make up his own mind about retirement, Lunt was definitely a mistake to make up for letting Josh Hodgson go when we could have improved him.

Our problems come from having novice coaches who can't/don't improve the young players we bring through. We also offer short term contracts to our homegrown talent and then let those contracts run down before offering new deals, just like what we have done to James Green.

Any Professional Sportsperson who comes back from pre season visibly overweight as Kelly simply cannot perform at their peak if they're not in peak condition; people need to accept they will get slated by the fans as its us that are paying for all the burgers he is clearly eating.
Dixon isn't good enough.
Cockayne as above.
Lunt injury prone but on a long term contract
Campese injury prone
Tilse playing better than last season but still bang average.
Horne is having a mare of a season so far.
Our 2nd row is shocking in attack and defence, Blair is getting on, but was signed as a centre/6 anyway, iv'e mentioned Horne, Larroyer had 1 good season on loan then has been average.

Realistically we cannot replace the full squad, but need to replace key positions....definitely 1,6,7,11 & 12

Time for people to let go of sentiment and to embrace reality.