Re: Kibula : Thu Jul 25, 2019 6:35 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Isn't the player on loan at his loanee club for the first month without recall then after that it's on a weekly/monthly basis with an immediate recall if required?
That would make Kibula available I reckon. It's the who from the club is watching the loan players that seems curious to me. Anyone, no one?
If that's the case that loan players are not watched by the club then isn't that half defeating the object of the loan?

Wigan come watch my u14s in Yorkshire...I highly doubt they will not go down the road to watch their own players.

Re: Kibula : Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:06 pm  

yep. as a minimum i would expect 'tapes' of the games to be sent back and would expect a member of the coaching staff to be attending matches where we have a number of loanees on the field

Re: Kibula : Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:25 pm  

Kibula will get plenty of game time next year, think the plan is for him to see rest of season out at Swinton then start in reserves next season, Kibula Bryne and Havard are all big lads and can play fair minutes so our pack will be ok next year

Re: Kibula : Mon Sep 09, 2019 12:01 pm  

Gone. I thought that he was progressing nicely as well.

Re: Kibula : Mon Sep 09, 2019 12:05 pm  

Levrier wrote:

Gone. I thought that he was progressing nicely as well.

Right call for me. You can’t keep them all and even if you could he hasn’t done enough to convince me he will make it at a club with Trophy ambitions.

I hope he proves me wrong and has a great career at Wire, but for me he just looks to lack the athleticism required.

Re: Kibula : Mon Sep 09, 2019 12:08 pm  

jonh wrote:

Right call for me. You can’t keep them all and even if you could he hasn’t done enough to convince me he will make it at a club with Trophy ambitions.

I hope he proves me wrong and has a great career at Wire, but for me he just looks to lack the athleticism required.

Have to agree haven’t seen much of him this season I’ll admit but I fear all he’s done has swapped one big team for another and will spend most of his time out on loan somewhere.

Hope I’m wrong as well would love to see him mature into a cracking player

Re: Kibula : Mon Sep 09, 2019 1:01 pm  

Sammy was in the same age group as my lad so ive seen him play loads of times and the general feeling was that despite his physical size he was a bit soft, i remember him playing against saints under 16s a few years ago and saints forwards murdered him , after a few hits he didnt want to know

Re: Kibula : Mon Sep 09, 2019 1:46 pm  

Redvee69 wrote:

Sammy was in the same age group as my lad so ive seen him play loads of times and the general feeling was that despite his physical size he was a bit soft, i remember him playing against saints under 16s a few years ago and saints forwards murdered him , after a few hits he didnt want to know

If he had Olie Partingtons aggression he would be a world class forward. He's probably one of the most skilful forwards I've seen but lacks that "mongrel"

Re: Kibula : Mon Sep 09, 2019 2:56 pm  

Haven't seen enough of him to comment, but the writing must have been on the wall for him with so many youngsters getting chances in the forwards this year and Kibula not getting a sniff. Only going to get harder from here.

Hope he goes well at Wire; the game doesn't have enough talent to be able to afford to waste potential where it exists.

Re: Kibula : Mon Sep 09, 2019 3:45 pm  

Huge frame and bulk but just doesn’t have the heart that Partington, Smithies and Byrne possess. Sad really as with that he’d be a world class forward. Good luck to him at Warrington.