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| Quote Builth Wells Wire="Builth Wells Wire"But we did release Sid Domic to sign John Wilshere & Chris Leikvoll from St George Illawarra.'"
Both were off quota. Leikvoll had a UK passport (check out his profile) and Wilshere was KOLPAK |
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| Quote Wires71="Wires71"I think you miss my point. Having players (maybe we have 3) that other sides covet is very different than signing players deemed no longer good enough for their club.'"
What were your thoughts when we signed Brett Hodgson? |
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| Quote Wires71="Wires71"I think the point being made is that with careful succession planning you don't need to have to buy 8 news players in one off season and be subject to what's available. Instead project where the replacements are going to be needed on a 2 to 3 year time frame and plan your recruitment around that with 2/3 changes per season.
Bailey is a good example. Leeds no longer deem him good enough for them and get shut. We snap him up after failing to get our real targets. Result is we are buying players that are not good enough for those teams we aspire to compete with. How is that going to work - already we are at a disadvantage.'"
Sorry "failing to get our real targets"? who were our real targets and why did we not get them? |
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Quote marshman777="marshman777"Sorry "failing to get our real targets"? who were our real targets and why did we not get them?'"
Real targets
Ukuma Ta'ai
Jake Lillyman
As reported www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... gn_a_prop/
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Jordan Cox
Ryan Bailey
As announced by the club
I have no idea why we did not achieve the signings of the higher calibre players. |
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Quote marshman777="marshman777"Sorry "failing to get our real targets"? who were our real targets and why did we not get them?'"
Real targets
Ukuma Ta'ai
Jake Lillyman
As reported www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... gn_a_prop/
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Jordan Cox
Ryan Bailey
As announced by the club
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| Quote getdownmonkeyman="getdownmonkeyman"What were your thoughts when we signed Brett Hodgson?'"
Wasn't Hodgson only offered a 1 year deal by Hudds? So he wasn't deemed "not good enough" for the subsequent season. |
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| Quote mark_m="mark_m"Wasn't that to do with the overseas quotas? I seem to recall it was a choice between him and Appo and at the time Appo had just been named in the dream team.'"
Yes, it was a choice of two out of Burns, Domic and Appo and we made the wrong one in hindsight.
I guess the thinking was that Burns and Domic were similar players, and we had signed Forshaw and had high hopes for Paul Noone at the time, so Appo gave us something different with his pace.
Actually even if it came down to a choice of Burns or Domic I'd have chosen Domic, just about. |
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| Quote Wires71="Wires71"Wasn't Hodgson only offered a 1 year deal by Hudds? So he wasn't deemed "not good enough" for the subsequent season.'"
This argument about a player being deemed "not good enough" by their previous club is more about the judgement of that club.
I wonder what the St George Illawarra fans think of Mike Cooper.
Warrington agreed to release him so he could sign for the Dragons. If he was not deemed good enough for Warrington, how on earth could anyone think he was good enough to play in the NRL? |
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I seem to recall Appo being asked to move to fullback following Briers return from a long term injury it didn't go down too well with Appo, understandable as Appo was stronger, quicker, and could kick goals, if my memory is right then it turned out we kept an unhappy player, but no way could you play Briers at fullback.
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| Quote ricominciare="ricominciare"....but no way could you play Briers at fullback.'"
That was not the best coaching move way back when. |
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| Quote ricominciare="ricominciare"I seem to recall Appo being asked to move to fullback following Briers return from a long term injury it didn't go down too well with Appo, understandable as Appo was stronger, quicker, and could kick goals, if my memory is right then it turned out we kept an unhappy player, but no way could you play Briers at fullback.'"
Appo came back from that off season out of shape and got injured early on and then missed a lot of the next season. He was always strapped up and didn't have the explosive pace of old.
Appo could have been a really good player given his natural speed and he had a lot of ability with the ball as well. You wonder whether a super focused professional Appo could have been a top State of Origin and Kangaroo player, up with guys like Inglis, Hodges, Hayne etc as a freakishly talented athlete. |
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"Appo came back from that off season out of shape and got injured early on and then missed a lot of the next season. He was always strapped up and didn't have the explosive pace of old.
Appo could have been a really good player given his natural speed and he had a lot of ability with the ball as well. You wonder whether a super focused professional Appo could have been a top State of Origin and Kangaroo player, up with guys like Inglis, Hodges, Hayne etc as a freakishly talented athlete.'"
Cheers for jogging my memory, I remember now Appo was out of condition on his return and his form didn't carry on, am I right in that he was wanted to play fullback by Cullen but he wasn't having it hence his poor condition/attitude, in truth I think Appo would have been as much a waste at fullback as would Briers, we had two players for one position but on the previous seasons form I feel Appo deserved the spot and may have returned in a better condition, it would then have been there for Briers to regain it. |
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