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| Would be interested to know what has happened here. Oliver Holmes is a good player, over his time at Cas he performed well fairly consistently, though had issues with injuries I seem to remember. Quality wise I think he was good enough to hold a spot down in our back row. I think he will do well at Leigh if that is where he ends up, and it looks like they are pulling a decent squad together (before the IMG drawbridge comes up).
Powell knew exactly what type of player he was getting with Holmes, knew his strengths, weaknesses, what he would bring to the culture / dressing room etc. Similarly with Powell Holmes knew exactly what he was coming into coach wise and you would presume they had plenty of chats whilst still at Cas over how and where Powell wanted him to play and what changes he expected to make at Warrington, I expect he would have wanted Holmes & Mata'utia to be driving that.
There are risks that all signings don't always work out, but with the signings of Mata'utia & Holmes especially both sides should have been well aware what they were getting. What went wrong with Holmes? Relationship breakdown with the coach mid-season when he was telling them all off? We didn't give him time off to work on his tattoos? Thought he could cope with playing on the right but couldn't? He was there as the fall guy so Powell could show he was ruthless?
Looks like we'll have James Harrison / Nicholson doing the same job for much less in 2022 and it looks like we need to spend the cap elsewhere so I think it probably is the right move. The fact we can afford to do this means it looks more chaotic than it is, most other teams would have just sat with players till their contract ran out before they made the changes, I do think as others have said though the fact we can afford to make these mistakes, seems to mean we make them more often.
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| When did Leigh become the Leopards? And where have I been?
Holmes isn't on loan either. It's a one-year contract. Also surprised that we've lost Gannon. Maybe we just have too many forwards now.
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| Have you seen the shirt and badge for the Leopards rebrand? Even specsavers have tweeted giving them stick, if it isn't a wind up for publicity its hiarious!
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| Quote: easyWire "When did Leigh become the Leopards? And where have I been?
Holmes isn't on loan either. It's a one-year contract. Also surprised that we've lost Gannon. Maybe we just have too many forwards now.'"
I wonder if we paid out a proportion of his remaining 2 year contract with us?
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| Quote: Wires71 "I wonder if we paid out a proportion of his remaining 2 year contract with us?'"
I would imagine so. But I'm sure that won't count on the cap as it's a pay off.
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| Quote: Leikvolls_Profile "Have you seen the shirt and badge for the Leopards rebrand? Even specsavers have tweeted giving them stick, if it isn't a wind up for publicity its hiarious!
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I don't know why I'm poking fun at that. We haven't even seen ours yet. Could be much worse.
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