Why did Jukes sign James Green ?

I'd prefer to leave it at a healthy rugby league discussion. If the "confused dot com" was a trigger, that was for the coaching team. Either way, the stats are enlightening don't you think? Almost a quarter of the squad pushed aside and labelled troublemakers or not good enough. Like I said in another thread, what is the coaching team communicating to the players to get such a "negative" response?

Interesting times ahead, stay up or the inevitable.

The majority on the forum seem to think Green was the worst signing since David Stephenson, but I actually thought he did OK when given a chance early on, seemed to make good yards. New club, new team, new game plan, etc, surely consistency breeds growth. Bottom line, Derek must be scratching his head when paying the wages for the guys not playing.

Those fixtures could attract some really good crowds & I don't believe it would be the end of the world for Catalans .....

especially as the RFL will auto re-admit them into SL2019 !

For me, James Green has to fall into the category of "Not given a proper chance". The odd 20 minutes spell in an odd game or two, doesn't fairly prove anything. On the rare occasions when he was selected, he did no worse than any of the other forwards.

For me, he looked ok for first one or two carries, but was then knackered. His defence was too weak as well.

That said, he should be given a chance to redeem himself on Friday, so we can wrap a forward up in cotton wool ahead of mpg. If someone like HH was to get injured this week, then we'd be staring down the barrel

Agreed.

With the current situation I think the barrel is already loaded and we're well and truly looking straight at it - any more injuries like you have highlighted above pulls the trigger

Injuries are an excuse, period. A third into the season when 12 first team regulars were injured, they may let you use that one. But with approx 23/24 squad members available all handpicked by the coaching team... Nah, doesn't wash. Stop focusing on what you don't want and get the boys to believe and motivated and win 2 more games.

Correct.

I'm afraid that is James Green summed up perfectly. He was the same with us yet a lot of our fans saw no wrong in him as he was one of ours. He was very rarely picked when we had a full strength squad as he will look the part, big run, big hit but then he will miss the next 3 or four tackles and disappear until he's spelled again. He plays the minutes of an impact prop without the impact.

Reckon regardless of how you do in the MPG he'll be in the championship next year

Well so far so good. The last prediction is just a mere formality. Have faith..

And i replied then with.... Good man.

You certainly did Cokey, then it all went off at a tangent.