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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"When Maguire came from Melbourne, Hodgson was Man of Steel, if he thought he was ageing and past it he probably kept his views to himself so as not to offend you guys about his views on the standard of competition he was now coaching in.
Tomkins is a different type of player with his own special attributes so the way he is used at fullback will be different from others, but the ideas of using a non-standard fullback at fullback is not new. I think fullback is probably the position on the field where you get most variety of different types of players being used there, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Fullback has the least amount of tackling and also when they join the line are not directly picked up by a man opposite so it's a way of introducing a shock weapon into the line and doing damage.
With us going back ten years there were brief experiments from Daryl Van de Velde and Steve Anderson of putting Briers at fullback, the idea being he would be fresh from not tackling and could chime into the line when he wanted and be an extra playmaker and hang back and do his long range kicking game from there, but it didn't work so both times it was soon ditched. But Van de Velde got some success out of sticking Allan Hunte there when we had Langer because many a time Langer would be close to the line and scuttling towards the outside then he'd whizz an inside ball to Hunte who would shoot through the middle at full pace and that was a try.
Ratchford is a slippery runner and probably the thought is he will be well used as a weapon from there rather than playing him stand off or centre but we will have to see, the jury is out on Ratchford IMO, when we signed Myler all the Salford fans told us Ratchford was the real talent not Myler and I quietly agreed with them so was pleased we got him but time will tell whether he goes on to be one of the best players in the league or is one of those that looked great as a young player and never kicked on. We signed Daryl Cardiss and Stuart Reardon who were both rated very highly in their early 20s and then tailed off.'"
What are you talking about? Nothing to do with Hodgson regarding Madge's decision about playing Tomkins at full back. He coached Billy Slater at Melbourne for years. Tomkins is more like Slater than any other player in the world today.
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| Quote Fatbelly="Fatbelly"And so it is, we are it the semis of the Cup.
Whilst in the league were are 2nd and Wigan, Huddersfield, Catalans and Hull have all got to come to the HJ.
Do the Math.......................'"
Tut Tut can't beat KR? Year of the wolves?
Heres whats gonna happen--
Wigan thrash the wires at the HJ old folks home. Do the math...... |
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| Quote Mash Butty="Mash Butty"
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Wigan thrash the wires at the HJ old folks home. Do the math......'"
What counts as a thrashing?
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"What counts as a thrashing?
How many points are you going to beat us by?'"
Have you forgotten last years CC quarter final???
Appears you have an ageing support as well as the playing staff.
A common sign of old age is forgetting things and losing the ability to add up.
A thrashing is beating a side by that many points that you dont need lee briers to kick a drop goal....
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"What counts as a thrashing?
How many points are you going to beat us by?'"
One would do me...
2013 Year of the wolfs.... |
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| Quote Mash Butty="Mash Butty"Have you forgotten last years CC quarter final???
Appears you have an ageing support as well as the playing staff.
A common sign of old age is forgetting things and losing the ability to add up.
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Sadly my memory is not what it once was, I'm sure Rogues will sympathise here....
I can only remember two fixtures into the past and the last time I remember Wigan coming to the Halliwell Jones we beat you 39-12 and the last time I remember going to the Pie Dome we beat you 22-20, fair play to Wigan that day you stayed with us till the end and made us realise we were in a game and that's all you can ask from your players. |
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"Sadly my memory is not what it once was, I'm sure Rogues will sympathise here....
I can only remember two fixtures into the past and the last time I remember Wigan coming to the Halliwell Jones we beat you 39-12 and the last time I remember going to the Pie Dome we beat you 22-20, fair play to Wigan that day you stayed with us till the end and made us realise we were in a game and that's all you can ask from your players.'"
Nope. All we can ask of our players is that they play to their potential. If they do, they will beat Wire, wherever we meet them this season. |
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| Quote Deano G="Deano G"Nope. All we can ask of our players is that they play to their potential. If they do, they will beat Wire, wherever we meet them this season.'"
I agree, but you could have said that under Maguire as well. Wigan have bottled it before against Warrington and they may well bottle it again. |
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"I agree, but you could have said that under Maguire as well. Wigan have bottled it before against Warrington and they may well bottle it again.'"
Spot on, i can see our whole season start to unravel as we cross the whitewash to play Warrington... |
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The league leaders shield could be wrapped up by the time we visit the HJ.
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