Quote Tommy Duckfingers="Tommy Duckfingers"I think the point is valid, but the examples chosen are bad ones. For starters I reckon 2 out of the 3 would come with a fair old price tag on their head.
Pryce has failed to deliver most of the time with bigger clubs than ours and also with similar clubs to ours - whats to suggest he will stop being lazy for us? He would be just out type of winger, big and powerfull but his attitude appears to stink.
Cockayne is, as has been said, a just a knob - and whilst he can certainly play he has had too many chances and continues to be a nasty peice of work. If we are going to sign a bad boy I would rather we look at Tansey who I reckon has got more ability than any of the 3 players suggested.
Fox again is a good player, but any money wasted on a winger as we just dont use them. We need powerful wingers, ones who help us get out of our own half and take work off the forwards, show ponies arent a good fit for us.'"
Agreed. Don't think it's a case that we don't use them it's that we can't as we don't ever have the players to serve them. Fans have short memories, I've been watching Trinity for 20+ years and we have never really had success on the wings. This despite the fact that we have through the years had some really pacey and previously successful wingers on the books.
It's the same as the alleged Kear 5 drives and a kick. When Kear had Brough and a few others we played fairly expansive RL. Ditto the last long lasting Coach we had in Toppo.
Toppo has gained legendary status over time yet for the bulk of his tenure we were as dull as ditchwater and the only Winger who really had success under Toppo was Andy Wilson and he was no more than 10 tries a season. Kear like Toppo was always hamstrung by the sort of players he could afford or could keep hold of. It wasn't until Nigel Wright and Jeff Bagnall turned u that we really started to play attractive RL.
John Glancy was one of my fave players then but he simply couldn't pass a ball and he was not alone he just grafted. Our creative spark was Mark Conway who made Ben Jeffries look like Mr Consistent even though on his day Conway could be a brilliant player.
For me we need a pack first, pivot players next, then the link players and finally finishers - it's not new that's always been the formula. Give Kear or whoever the tools to do the job and they probably will eventually. If people actually think we are playing the kind of that Kear wants they are deluded. You can pehaps suggest his methods are wrong but his motive will be just fine.
I seriously doubt JK says to his players "Go out and make me look a cock and ruin my reputation and my future prospects please". Likewise I don't think Tommy Lee goes out and try to be a below average half back he just is.
People also say if Lee is so bad play a youngster - well actually Kear has in Wildie who people were clamouring for. Well I'm sorry but for me he's yet to prove he is anything like ready for SL. I think we need to be a little realistic about the players we have and are likely to get.
