I see your now interested in him are you did your scouts miss him

Agreed
The big (absolutely massive) difference is that the youngsters coming through are of SL quality and not just "having to step up".
Hall and Murphy have been the two "finds" of the season for us, they have both filled some very big boots (Johnstone and Tupou), which is one hell of an accolade.

We need to be in SL to see these guys and some of the other youngsters really develop.

The quest for survival continues on Sunday.

One thing is for sure. IF ! Chester was still here, Murphy would not have had a look in, we would probably still be persisting with innes Senior. Glad that player is long gone.

More likely Lineham!

Murphy got his chance and took it with both hands, ditto Hall.
With Chester no longer here, it's all if's but's and maybe's and he certainly gave plenty of youngsters a shot last season and the one before.
Yes, his hand was forced due to injuries and unavailable players due to covid but, we went as far down the squad as I can remember.

In isolation, Senior did ok for us

Have you thought that he might want to stay at Wakefield?

So you credit McGillvray with loyalty but don't think other players ever show that.

What about some loyalty to the team that gave him his opportunity?? Any reason why a player wouldn't want to return that?
Maybe that won't be a career long thing but it's certainly not unheard of for players to stick around with a team that has given them their breakthrough chance.

Willie Poaching will probably hold his hand up to a few mistakes he has made this season but he deserves massive credit for the way he has managed Murphy and Hall. Murphy`s debut at home against Leeds was a very tough experience for the lad, I am guessing that many many more experienced coaches than WP would have taken Murphy off at half time and certainly would have not selected him for first team Rugby for some time. They would have ``protected `` the lad, allowed him to regain confidence in the reserves etc etc. Not Willie, he put him straight back in the firing line and boy hasn't the lad stood up and been counted. Massive credit to Murphy and WP. With regards to Hall he showed up really well in the pre season matches , not many others did, WP took on board what was on show and played the lad, again many other coaches would have said too young, too inexperienced so again top work from player and coach.

yes you even sent one to us so we could improve his game which we did, no need to thank us for that

she doesn't think

I thought about it for about three seconds then realised that I know the lad isn’t that stupid. Because you “gave him a chance” you think he’s going to stay with a bottom club for the rest of his career- a club he had no interest in before you came along and offered him a contract?
As for this idea that he has some kind of loyalty to the club that trained him- what an odd notion! How many jobs have you had- Are you still at the same place that offered you a position and trained you up, or have you moved up in the world?
He wants to have the best career he can, win trophies,
…… winning more games than he loses would be an improvement.

Time to go back to your own board jools

It hurts me to say but unfortunately Jools does have a point.
We managed to keep hold of TJ for longer than anticipated but never added the same sort of quality on a season to season basis.
Without doubt murphy could go a long way in the game He may think he would be better off at Trin for a couple of seasons hanging around to see what the club have in mind regarding quality signimgs, and developing his own game.
He may decide to look at other clubs that are at least in with a chance of silverware.
One things for sure he will definitely generate interest.