Oh dear, guess this means we wont be keeping batch this lad of what i seen aint sl standard and missed all year through injury too.good luck to lad butcant see how he going to improve anything

His lengthy highlights vid on youtube, although a bit out of date, has him in the No 8 shirt throughout. Just padding out his cv I reckon to include other cover?

Players like this are Trinity specials and many have kept us on SL whilst a few have gone onto great things. These are the types of players who’ve kept us in SL for 20 years.

Sure we’ve had some duds but not many, most of our failures have been ‘reputation’ players.

He’s probably single and will take a small contract so long as he can play in SL.

I’m not right bothered about the injury, that’s the same risk with most players.

Could be a good signing, now let’s hear the SKY commentators pronounce that name!

Why does this mean that, that’s an extreme conclusion to jump too.

As for SA, how do you know If he hasn’t played for a year, and when he did he played in a London side that did a good impression of being a SL side.

Isn’t it far more likely that he’s replacing someone like Green?

I’ve said it numerous times, clubs like ours will be looking to sign these multi purpose players. With a squad of 28 we can afford very few specialist players. I think we need to accept that.

We won’t imho be signing any ‘name’ players for a while, at least not until the East stand and the new pitch are in place and new revenue is available. The money simply isn’t there.

Our greatest hope is that our Academy starts to produce big style in the next few years. Things are looking good but we won’t know until we need to use them in anger.

Willie Poching has forgotten more about RL than most punters on here will ever know, and if he sees this lad strengthening the squad then I'll back the signing and look forward to seeing him in RW and B.

Was he playing for London at the same time as Eddie Battye?

I hope he goes well but it seems to go against the quality not quantity stance. He’s not played in a year. Hand on heart I didn’t see him play, but I also didn’t hear anyone shouting about him either. Hope it’s a gamble that pays off.

I vaguely remember this hitting the news.

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Because i read things he did his achillies at start of the season.i also read that he played 14 games for london in sl hes played a total of 45 for london and 29 at skolars, hemel oxford and Sheffield. I assume that that may be end of batch or yep maybe walker as how many utility forwards do we need as he aint an out and out prop his squad number this season was 11.
Like i said i wish him well hope he goes really well and rips it up and while ever he in a trinty shirt ill support him but i certainly not gonna get over excited or think he is going to improve us

But Batch isn’t a utility forward, he’s an out and out SR and a known quantity. He’s played elsewhere but only in absolute emergencies. This lad is a total utility player and a total punt and I suspect he’s coming on the cheap as more or less a trialist.

You’re doing what you always do, going for the worst case scenario, why?

I know this is a forum and people are free to speculate but at least let the dust settle first.

Batchelor may leave I don’t know I’m not his agent and you may be right on that only time will tell. Where I take issue is the way you connect it with this guy and thus add a touch of controversy that simply isn’t there. There is no connection between the signing or non signing of either player except in your head as far as I can see.

Or maybe its just what i get told.

As for worst case scenario thats how i am with everything so say he comes and is below average im not dissappointed but if he is goes well its a bonus.for 1 min dont think i dont want him to do well cos i do i want him to go get man of steel.

I think the club are in a viscous circle at the mo its been stated we are skint and want to sell more STs and for some of us like me we have got or will get but there are some still undecided will SA make people want to buy them i wouldnt of thought so but how do you get the players who will hopefully pursuade peeps to buy without selling them first.

Or regarding batch he covers centre too.

I wouldn’t say he covers centre but I accept he’s played there a few times when we’ve run out of bodies but he’s never been selected to play there.

This guy looks like he can play anywhere in the pack. I don’t see him as first 17 but he could be a useful gap filler. Batch I see as a first choice player.

That said these are my opinions, Poching may see it very differently.

Just looked him up, not the biggest, but then neither was Nigel Bell. Similar build to the ex leeds player, Darren Fleary.

Not sure when he's off contract, but as he's more a utility player, wonder if Tinny is on his way out.

I thought that but against Hull in the last game I thought Arona looked really strong but that needs to be measured against how poor Hull were that night.

There is no way round it, this lads a punt but I seriously doubt it’s an expensive one.

If he reminds me of anyone it’s Gwaze but I’m assuming he has a bigger skill set.

I also think we are moving away from the size is everything philosophy in the pack. Strength, work rate and endurance taking over. There will always be a place for the big men but the game is so fast now there impact is more limited than it was.

Fifita is clearly our best prop but there is far more to Dave than his size. Next best is Battye and he’s not a big man. We’d do quite well if we had a front row with one Fifita and 3 or 4 Battye type players.

I'm not sure why we are discussing who he is replacing. Can't he just be a squad signing that we want to develop?
We are short in front row and at 13.