Dobbo aint coming we would have signed him when he was offered earlier in the season I don't think Gentle rates him and anyway the way things are over at the Allam 'show us ya money' Stadium Hudge would lose too much face if he sold him. Gentle certainly rates chase because he told me he scared him to death everytime he got the ball on Saturday I think thats why they are really trrying with this one. Hope we get chase but starting to wonder now think its becoming a real long shot myself!!

'Unstructured'. I love this.

As if any coach, even all the way down to pub league level, would purposely send a team out 'unstructured' in attack.

Richard Agar maybe?


Every coach has set plays and will identify weaknesses in their opposition & look to exploit it. This is a structure, a gameplan, some of which will be tailored to their opponents that week and some which will be generic moves from Gentle's play book.

There are times of course that a player will see something else on, or they may be required to do something off the cuff in a broken field. That's as far as it goes though, none of this 'unstructured' nonsense.

Rangi Chase is a class player and I can't understand why anyone would want Dobson over him. Chase is a box of tricks and produces plays that other halfbacks can't both with his passing and running game. His kicking game isn't brilliant but alongside Holdsworth it wouldn't matter too much.

With the side we are putting together Chase would bring a genuine chance of silverware.

I really hope we get him but i'm not confident.

Well I have to say whether you post as the bear or Sandra this post has to go down as a record, never have I read you discussing so much rugby, not normally your style.

I really can't believe people want Dobson. He only stands out in a terrible Rovers side.

His defence is appalling and goes missing when the going gets hard.

Forget Chase. Give Goldie a year.

I have my moments. Keyboard coaches talking nonsense bring it out of me.

I'm not Sandra by the way

To be fair to him, he did well at Wigan and Catalans too, and I'm 100% sure he would have improved our side had we signed him when rovers did.



Don't forget Chase. Under the right terms, get both.

Chase is brilliant and anyone who claims he isn't knows the square root of feck all about the game. He is virtually unplayable at times and opposition teams are terrified of him. There were times on Saturday when we couldn't lay a finger on him

Briscoe did and he lost the ball

It was voted tackle of the game in League Express.It was in the first half and it left Chase shaken .Briscoe ran across the field to make it

Chase is a fantastic player.He showed that on Saturday.
Sadly I don't think his skills will be on show for us next season.

Only an opinion but a player with speed and skill should be able to close a player down .That what Hull did on Saturday with Chase.A good coach (Gentle)would tell his players to do and they did that. I will respect other posters opinion if they think players are good or class.We all see different things in life.If we miss out on Chase then that hard luck.The Cub have done everything to get him.Somebody will fill the gap and I for one will back the person.

Has The Brother become absent? I thought this signing was "100% complete"?