Captain Hook wrote:No, but he has been all we could’ve wanted, slotted in wherever he was asked and always made a decent fist of it, possibly at the expense of his personal ambitions. I would hope every Wire fan would wish him well. A possible punditry role when he retires I would think.
He has been a great signing and clubman over a long period of his career, since starting originally at Salford.
I always thought that he would be the ideal type of player to move into coaching once his playing days ended.
Maybe offer him a role at Academy/Scholarship level as an assistant and see how he does?
Boss Hog wrote:That`s exactly my stance on Yates..
Yes, he is a great defender, and in the modern game he gets in a team as a 13.
With Currie`s move to loose forward, I can`t see Yates displacing him there.
That leaves Yates playing at prop, , which I think he is too small for and no better than the props we currently have.
Lastly, Yates is a Quota Player, and it is a waste of a Quota Spot for him playing prop.
The best props I saw back in the day were around 5’7” to 5’10”. I couldn’t believe how short Les Boyd and Kurt Sorenson were in off the pitch real life!
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I’ll be extremely pleased to see our recruitment slow down to picking up just one or two players if those players are good and fit the system. We’ve had ample opportunity to look over at St Helens and see how they do it and finally the penny is dropping. Saints IIRC very rarely have a big turnover at the end of the season - they go for continuity and promote from within and bar the odd inevitable mistake they have got their recruitment spot on.
Hull are currently behaving like us of old…..except even worse which is horrifying if you’re a Hull fan.
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rubber duckie wrote:The best props I saw back in the day were around 5’7” to 5’10”. I couldn’t believe how short Les Boyd and Kurt Sorenson were in off the pitch real life!
dont forget Jim Mills he was a real short ar… actually he was quite big
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Captain Hook wrote:dont forget Jim Mills he was a real short ar… actually he was quite big
From my perspective Mills seemed to be the exception back then rather than the rule. His great adversary and our guy Mike Nicholas fits RD's Prop prototype from back in the day.
I did wonder a couple of days ago when Mago signed for another couple of years at Wigan whether Cooper would look to move elsewhere. With Vaughan, Harrison, Musgrove, Yates?, Philbin, Bullock, Crowther, Wood, Thomas, Okoro we seem well stocked?
Amone would be a great signing, would be a point of difference for us, but Cooper I’m not sure what that would achieve.
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