Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 25938 Location: Back in Hull.
Mild mannered Janitor wrote:Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect your's Dave, but I will disagree here. I feel you are going OTT on this.
Taylor, Watts, Houghton, Ellis, Mini, Shaul, Sneyd have been great for us this year so far.
The rest have done their job well. No one has let the side down.
Yeaman is doing what he should have been doing 10+ years ago. It took him to be left out of the side at the start of the season to start showing this level of performance.
I have cricised Yeaman in the pasted and I have openly praised him this year.
That said, successful sides replace at the right times. yeaman will be 33 before the end of this season. I feel that you personally would cricised the club if we brought in a 33 year old three-quarter from another club.
Maybe great is too strong a word, he has done well and had been very important to the team would be better, look at Talanos form since Yeaman has been with us. Got us back into games a few times with important plays and kept us in it with good defensive reads.
I'd be happy if he stays, but if the club feel it's time to move on I totally understand that too.
*Champ Manager time* - Providing we've the cap space, I'd be tempted to offer Bonaire's mate another year as backup centre, as I'm not convinced yet by either of the three centres listed that they're up to his standard defensively. If things did go a little pear-shaped for a couple of games, he'd be a good guy to bring in to sure things up. Michaels I'd release.
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Got to say it's refreshing to read a thread where people with differing opinions can argue their cases well without resorting to petty points scoring or abuse, some good stuff on both sides of the argument. Me, I think he'll be a really good signing, has all the attributes to be a fans favourite
As a Salford fan I'm gutted to see Josh go but whether we like to admit it or not Hull are a bigger club with a much larger fan base and possibly more to offer at this stage of his career. It's a shame though as our current squad has bags of potential and losing the likes of Scott Taylor & Josh to you guys just pegs back our development.Both players have a great attitude and I've no doubt will be great assets to your club. Personally I think Josh could turn into a cracking 2nd row but he does need to improve defensively. If he does that then he'll go a long way
So that's now Holdsworth, Sneyd, Feka, Taylor and Griffin you've poached.... looks like we're now your feeder club rather than Wire's!
quote="Ruune Rebellion"]No. That’s what you said you idiot which is why you are sexiest lol. Give up you sexiest Imbecile[/quote]
SaleSlim wrote:As a Salford fan I'm gutted to see Josh go but whether we like to admit it or not Hull are a bigger club with a much larger fan base and possibly more to offer at this stage of his career. It's a shame though as our current squad has bags of potential and losing the likes of Scott Taylor & Josh to you guys just pegs back our development.Both players have a great attitude and I've no doubt will be great assets to your club. Personally I think Josh could turn into a cracking 2nd row but he does need to improve defensively. If he does that then he'll go a long way
So that's now Holdsworth, Sneyd, Feka, Taylor and Griffin you've poached.... looks like we're now your feeder club rather than Wire's!
scott taylor was only on a 'gap year' never had any intention of staying at salford, snyed wasnt wanted by your coaching staff at the time
number 6 wrote:scott taylor was only on a 'gap year' never had any intention of staying at salford, snyed wasnt wanted by your coaching staff at the time
It was a light hearted quip mate..... I'm not having a pop! I'm fully aware of the situation with both players. I actually rate all the players you signed from us and have no issues with the way any of them left and genuinely wish them all well. Scott Taylor is a tremendous player and I hope he gets England recognition. Unfortunately England have an abundance of top quality front rowers ATM but he's certainly in that next bracket behind Burgess & Graham and deserves a crack at international level based on his last 18 months form.
quote="Ruune Rebellion"]No. That’s what you said you idiot which is why you are sexiest lol. Give up you sexiest Imbecile[/quote]
The sad thing for Michaels is that based on overall consistant performance he's done better than all the first pick backs aside from JS. He's the the best defensive back including Yeaman/Shaul and given he played right across the back line without any problems I think he was unlucky to be dropped.
Whilst Yeaman has improved it's a lot easier for the pressure/focus to come off in a winning team, he's lost a yard or two and his go forward is no better or worse than Michaels was. He still pulls out the odd excellent tackle but still completely misses others (as in notgetting there at all) and I honestly still think he doesn't get involved enough, Fonua is very suspect position wise on his D and only the last month has started to put a shift in but given the extra couple of stone he's carrying from his NRL peak and his dodgy knee at season start (which clearly hindered him) he's never a winger atm hence why shifted inside which defensively is a mistake IMHO. If we have Fonua AND Griffin as our centres then the inside defenders are going to work extra hard I'm afraid as that will continue to be our weakness. In attack it's looking great.
It was a light hearted quip mate..... I'm not having a pop! I'm fully aware of the situation with both players. I actually rate all the players you signed from us and have no issues with the way any of them left and genuinely wish them all well. Scott Taylor is a tremendous player and I hope he gets England recognition. Unfortunately England have an abundance of top quality front rowers ATM but he's certainly in that next bracket behind Burgess & Graham and deserves a crack at international level based on his last 18 months form.
Taylor's light years ahead of walmsley this year so if the coach picks on form he should definitely be in the England squad.
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I'm fully aware of the situation with both players. I actually rate all the players you signed from us and have no issues with the way any of them left and genuinely wish them all well. Scott Taylor is a tremendous player and I hope he gets England recognition. Unfortunately England have an abundance of top quality front rowers ATM but he's certainly in that next bracket behind Burgess & Graham and deserves a crack at international level based on his last 18 months form.
