Re: New Hooker
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:31 pm
Anthony Mundine is also his cousin if I remember right.
Now that would be interesting....
Now that would be interesting....
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Deacs wont be retiring.[/quote]shaunedwardsfanclub wrote:
If so then with Roberts back and Finch arriving I can't see the logic in signing a new hooker. It surely has got to be the plan that Roberts goes to no. 1, Sam back to 6, Finch to 7, with TL & MM sharing the hooking.DaveO wrote:Deacs wont be retiring.shaunedwardsfanclub wrote:
We had three really, Dave, if you count Tommy in.DaveO wrote:
We only had two hookers this season and having three who are first team standard is not something any side does.
With hindsight we should have gone for a hooker before Finch.
Dave
If we get another Hooker where does Tommy or MM play? One of them would be dropped because Finch with have the 7 slot. I can't see either of them being happy with U20's football and that is all they would get unless an injury occurred.GeoffN wrote:We had three really, Dave, if you count Tommy in.DaveO wrote:
We only had two hookers this season and having three who are first team standard is not something any side does.
With hindsight we should have gone for a hooker before Finch.
Dave
Thing is, with only two, it seems to make Logan the first backup, which may work but I and others don't think he's quite ready.
It would depend on other players' form/fitness, but Finch & Tommy in the halves with Sam at fb? We have to have backup in all positions, as this season has shown.DaveO wrote:
If we get another Hooker where does Tommy or MM play? One of them would be dropped because Finch with have the 7 slot. I can't see either of them being happy with U20's football and that is all they would get unless an injury occurred.
I think a trio of Tommy, MM and Logan is far more likely to meet the aspirations of all three players than having three 1st team standard hookers in the squad.
Tommy and MM are both good enough to be SL standard hookers. That doesn't mean they are the best hookers in the competition but in some positions you have to accept "good enough" is OK.
I'd hate to see MM frozen out as he was the best 9 on the park in the GF (and will only get better IMO) and I can only see that happening if we get another top class hooker.
I'd be very surprised if TL lost out.
Dave
But we can only have 25 who get paid from the £1.6m salary cap. It is just not possible to recruit enough first team standard players to provide cover everywhere. The system forces you to use U20 players if you are unlucky with injuries and indeed if you are unlucky with injuries it can kill your season. It's not possible to mitigate this possibility completely.GeoffN wrote:It would depend on other players' form/fitness, but Finch & Tommy in the halves with Sam at fb? We have to have backup in all positions, as this season has shown.DaveO wrote:
If we get another Hooker where does Tommy or MM play? One of them would be dropped because Finch with have the 7 slot. I can't see either of them being happy with U20's football and that is all they would get unless an injury occurred.
I think a trio of Tommy, MM and Logan is far more likely to meet the aspirations of all three players than having three 1st team standard hookers in the squad.
Tommy and MM are both good enough to be SL standard hookers. That doesn't mean they are the best hookers in the competition but in some positions you have to accept "good enough" is OK.
I'd hate to see MM frozen out as he was the best 9 on the park in the GF (and will only get better IMO) and I can only see that happening if we get another top class hooker.
I'd be very surprised if TL lost out.
Dave
Bear in mind we look like missing Pat for the start, which could put Amos on his wing.
You seem to be dismissing injuries, yet only the Tomkins brothers were injury free all season, out of all the squad (and other clubs were even worse hit; it's the nature of the sport). We used 30 players this year.
It was his brother dale. He was over here for a long holiday. Some of the tries he scored where absolute class, and helped us secure promotion. He was contracted to the roosters i think it was. Class actKittwazzer wrote:Doesn't he also have a nephew playing for Shevy Sharks?cpwigan wrote:Going off on a tangent Amos has a 17 year old cousin playing for South Sydney on the wing. Runs like the wind, scored a 100 yard effort recently. Real pace