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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:18 pm  
Ryan Brierley might be available! But I doubt very much if we can afford him.

I was impressed with the Halifax scrum half last year – Moore?

In my opinion Addy is a bit of an enigma. He can do all the things we want from a scrum half but he struggles to do them consistently well and can be exposed against the better sides. He’s a great utility player and someone I’d always fit into the squad. He’ll be becoming one of the senior men now so he needs to step it up. I hope he can do that.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:29 pm  
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Ryan Brierley might be available! But I doubt very much if we can afford him.

I was impressed with the Halifax scrum half last year – Moore?

In my opinion Addy is a bit of an enigma. He can do all the things we want from a scrum half but he struggles to do them consistently well and can be exposed against the better sides. He’s a great utility player and someone I’d always fit into the squad. He’ll be becoming one of the senior men now so he needs to step it up. I hope he can do that.

Moore has joined fax this year from Fev.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:29 pm  
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You can't 'trim' anyone who is contracted for 2016. I suspect those fringe players you want us to get rid of are in that situation. We're in a league where most clubs are part time so can't match our wages, so why should a player agree to leave? They are entitled to stay here and collect the salary we offered them, and unless we pay them out for the rest of their contract, the club's hands are tied.


I didn't say we should pay them off. We clearly can't afford to do that.

They are contracted for 2016 due to our recruitment over the past couple of years. I was highlighting the fact that a lot of money has been wasted on players who won't get any game time. If we are already spending too much on the squad to sign a decent scrum half then who is to blame for that? Is it the fans fault for not buying more season tickets or the bloke who has wasted a large chunk of our player salary?

I have no problem with Addy and he can probably play better at scrum half than anybody else currently available but he's not a long term solution. I'd love to see a young Paul Deacon type player pop up from somewhere.

Edit: I know Paul Deacon type players don't pop up very often before I get pulled up. I do think that is the type of scrum half that we need though.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:54 pm  
The only other name that I've seen in the media recently is Peter Wallace, but he's the wrong side of 30 (short sighted approach), has a dodgy knee (risky) and was playing first grade NRL last season (too expensive for us).

There might be someone in the NRL reserves / queensland cup, but you would hope that the club have already explored that avenue.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:58 pm  
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There might be someone in the NRL reserves / queensland cup, but you would hope that the club have already explored that avenue.


They probably have, but it hasn't worked out well in recent times for us. Likes of Dave Petersen, Chris Ulugia & Karl Davies all came from there. Two of them never played, one looked a bit rubbish.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:00 pm  
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They probably have, but it hasn't worked out well in recent times for us. Likes of Dave Petersen, Chris Ulugia & Karl Davies all came from there. Two of them never played, one looked a bit rubbish.


I'm going to be keeping my eye on Ulugia at Batley this season, at least as much as is possible with the lack of media coverage.
I still think we were a bit hasty letting him go.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:03 pm  
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I'm going to be keeping my eye on Ulugia at Batley this season, at least as much as is possible with the lack of media coverage.
I still think we were a bit hasty letting him go.


To be fair, in the game time he did get for us, he was often paired with Adam Henry. Even Lesley Vainikolo would have struggled outside him.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:15 pm  
Good point about Ulugia/Adam Henry but to be fair he did look a bit error prone at times and he had plenty of competition on the wing. I’d say our current wingers are all better than him.

The players mentioned we’ve recruited out of the Queensland Cup were below the required standard.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:55 pm  
Haven't Sheffield also left the number 7 shirt free for now? Shows that there is a lack of quality options available in that position.

However I guess that means that if a 7 does become available later in the season that you are likely to be competing against at least 1 other full time Championship squad for their signature. Plus any SL teams that are looking to add to their options at half back. A risky strategy in such a key position but there is no point signing somebody who isn't good enough just because they are available... like Siejka!

Be interesting to see who becomes available and who is in the fight to sign them when they do.
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Re: Jacks & Caprice - Yay or Nay? : Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:07 pm  
I wonder what Siejka is doing this season? Maybe he should get into the music industry. There is plenty of precedent. The New Siejkas, and before them, The Siejkas (with the unmatched voice of Judith Durham). Then there was "The Siejka", a big hit for The Who and still a great record. I remember Kula Siejka who had a huge hit more recently. Are there any I've missed?
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