Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:22 am  

Retires with immediate effect! WTF! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/32515217

Retires with immediate effect! WTF! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/32515217

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Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:26 am  

Just give it a couple of days and Saints will make a bid for Gary Wheeler.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:30 am  

That's come out of the blue, they can have wheeler as far as I'm concerned.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:32 am  

We've signed Shannon McDonnell to cover for the rest of the season whilst Lomax is out for the season and Wellens is pretty much ruined by his hip injury.

It does however shift a big salary off our cap, which with the rumoured exit of Josh Jones to rugby union, would leave us in a position to make another signing.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:34 am  

Saddened! wrote:

We've signed Shannon McDonnell to cover for the rest of the season whilst Lomax is out for the season and Wellens is pretty much ruined by his hip injury.

It does however shift a big salary off our cap, which with the rumoured exit of Josh Jones to rugby union, would leave us in a position to make another signing.

Wheeler?????

Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:34 am  

Whilst reading that, there is also a link on the BBC RL page to the 1979 JPT final when we got beat by Widnes, 'starring' chief thug Jim Mills " if I don't take a couple of lads out of the game, then I'm doing something wrong" Wonder how long he would last in todays game?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/32496484

Whilst reading that, there is also a link on the BBC RL page to the 1979 JPT final when we got beat by Widnes, 'starring' chief thug Jim Mills " if I don't take a couple of lads out of the game, then I'm doing something wrong" Wonder how long he would last in todays game?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/32496484

Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:39 am  

Irishwire wrote:

Wheeler?????

I doubt it. More like Kurt Gidley or someone we were planning to sign next season.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:12 pm  

He could always sign for Salford.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:39 pm  

Litigation in the pipeline?
Has he had concussion issues before? If not, I bet there's a few squeaky bums with WN postcodes, tonight.

Shame for the fella.

Re: Lance Hohaia : Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:05 am  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

Litigation in the pipeline?
Has he had concussion issues before? If not, I bet there's a few squeaky bums with WN postcodes, tonight.

Shame for the fella.

Hopefully he's okay. It'll be interesting to see what happens from here. There is a lot of litigation going around in the NFL at the moment, with huge sums being paid out. Sums that would financially ruin the RFL, even if scaled down to our salary levels. You have to wonder how robust the RFL would be under this kind of action. I'm sure there wouldn't be a shortage of other players with similar conditions who have just put up with it or accepted it as the result of playing league for so long. I'm no legal or medical expert, but if it can be proven it was the Flower punch and there is action against him, I have no problems with that, he deserves it and it was clearly an intentional act.

There is no indication yet that it's coming, but we'll have to wait and see.