[Pemps]

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:15 pm  

No number for Sam Hopkins? Is that him done and dusted then?

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:48 pm  

Pemps wrote:

No number for Sam Hopkins? Is that him done and dusted then?

He's back at Leigh on a season long loan!!

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:29 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

He's back at Leigh on a season long loan!!

I do not think we will see him again, this is from a very good source at Leigh.

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:33 pm  

Cant believe Flower has been given a number

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:53 pm  

Why wouldn't Flower be given a number?

As for the squad overall, it does look very strong. There is a lot of experience as well as the talented youth really being given a first team run out this year.
Williams at 6 is the stand out selection and I think he's got the shirt due to his pace. Hampshire will be playing at full back quite a lot I feel in 2015 as a run in for him getting the 1 shirt next year.

Every part of the squad has pace together with size, skill, aggression and game knowledge.
We've quite a formidable outfit in 2015 and I can see them competeing for silverware throughout.

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:49 pm  

TheSurgeon wrote:

Cant believe Flower has been given a number

Why? He can't play for us without a squad number

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:54 pm  

I feel we've missed a trick by not assigning Flower #666

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:57 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Why wouldn't Flower be given a number?

As for the squad overall, it does look very strong. There is a lot of experience as well as the talented youth really being given a first team run out this year.
Williams at 6 is the stand out selection and I think he's got the shirt due to his pace. Hampshire will be playing at full back quite a lot I feel in 2015 as a run in for him getting the 1 shirt next year.

Every part of the squad has pace together with size, skill, aggression and game knowledge.
We've quite a formidable outfit in 2015 and I can see them competeing for silverware throughout.

Hampshire could do an Escare at Catalans given a sustained run of games at some point and displace an experienced player in Bowen (like Escare did with Webb) IMO. He's ultra talented and probably suits our game a bit more then Bowen does at fullback.

I'd still like to see him given a few games at 6 though along with Williams and Powell. I don't think we desperately need to nail somebody down for the position until half way through the season. I'd use the first few months to try out a few options unless one of them blitzes it and makes it impossible to leave them out.

Re: Squad Numbers : Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:05 pm  

CM Punk wrote:

I feel we've missed a trick by not assigning Flower #666

Re: Squad Numbers : Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:24 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

Hampshire could do an Escare at Catalans given a sustained run of games at some point and displace an experienced player in Bowen (like Escare did with Webb) IMO. He's ultra talented and probably suits our game a bit more then Bowen does at fullback.

I'd still like to see him given a few games at 6 though along with Williams and Powell. I don't think we desperately need to nail somebody down for the position until half way through the season. I'd use the first few months to try out a few options unless one of them blitzes it and makes it impossible to leave them out.

Hampshire could be key player for us if he stays injury free. He is the fastest player at Wigan and once the grounds dry out could be used to devastating effect. Should he play at #1 or #6 I don't know and I've that conversation with so many people.
Eventually I see him at #6 and Williams at #7 but that may be two or three years down the line, but for now I'd like to see him get 15 - 20 games in the first team this year and I suspect he'll play off the bench for many of those games.

I'm also hoping that Oliver Gildart gets a few games this year, he, Toby King (Warrington) and Mark Percival (Saints) are outstanding young centre prospects.