Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:49 am  

This time last season had anyone said Soward would be at London what would have been the response.

Can always hope, apart from the lack of grunt up front and shear physicality, its a lack of direction and leadership thats letting us down, Soward brought that last year, Benji could do the same, grab games by the scruff and direct guys round the park.

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:52 pm  

In RLW they claim that he's settled in NZ and the wife is happy as she's got a show on radio and has just landed a gig on a tv cook show and is very happy there. so they think any move to SL would be fairly remote in their opinion.

But like I few others here, be great if happened, but if honest I would prefer the money spend on a couple of big experienced forwards who have some grunt going forward.

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:02 pm  

Would be a complete waste of money. Even if we ignore the fact that he's spent the last 3 or 4 seasons living off his past performances, at his very best he was a player that did fantastic things in broken play. He was never an organiser, he was never a structured player, he was never particularly great in defence. But behind a strong pack that was capable of bending the opponents' line and creating half openings he was amazingly good at exploiting them.

What good, exactly, would he do behind our undersized and overworked forwards?

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:13 pm  

nadera78 wrote:

Would be a complete waste of money. Even if we ignore the fact that he's spent the last 3 or 4 seasons living off his past performances, at his very best he was a player that did fantastic things in broken play. He was never an organiser, he was never a structured player, he was never particularly great in defence. But behind a strong pack that was capable of bending the opponents' line and creating half openings he was amazingly good at exploiting them.

What good, exactly, would he do behind our undersized and overworked forwards?

Tend to agree with that. Also whether he has the same temperament. Would certainly add a few to the gate though.

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:26 pm  

nadera78 wrote:

Would be a complete waste of money. Even if we ignore the fact that he's spent the last 3 or 4 seasons living off his past performances, at his very best he was a player that did fantastic things in broken play. He was never an organiser, he was never a structured player, he was never particularly great in defence. But behind a strong pack that was capable of bending the opponents' line and creating half openings he was amazingly good at exploiting them.

What good, exactly, would he do behind our undersized and overworked forwards?

Completely agree. Yes he'd improve us, but wouldn't offer value for money

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:12 pm  

richie166 wrote:

Completely agree. Yes he'd improve us, but wouldn't offer value for money

depends on who's paying his wages?
given he'd probably add 500 or so a time to the remaining home gates at a score a pop, AK might consider paying half his wages.....then it would be an investment worth looking at.

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:26 pm  

AK?? To invest money when DH will not?? Gutters, sometimes you make me chuckle....

I do see your point, but lets face it, it's highly unlikely.

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:37 pm  

And would be really add 500 to the gate? Did Soward make an impact in terms of crowds, genuine question.

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:08 pm  

richie166 wrote:

And would be really add 500 to the gate? Did Soward make an impact in terms of crowds, genuine question.

Without the stats I really couldn't say, anyway it was so late in the season when Super Jamie arrived that many fans had knocked it on the head I think. Mind you we looked to have taken more to an away game (Sheffield in the CC) last year when he was in the team than I'd seen for some time! Whatever the case he certainly made the games he played for us more enjoyable to watch!

Re: Very wishful thinking - Soward mk. 2? : Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:22 pm  

Rob from Erith wrote:

Without the stats I really couldn't say, anyway it was so late in the season when Super Jamie arrived that many fans had knocked it on the head I think. Mind you we looked to have taken more to an away game (Sheffield in the CC) last year when he was in the team than I'd seen for some time! Whatever the case he certainly made the games he played for us more enjoyable to watch!

I agree Rob, definitely enjoyed watching the team more with Soward in the side. And I'm sure I would with Benji too, but enjoyment and winning games are different things in this respect I think. I don't know if any top level props are available but that's where we should be looking