Re: Drinkwaters performances : Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:17 am  

We’ve discussed Drinkwater, Powell, Woods, Finn etc on this thread but one player I find very exciting that nobody has mentioned is Jake Trueman at Castleford. I think he’s an exceptional talent and one I think will be better than all of those mentioned so far. I’m not saying Cas would release him but he’d be worth a good attempt by KR and IL.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:42 am  

Watching Greg Bird last night got me wondering about a season or two of him playing a Lockers type role with us too. Old, experienced head, good leader, good skills - similar to Bryan Fletcher in that regard. I know he made a few errors but with Bateman leaving and Lockers being Lockers, we are going to need some leadership in that pack.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:15 pm  

pk wrote:

Watching Greg Bird last night got me wondering about a season or two of him playing a Lockers type role with us too. Old, experienced head, good leader, good skills - similar to Bryan Fletcher in that regard. I know he made a few errors but with Bateman leaving and Lockers being Lockers, we are going to need some leadership in that pack.

He gives away too many errors and penalties IMO (in general, not just yesterday). He is more penalised than any player on our team (4th in the league), and has made more errors than any forward in SL.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:43 pm  

I only have one issue with Greg Bird: I dislike him more than any player currently playing the game.

The grub.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 2:16 pm  

Bigredwarrior wrote:

We’ve discussed Drinkwater, Powell, Woods, Finn etc on this thread but one player I find very exciting that nobody has mentioned is Jake Trueman at Castleford. I think he’s an exceptional talent and one I think will be better than all of those mentioned so far. I’m not saying Cas would release him but he’d be worth a good attempt by KR and IL.

At one point it was being reported he’d signed for us before he went to Cas. We got Joe Brown from Bradford and the young lad currently playing centre for Hull (Cameron Scott) also left at the same time.

We may well regret not pushing the boat out a bit more at the time for Trueman.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 3:42 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

At one point it was being reported he’d signed for us before he went to Cas. We got Joe Brown from Bradford and the young lad currently playing centre for Hull (Cameron Scott) also left at the same time.

We may well regret not pushing the boat out a bit more at the time for Trueman.

I think the fact that we had two very good young halfbacks in Harry Smith and Callum Green coming through may have influenced that decision.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:05 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I think the fact that we had two very good young halfbacks in Harry Smith and Callum Green coming through may have influenced that decision.

Fancy either to break through?

Seen bits of Harry Smith this year and he looks a good player but don’t know a great deal about either player.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:16 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

At one point it was being reported he’d signed for us before he went to Cas. We got Joe Brown from Bradford and the young lad currently playing centre for Hull (Cameron Scott) also left at the same time.

We may well regret not pushing the boat out a bit more at the time for Trueman.

Think we got a good one in Brown. Been a stand out whenever I’ve watched the young lads

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:28 pm  

NSW wrote:

Think we got a good one in Brown. Been a stand out whenever I’ve watched the young lads

Noticed he’s been scoring try’s out on loan at Swinton recently as well. Only downside for him is that’s hes another winger.

Re: Drinkwaters performances : Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:32 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

He gives away too many errors and penalties IMO (in general, not just yesterday). He is more penalised than any player on our team (4th in the league), and has made more errors than any forward in SL.

So did Joel Tomkins and Bird is far superior