Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 6:23 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Did anyone watch the Wire v Shudds game last night and have any feedback regarding Russel's input into Shudd's big zero?

I chose to watch Saints in the hope of seeing Cas get a shellacking only to sit through what must have been one of the most error strewn Saints performances since the club was founded. And they could have still won it!

In his defence he was not in the team.

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:18 am  

Was Russel injured or did Watson drop him. I really wish we could bring him in early

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:26 am  

Apparently a lot of the Giants players caught some kind of bug last week in France. Russell was one so was named as 18th man last night

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:22 am  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Did anyone watch the Wire v Shudds game last night and have any feedback regarding Russel's input into Shudd's big zero?

I chose to watch Saints in the hope of seeing Cas get a shellacking only to sit through what must have been one of the most error strewn Saints performances since the club was founded. And they could have still won it!

Yes with no Russel at Shudds, watched this game myself. I though Corey had a great game especially in defence

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 9:46 am  

We started off watching the St's game but got bored with it after 20 minutes so switched over to watch the Wire -v- Shudds game.....much more enjoyable and a better result

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 12:15 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Why would Lino cancel it. It's not in his interests.

Game time, simple as that!

If Powell concludes that he needs a better Half Back then Lino may be sidelined for the season. At his age he hasn’t got too many seasons left so he might not want to spend one sitting in the stand and opt to take a deal to leave.

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 12:52 pm  

Powell Gives Lino special praise in his post match interviews on a regular basis ,would that be the case if he wanted to give the guy the flick .Whilst Lino might not be to everyone’s taste there are certainly other areas in our team that want strengthening first . Of our players that we have contracted id say only Johnstone and McMeeken are world class players and you wouldn’t find anyone better in their respective positions in super league ,the rest of our team not so .let’s concentrate on strengthening our centres ,or loose forward and quite possibly the hooking position ,non of which fill me with confidence going into super league.

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 1:41 pm  

Like Ketty says Powell seems to rate Lino very highly with him saying Russell is an organising half I guess they will be our starting halves. If the rumours from Mills are correct we have 5 players to come in. Stourton, Hall and one rumour was Matty Russell. So two more, on try time podcast they mentioned Micky Mac to replace Hood for one year and I think that has its merits. Another rumour is we will keep a quota spot and a decent chunk off cap money in case some big name becomes available.

So not sure what positions the other 2 signings will be even a top quality winger of hooker might be on the cards. If Cas go down Westerman for one year might be good.

Re: Olly Russell 4 year deal : Sat Jul 06, 2024 2:16 pm  

Prince Buster wrote:

Yes with no Russel at Shudds, watched this game myself. I though Corey had a great game especially in defence

I've been impressed with Halls defence from day one and he shows some nice attacking touches as well.