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Post by JJR on May 29, 2024 9:04:46 GMT
And Rowley trying to build a team, with difficulty, and he knows the patterns, fits in and we can afford him…we have enough changes of personnell
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Post by mrg on May 29, 2024 15:03:53 GMT
Loghan Lewis confirmed for remainder of season from Canberra Raiders. Dont know much about him but he's got an accent and plays prop. and brings the average age of the squad down a bit.
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Post by kreuzbergred on May 29, 2024 15:16:18 GMT
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Post by BIMBAM on May 29, 2024 16:24:07 GMT
A small loose forwarding but a strong runner over short spells. I’m not sure why we’ve signed him , but in Rowley we trust.
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Post by kilop on May 29, 2024 16:33:00 GMT
Club website said loose, but he's been playing prop for Canberra NSW team? I also can't find his height or weight anywhere. A man of mystery  |
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Post by lhred on May 29, 2024 16:40:04 GMT
This is the type of forward rowley likes I was speaking to Paul king awhile back and there was some players being offered to us and rowley said no he wants forwards who can get a quick play the ball he doesn’t like the big battering rams he likes forwards to find there feet quickly!me personally I feel we miss a big lad because we get rolled far to easily,I’m all for this type of forward but we have lots of them the young lad from Wigan is another!it’s all very well being quick and playing quick but no good if your stuck in your own 20 because your being bullied!
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Post by cmillward20 on May 29, 2024 17:00:18 GMT
This is the type of forward rowley likes I was speaking to Paul king awhile back and there was some players being offered to us and rowley said no he wants forwards who can get a quick play the ball he doesn’t like the big battering rams he likes forwards to find there feet quickly!me personally I feel we miss a big lad because we get rolled far to easily,I’m all for this type of forward but we have lots of them the young lad from Wigan is another!it’s all very well being quick and playing quick but no good if your stuck in your own 20 because your being bullied! I agree look at all the best teams they have big packs Keen to see how Lewis plays |
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Post by JJR on May 29, 2024 19:49:15 GMT
This is the type of forward rowley likes I was speaking to Paul king awhile back and there was some players being offered to us and rowley said no he wants forwards who can get a quick play the ball he doesn’t like the big battering rams he likes forwards to find there feet quickly!me personally I feel we miss a big lad because we get rolled far to easily,I’m all for this type of forward but we have lots of them the young lad from Wigan is another!it’s all very well being quick and playing quick but no good if your stuck in your own 20 because your being bullied! I’m sure Rowley has forgotten more about rugby and forwards than you me and King. Only the coaching staff should have their say on the team building…other amateurs should keep out of it. The main job of the Board is to raise the cash for the coaching team to build a squad….let the zBoard get on with that…which is not that great if we’re honest Rowley continually fights above his weight and it’s not by listening to non experts Im sure if the Board generated the cash to keep hold of the likes of Dupreee and to bring in bigger, higher class forwards then he would happily agree..but slow big sluggish forwards at the level we can afford….certainly not Wigan had a better bench of forwards than we could normally put out or afford…to take them up thro the middle would have been suicide…and we can’t afford forwards to do that anyway. His tactic of ‘go round them, not thro them’ would have worked better if we’d have had a better than 68% completion rate in the first half. We actually won the second half until he had to pull lots off to save them for next week i don’t who has these silly idea that we can just pull big props out of the air for a few bob. We’ve got no money, we have a v small squad and we do fantastically well with what Rowley and Blease pull in |
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Post by kreuzbergred on May 29, 2024 19:51:21 GMT
Club website said loose, but he's been playing prop for Canberra NSW team? I also can't find his height or weight anywhere. A man of mystery Also, his first name is Loghan. Australia has a habit of giving its sons and daughters slightly odd first names, but what happened when his parents went to register his birth? They'd probably been out on the piss the night before and hadn't sobered up. I'll make a point of asking him later in the season. |
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Post by JJR on May 29, 2024 20:01:06 GMT
This is the type of forward rowley likes I was speaking to Paul king awhile back and there was some players being offered to us and rowley said no he wants forwards who can get a quick play the ball he doesn’t like the big battering rams he likes forwards to find there feet quickly!me personally I feel we miss a big lad because we get rolled far to easily,I’m all for this type of forward but we have lots of them the young lad from Wigan is another!it’s all very well being quick and playing quick but no good if your stuck in your own 20 because your being bullied! I agree look at all the best teams they have big packs Keen to see how Lewis plays Absolutely CM…but the big teams have the money to afford big tough fast international forwards…we don’t |
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Post by JJR on May 29, 2024 20:04:36 GMT
I wouldn’t expect miracles from the Wigan lad and the Oz lad, they’re only v young for forwards….we’re short on numbers and surviving at the moment…small busted squad, sadly
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Post by lhred on May 29, 2024 20:14:16 GMT
Oh look jjr turns it into a bitchfest about the board there’s a surprise!no one was telling rowley who to buy merely giving him a list at start of season of available props from Australia he said no one took his fancy as per the type of forward he likes he then used the budget for the prop on a winger who has played 2games and who is now being replaced!so the board do give him money to buy players hence why we have lafai mcdonald Watkins sneyd partington shorrocks etc!
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Post by JJR on May 29, 2024 21:29:31 GMT
LHR if you and the Board know anything about coaching and buying players sack Rowley and get on eith it
Words are easy…doing it as Rowley does each week with a small busted squad…not so easy….yes he bought effectively a world class winger for not much who wouldn’t toe the line so he sacked him…I see that as strength not a weakness…but he doesn’t blame anybody else ie not the crowd, the Council, the RFL…he just struggles on professionally with a smile on his face, admits his mistakes and gets on with it
Yes we have some good players that Rowley and Blease have bought…lots have had to be sold on to keep the ship afloat, however….but we never have enough; we remain, as I understand with the smallest , now busted squad, in the League sitting 6 th
A Bitchfest…🤣…I didn’t realise you were into that mate…but each to his own😉
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Post by cmillward20 on May 29, 2024 21:41:34 GMT
I agree look at all the best teams they have big packs Keen to see how Lewis plays Absolutely CM…but the big teams have the money to afford big tough fast international forwards…we don’t They do which is why we need to nail ours. King for example is way to hit and miss and in my opinion needs replacing with another big bopper that would help |
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Post by cmillward20 on May 29, 2024 21:47:40 GMT
From what I’ve seen of Lewis he’s not that small and I think he will go well. You get a lot of smaller props now like cotter but they normally pair with a unit. Ormondroyd when fit helps there. I think I major pack issues is there never all fit
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