Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:24 pm  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

I was dissapointed when we let him go, but looking back, it was the best move for him. He's worked hard and got himself in much better condition, he's got regular game time, won championship young player of the year and earned himself a move to widnes...He really couldnt of done any more with the move.

He's on a 1 year deal at widnes, if he maintains his current trajectory, he'l be hot property for next season. He's a better player than Scurr at Bradford imo, and has a much higher ceiling than the likes of Matty English, again imo. Lads Tylers size dont generally move like he can. I would be shocked if we arnt keeping close tabs on him, good fed trained props are like golddust, if we had 3 of the best young ones, all with natural size and athletic, we'd be in great shape going forward.

Im coming across like his agent, but i do think he's going to be a good prop for a superleague team pretty soon, i hope its us.

Hope you are right and trust that you are. I always liked the look of him too, but don't profess to a shrewd judge of the juniors. Three home made ones and three tough cookies from the NRL would be about right prop wise.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:45 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

Cheers bud. I don't recall him having a poor skill level or anything either, just a big athletic kid who's hard to handle. Agree re. Scurr and English too - the latter does have a really good engine and a little bit of James Graham about him almost.

I see Hird is named in the side for Bradford as per...

Theres only one James Graham Jimbo. I like Matty English, hes far better than Tyler, but James Graham he aint. Graham was something out of the ordinary.

Liked Tyler he was and is a nice kid, probably too nice on the pitch. A move away was a good thing for him. I doubt Leeds would be looking for him to return going forward

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:16 pm  

So which of our 4 new signings do you guys expect to make the most different to us this year?

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:30 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

So which of our 4 new signings do you guys expect to make the most different to us this year?

Would have to go with sezer

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:38 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

Hope you are right and trust that you are. I always liked the look of him too, but don't profess to a shrewd judge of the juniors. Three home made ones and three tough cookies from the NRL would be about right prop wise.

I hope I am too, seems a good character aswel as a good player.

Its up to him to keep up his current rate of improvement, Academy rugby to championship young player of the year in one season is a terrific start, he's got the physical traits and explosive plays a lot of SL props havnt got, its all about continuing to round out his game and be consistent with the bread and butter of prop forward play.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:39 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

So which of our 4 new signings do you guys expect to make the most different to us this year?

Short term Sezer if he stays fit. Long term Bentley.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:52 pm  

KaeruJim wrote:

So which of our 4 new signings do you guys expect to make the most different to us this year?

Bit of a cheat but really hoping that Sezer and Austin make it as a pair. It's been a long time since we've had two fully functioning halves. Desperately hoping Fusitu'a is a hero and not a zero. Still struggling to detect his presence in training clips the club puts out.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 5:14 pm  

ArthurClues wrote:

Bit of a cheat but really hoping that Sezer and Austin make it as a pair. It's been a long time since we've had two fully functioning halves. Desperately hoping Fusitu'a is a hero and not a zero. Still struggling to detect his presence in training clips the club puts out.

You do get the feeling this is quite a gamble by the club re Fusitua. Fingers crossed.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:01 pm  

FGB wrote:

You do get the feeling this is quite a gamble by the club re Fusitua. Fingers crossed.

All signings are gambles and may or may not work but Fusitua has a decent strike rate in NRL, it was a position of need and hes probably as big a name as we couldve got. Always a risk, especially with overseas that it wont work out, particularly in pandemic times but only time will tell.

Hopefully all 4 signings work out and move us up a level or 3.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Sat Jan 22, 2022 12:32 am  

I don't quite get the worries over Fusitu'a not being in pre-season games. Our halfbacks need game time, a winger not so much. I just hope that especially with our new half backs we don't waste his attacking threat by using him as a bettering ram - if he's in the right shape a heck of a lot of our attacking thought has to be about creating space for him.