Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:11 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

gonna be honest, i'm not seeing the mark gleeson thing.

Removed on appeal. In my defence, he looked like a bag of bones with no hope of making the first team and went on to to play for us for a while.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:05 pm  

Barbed Wire wrote:

Removed on appeal. In my defence, he looked like a bag of bones with no hope of making the first team and went on to to play for us for a while.

fair play, i can think of 1 or 2 ppl on here who would rage after seeing his name in a positive thread

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:08 pm  

Michael Monaghan for me, i didn't know F all about him and he didn't do much at 7. But once he moved to 9 he was Superb for us. Same with Chris Hicks, knew nothing about him but he's one of the best wingers i've ever personally seen play for us.

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:17 pm  

Graham Appoooooo

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:35 pm  

Captain Hook wrote:

Chris Hicks thought he was a make weight turned out to be a fantastic winger.

100% this. When I first saw him with Monas and King in Churchills, Hicks had a belly on him and looked all the ‘just the tag on’ people thought of him…
But wow, he was the best of the 3 and by some margin from the initial season.
He is my lads favourite player because this hatrick at Wembley.

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:39 pm  

Nick Fozzard was far better at Saints. He was forever knocking on for us.

Halliwell could be a good shout and more recently Wardle….

But the most obvious no one has picked up on…

BOB JACKSON

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 9:37 pm  

Halliwell lol

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 10:50 pm  

How about the young centre/ winger we bought from Wakefield who went on to be an outstanding second row forward......Ben Westwood

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:12 pm  

Douglas Black wrote:

Halliwell lol

He was pretty useful and stood out in a pant team. I recall he was only on lone that first spell. Wasn’t anywhere near as good during his second spell.
I could say the same about Greg Mackey too.

Re: Out of season mind occupier #10 - Pleasant surprise : Tue Jan 17, 2023 7:52 am  

Alan Bateman & Kevin Ellis - RU recruits that we didn't know much about, I certainly didn't expect much from, but turned out to be decent signings (or excellent in the case of Bateman!)