We could do with more of them!

I'm quite happy with the current set of players to be honest, however it would be exciting to sign an unknown player that nobody has ever heard of!

We do not have a large squad and we do not have a reserve team- which I feel will effect us later in the year. I hope next year we have a reserve team if nothing but to keep our fringe players and have some local players involved like Chinny. Siddal is full of ex academy players and they nearly beat Swinton!
I feel we need to offer local players the chance to play in the reserves as there are some good players in the Pennine League and National Conference who for whatever reason not gone Pro as well as other former SL academy players who have not been kept on at Leeds, Wigan, Saints etc alongside the fringe players. It may not be the best comp but we need to have them playing.
Do we have cover if for instance, Watene, Wilson, Larder, Goddard, Penky and Haley are injured and James is back at Bradford? For me no. And I fell we will suffer because of this

See my earlier post



On that note, look how well Scott Law is doing for Cougars at the moment, picked along side Frank in this months RLW team of the month. Young talent will also benefit us when applying for Super League.

I believe it was Waddy Fax who first brought our attention to Chinny when he was scoring all Boothtowns points every season, he went to the Irish and scored a decent amount of their points last year, my worry about him was the fact that he hadn't been picked up by the bigger boys of Calderdale amateur rugby despite being so prolific at what has to be said were the lower echelons of local RL, I know there will have been family ties at the terriers but he probably left it too long to prove himself at a higher level, a big fish in a little pond if you will.

Always felt he needed to bulk up more and would certainly have benefitted from a reserve team this year as he wasn't quite 1st team yet, again possibly because he stayed at the lower levels for too long.

Good luck Chinny but try and pick a quality side in a high division rather than just taking the easy option with the smaller teams.