i was worried for a minute i thought it was going to be Mr Clay good luck lad thanks for your efforts www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/G ... 5069041.jp

i was worried for a minute i thought it was going to be Mr Clay good luck lad thanks for your efforts www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/G ... 5069041.jp

Likewise when I saw the headline on the Worrier site,

Good Luck in the future Graham.

I paniced too!

Good luck Chinny!

This exactly the problem with not running a second team. We have nowhere for the players, who are not picked, to play and demonstrate to the coaching staff that they are first team choices.

I know the finance behind it, but...

But his decision was work commitments...

I think it was one of the posters on here who PM'd me with Chinnys stats while playing for Boothtown Terriers and I sent them on to the coaching staff. I think that's where the club first got to know about him.

Just goes to show the important role the fans play.

Good luck Chinny.

Can totally understand his decision, best of luck in the future. Glad the club has kept his registration because he is a very talented player and I would rather him play FOR us than AGAINST us.

are you been serious.

The lack of reserve team and the team training in Rochdale are factors here.

I was actually.

If he says it'd due to not being able to make training, that's good enough for me.

He was at the irish for a couple of years before his crack at the pro game Yob... Think its Charlesworth sr whos up at the Terriers.

Prior to which he was at Boothtown with his dad

Last season was his 1st season at Irish

Quote ="shauny2002123"i was worried for a minute i thought it was going to be Mr Clay good luck lad thanks for your efforts www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/G ... 5069041.jp'" Good luck to the lad, its disappointing to see him go on one first team performance when tbh he did look a bit too small. But that was just his first game and given more game time who knows???

Quote ="shauny2002123"i was worried for a minute i thought it was going to be Mr Clay good luck lad thanks for your efforts www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/G ... 5069041.jp'" Good luck to the lad, its disappointing to see him go on one first team performance when tbh he did look a bit too small. But that was just his first game and given more game time who knows???

It'll have been at least 18 months ago, possibly 2 years ago now and I'm positive it was Charlesworth and no it wouldn't have been Snr Maverick.

The stats didn't mean much to me, but even I could see that they stood out a mile. If it wasn't Charlesworth WE NEED THAT GUY

We seem to be talking a lot about having a "big squad" this year, but in my opinion we don't really compatred to other Championship clubs.

With Graham departing we now only have 22 players at the club. This gives us a team with 5 reserves. If we were to get a couple of injuries, we would be very low indeed on numbers, and cutting it close to having a fully fit team.

Again, this is probably linked in with the fact that we don't have a reserve side, but really we could do with a few more heads to be safe. However, the 22 players we do have are all quality players, and I would be confident that any combination of 17 could do the job for us. I just feel we could do with one or two "Pay as you play" backup players that could fill a gap if needed.

Other Championship clubs have 30+ players, maybe not as good as ours but they have the numbers if needed.

Thoughts. . .

On the other hand, sad to see Graham go, looked promising, but best of luck with his future endeavours!

Our under cover scout.

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.