No, its only you that has made that assessment.

Ive never seen him play so I'm not passing comment on how good he is, it would be silly as I've yet to see him play.

I was just making comment due to the fact most on here certainly want him and seem to really rate him but nobody seen him play.

I hope he's a world beater!

Looking at his stats he probably is. I'm not sure it's worth forking out a quota spot for that.

I think we have signed him, last Sunday I believe. At 6' 5' and 16s 10lb, fairly quick and agressive certainly got the attributes.
Highly rated if you search around the web sites. On the club radar last 6 months i believe, just finished a degree so he,s no Fozzard.

According to a tweet I saw before, Walmsley has signed a 4 year deal with us and will be a on dual reg contract next season.

If he is an impact prop that's another hole filled, we've not really had an impact prop for some time now. I'm thinking Fasavalu.

Now maurie was a real impact prop.

LMS has provided impact from the bench this year, not the sort that maurie or Vila brought but he does lift us when he comes on with his aggression.

I think LMS was in our top 3 players this year.

Well there is always that young winger at London we are looking at.... www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... mari-caro/ f*** The quota problem is easy to solve, it involves a Boeing 747. Not sure an impact player is what we need but there are plenty of other props out there. Warmsley, Greenwood and Forster should improve things next year either way. But with some of the dead wood in the squad at the moment it is hard to see how they are going to get a look in.

Well there is always that young winger at London we are looking at.... www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... mari-caro/ f*** The quota problem is easy to solve, it involves a Boeing 747. Not sure an impact player is what we need but there are plenty of other props out there. Warmsley, Greenwood and Forster should improve things next year either way. But with some of the dead wood in the squad at the moment it is hard to see how they are going to get a look in.

Yup, read that on the rumours thread. Any idea what the dual reg is about? Why would he benefit more playing for them than us?

Saints do sign players on Sundays.

Easy, as long as the coach has the balls to drop a bit of that dead wood once in a while...

Quote ="Noel Cleal"Well there is always that young winger at London we are looking at.... www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... mari-caro/ f*** The quota problem is easy to solve, it involves a Boeing 747. Not sure an impact player is what we need but there are plenty of other props out there. Warmsley, Greenwood and Forster should improve things next year either way. But with some of the dead wood in the squad at the moment it is hard to see how they are going to get a look in.'" Dixon looks the better winger from what little I have seen.

Quote ="Noel Cleal"Well there is always that young winger at London we are looking at.... www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... mari-caro/ f*** The quota problem is easy to solve, it involves a Boeing 747. Not sure an impact player is what we need but there are plenty of other props out there. Warmsley, Greenwood and Forster should improve things next year either way. But with some of the dead wood in the squad at the moment it is hard to see how they are going to get a look in.'" Dixon looks the better winger from what little I have seen.

Agreed.

Looks a cracking player. Sign him up.

Understand McManus is not pushing him too quickly, part time at first and still dual reg with Batley. Then he wants the lad to live over this side of the pennines sometime in the season. Don,t know which part of the season he is expected to show, others might be able to confirm.

So we've now got 5 senior props + Walmsley.
I'd say this means the end of the road for Magennis who, imo, has struggled to physically compete against SL packs. Back up will come for the 3 promising junior props Walker,Hand and Forster, from which I'd expect one of to go on Dual Reg next year.

Possibly, although we have to remember that next year is the last year for TP and Perry, so this maybe thinking ahead more. I still think Magennis will need to improve, but it's not nessasarily the end. Effectively he's got a year to get it right, I think Forster has 2 years to make an impact. If neither can match it then we maybe looking to sign another prop next year.

Forster will come through before Magennis now. This year was Magennis' chance for me as Forster will no doubt become a better prop as he develops in my eyes.

I've only seen him once I think at the home game against Wakey. He may have had other bit roles, but that was the one where I noticed him. A big lad and goes in hard. In a way this year although it may have been magennis chance to shine, his lack of air time has been hampered the same way Gaskell, Foster, Ashe etc have. We have gone with tried and tested since Royce, that's not a critism, it is what we needed to stop the rot. But under the circumstances where performance does not count, just experience. What else can they do??

I think Magennis has 1 year left on contract doesn't he?

He looked like he had the making of at least ebing a decent yard winner and seemed much more capable of driving against a Super league pack compared to Magennis who, whilst i don't question his commitment, is consistantly stopped short and put on his back.

Magennis is not good enough at prop, I'd have let him go before Dixon myself.

Forster needs to make an impact within 2 years? He's only 20, progressing to a regular bench player will bench player within that time will be enough for me.

I'd also agree with the comment about stopping the rot, but that was stopped after a month. The lack of progression since then has hampered the club and the progression of youngsters within the squad for me. A situation that I hope will be rectified next year.

When Hudds were still firing I watched them dismantle Cas with a wild away of attacking options - i was very impressed, even though the opposition wasn'tthe best, the number of ways they took it to them really ripped the defence up.
Around the same time (or so i recall) we rolled over Wakey at home. Despite completely dominating them in the forwards, we still played completely narrow to the ruck, with all our breaks coming from short passes and offloads in the middle. We still scored a hat full, but in the most unimaginative manner. Unfortunatley, when we came up against better teams (Wigan), we weren't afforded the same freedom up the middle and subsequently had nothing to throw at them, looking woeful if we tried anything expansive.

By an impact I mean to get into the first team. Not to be a dream team player.



I think if you are regularly getting on the bench then you have made an impact, to get a new contract.

Fair enough

Good analysis.