Not quite. The way they carry the ball, the hand-off and the direction of the step is very pertinent to the side on which they play.

i think if you put yeaman into the right centre position, he'd cope admirably

I rate Hunt better than Webb. He is younger as well.

Slater would be the ultimate signing, but he has the Queensland and Kangaroo jersey for the next decade and so does Thurston, so its unlikely they would ever give up that to sign for Wire.

All we need is a solid base of local players who'll work their socks off and a couple of very good play makers. We should be able to get the solid players from our Academys, the play makers can come from anywhere but I don't see why Australia needs to be our default setting.

Two years ago we had 75 teams playing in the North West Counties 16-18 league x 20 players per squad = 1500 players just in the North West not counting other areas and the younger age groups.. You can't tell me there aren't players in there who can't do the job. We do have a pool of talent.

2 words; Celery Cap

What about it?

Wouldn't mind Wild or Purdham.

Although we would need a bring in a quality centre to replace Gleeson, as you don't get many centres as good as Gleeson in SL. We'd miss him.

And Although Lockyer would be great signing, he won't be here in SL for 3 or 4 years, he'd be more of a stop gap rather than replacing Briers. I'd like to us aim for a younger/promising player to enable him to blend into the squad, (as we did with Briers) i think thats what you need in such as pivotal position. You can't to sign a player these days and expect him to settle in straight away.

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Looks like the Goons and Hull KR are interested in Lockyer www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... per_league

Looks like the Goons and Hull KR are interested in Lockyer www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... per_league

For a start it's Yeaman, not Yeoman or Yeamen.

Secondly, Kirk has quoted in the daily mail. That he feels fitter than ever before and it was 2006 when he was showing his class.

Tbh I can't see Yeaman leaving Hull at all, I think he will be a one club man. Yeaman is suited to the left more, he often uses a stiff arm to stop the opposition and to great affect most times. Unfortunately he just needs to pass to his winger more often.

Can he have his hook back, please?

No.

Maurie Fa'asavalu?

That's a big name.

Louie McCarthy Scarsbrook, now thats a massive name

Joe Mbu

Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?

Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?

Its a tough one. If its deemed that we don't have any youngsters in this position ready to make the step up, or are indeed not good enough to make the step up yet. Then I would say yes, bring him in for a year or two.

Quote ="Wirral Wire"Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?'" No. next..

Quote ="Wirral Wire"Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?'" No. next..

The thing that worries me about our right hand side is that within 2 years we could lose Gleeson, Briers and probably Hicks.

Gleeson will be a big loss, but if we have Briers then it isn;t as big a loss, as Briers deserves a lot of credit for putting players into space out wide with his crisp passing. We were always strong with Grose and Smyth on the right, and I believe much of it was down to Briers.

Shenton was the last right sided centre which genuinely impressed me in this country. He ripped King to pieces last year at our place. I haven't seen that much of him tbh so I don't know if that's his regular standard, but he certainly has potential.

I like some of the other names mentioned here too for other British players:
LMS, Wild, Purdham, Westerman, it may also be worth keeping an eye on Myler at Salford.

Quote ="Wirral Wire"Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?'" No I don't think we should. He's only whoring himself around super league for a end of career pay boost.

Quote ="Wirral Wire"Darren Lockyear said he is intersested in playing in England next year news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 835279.stm Should we have a go?'" No I don't think we should. He's only whoring himself around super league for a end of career pay boost.

If someone says they want to play in Britain for a year or 2, steer clear.

i wouldnt touch him with a barge pole...

I'd take him for sure, I'd try to get a British halfback first, a young one, like Myler, but if they weren't available I'd happily take Lockyer, providing it wasn't prohibative salary cap wise to chasing other targets. If you were just say, replacing Gleesons salary for instance, then I think it'd be a great move for us.

He'd be the best halfback in the league, he's a leader, he'd command respect from everyone, he's a winner and he's unbelievably talented. We signed Langer in the latter end of his career, he was fantastic. We would have had Johns, so I see no reason why age should put us off, he's 32 sure, but I think sometimes we get caught up in this age thing as though 'once you hit 30 your done', lots of overseas players have come over here 30+ done really well, Renouf, Langer, Lam, Rauhihi, Darren Smith, Brad Drew, Glenn Morrison off the top of my head.

For me, the question is, Do I think Darren Lockyer would improve us ? Yep. We all talk about mentality, having winners, cultures in the club etc, I think this bloke would be a great leader.