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Re: Luke Gale

Post by Tigerade » 08 Jan 2019, 11:10

How about Pita Godinet. Training at Hudds but not attached to anyone. One year deal playing at 9 with Milner and letting Macca move into the halfes?

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Post by Fumper27 » 08 Jan 2019, 11:31

Tigerade wrote:How about Pita Godinet. Training at Hudds but not attached to anyone. One year deal playing at 9 with Milner and letting Macca move into the halfes?
In today’s game, I think a 9 needs to be able to do 80 minutes, especially given there’s now only 8 interchanges allowed. Leave Milner at 13, interchanging with Massey / Foster

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by jackknife » 08 Jan 2019, 11:49

Tigerade wrote:How about Pita Godinet. Training at Hudds but not attached to anyone. One year deal playing at 9 with Milner and letting Macca move into the halfes?
Godinet can play half back aswell so we could leave mcshane where hes best.
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Re: Luke Gale

Post by tigerfeat » 08 Jan 2019, 12:08

if you forget everything else just on gales goal kicking alone its going to be a massive loss to us,this point few weeks to go to kick off cant see a lot of options out there who we could bring in to replace him
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Post by nottinghamtiger » 08 Jan 2019, 12:20

tigerfeat wrote:if you forget everything else just on gales goal kicking alone its going to be a massive loss to us,this point few weeks to go to kick off cant see a lot of options out there who we could bring in to replace him
Jackson Hastings.
He just seems to make sense to everyone.
Cas - we need a half who can kick. But we only need him for a year until Gale is back.
Hastings - he’s been clear that he only wants to stay in England for a year, so that arrangement suits him.
Salford - in danger of entering administration. If selling one player (who they only have contracted for a year) avoids this (and the points deduction that will make them relegation favourites) then it makes sense for them to sell.

Obviously, I don’t know the club’s finances. But with Hastings only having a year’s contract at Salford and the fact they are staring down the barrel of administration, they won’t be able to command a massive fee. Likewise, we’re only guessing where we are with the salary cap, but if Gale doesn’t play all season he won’t count anyway.

Can we afford to pay a transfer fee and a salary to someone to cover for an injured player? Who knows. Can we afford not to though?

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by tigerfeat » 08 Jan 2019, 12:23

hastings i rate highly it would be great if we were thinking along those lines ...
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Re: Luke Gale

Post by Johnlewis1920 » 08 Jan 2019, 12:32

Firstly all the very best for Luke to fully recover
Regards Luke going to miss 2019 season yes it’s a blow but he did not play a big part in last seasons third place which was a good season Luke’s absence was a big factor in Jake Truman blossoming so before panicking and recruiting a substandard fill in let’s give the young guys a opportunity
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Post by The Firm » 08 Jan 2019, 12:36

nottinghamtiger wrote:
tigerfeat wrote:if you forget everything else just on gales goal kicking alone its going to be a massive loss to us,this point few weeks to go to kick off cant see a lot of options out there who we could bring in to replace him
Jackson Hastings.
He just seems to make sense to everyone.
Cas - we need a half who can kick. But we only need him for a year until Gale is back.
Hastings - he’s been clear that he only wants to stay in England for a year, so that arrangement suits him.
Salford - in danger of entering administration. If selling one player (who they only have contracted for a year) avoids this (and the points deduction that will make them relegation favourites) then it makes sense for them to sell.

Obviously, I don’t know the club’s finances. But with Hastings only having a year’s contract at Salford and the fact they are staring down the barrel of administration, they won’t be able to command a massive fee. Likewise, we’re only guessing where we are with the salary cap, but if Gale doesn’t play all season he won’t count anyway.

Can we afford to pay a transfer fee and a salary to someone to cover for an injured player? Who knows. Can we afford not to though?
This would be the perfect scenario, signing him would be the difference of making the top 3 or 4 and going with what we have and probably looking at around 7th. Gales goalkicking and drop goals alone is probably worth 5/6 points a season and inreckon that mid-table will be congested. Four places in the table is worth 100k in prize money alone, thats without better attendances coming from better performances and maybe a run at the cup.

We should dangle the carrot to Salford at the very least. In fact 100K & Wardle for Hastings & Sau would be very nice indeed.

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by tigerfeat » 08 Jan 2019, 12:39

id try to get evalds as well while were at it :dance:
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Post by nottinghamtiger » 08 Jan 2019, 12:41

The Firm wrote:
nottinghamtiger wrote:
tigerfeat wrote:if you forget everything else just on gales goal kicking alone its going to be a massive loss to us,this point few weeks to go to kick off cant see a lot of options out there who we could bring in to replace him
Jackson Hastings.
He just seems to make sense to everyone.
Cas - we need a half who can kick. But we only need him for a year until Gale is back.
Hastings - he’s been clear that he only wants to stay in England for a year, so that arrangement suits him.
Salford - in danger of entering administration. If selling one player (who they only have contracted for a year) avoids this (and the points deduction that will make them relegation favourites) then it makes sense for them to sell.

Obviously, I don’t know the club’s finances. But with Hastings only having a year’s contract at Salford and the fact they are staring down the barrel of administration, they won’t be able to command a massive fee. Likewise, we’re only guessing where we are with the salary cap, but if Gale doesn’t play all season he won’t count anyway.

Can we afford to pay a transfer fee and a salary to someone to cover for an injured player? Who knows. Can we afford not to though?
This would be the perfect scenario, signing him would be the difference of making the top 3 or 4 and going with what we have and probably looking at around 7th. Gales goalkicking and drop goals alone is probably worth 5/6 points a season and inreckon that mid-table will be congested. Four places in the table is worth 100k in prize money alone, thats without better attendances coming from better performances and maybe a run at the cup.

We should dangle the carrot to Salford at the very least. In fact 100K & Wardle for Hastings & Sau would be very nice indeed.
We only have one place on the non-fed quota though, so we can’t have both.

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Post by Mysterio » 08 Jan 2019, 13:27

Can’t believe folks actually can make themselves believe Jackson Hastings would jump ship at this stage.
Then again who am I to say. It’s easy to get excited ha ha
We need to get the cheque book out
Thing is Luke’s wages will be covered by insurance and him taken off the salary cap so that’s at least 100k to spend on the cap.
There’ll definitely be an up and coming Aussie half back we’ll uncover. Meanwhile , and no I’m not joking, would rangi be intertested or capable?
Other than that, brad Davis! Lol

There’ll definitely be a half back on their way before long.
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Re: Luke Gale

Post by The Firm » 08 Jan 2019, 13:37

nottinghamtiger wrote:
The Firm wrote:
nottinghamtiger wrote:
tigerfeat wrote:if you forget everything else just on gales goal kicking alone its going to be a massive loss to us,this point few weeks to go to kick off cant see a lot of options out there who we could bring in to replace him
Jackson Hastings.
He just seems to make sense to everyone.
Cas - we need a half who can kick. But we only need him for a year until Gale is back.
Hastings - he’s been clear that he only wants to stay in England for a year, so that arrangement suits him.
Salford - in danger of entering administration. If selling one player (who they only have contracted for a year) avoids this (and the points deduction that will make them relegation favourites) then it makes sense for them to sell.

Obviously, I don’t know the club’s finances. But with Hastings only having a year’s contract at Salford and the fact they are staring down the barrel of administration, they won’t be able to command a massive fee. Likewise, we’re only guessing where we are with the salary cap, but if Gale doesn’t play all season he won’t count anyway.

Can we afford to pay a transfer fee and a salary to someone to cover for an injured player? Who knows. Can we afford not to though?
This would be the perfect scenario, signing him would be the difference of making the top 3 or 4 and going with what we have and probably looking at around 7th. Gales goalkicking and drop goals alone is probably worth 5/6 points a season and inreckon that mid-table will be congested. Four places in the table is worth 100k in prize money alone, thats without better attendances coming from better performances and maybe a run at the cup.

We should dangle the carrot to Salford at the very least. In fact 100K & Wardle for Hastings & Sau would be very nice indeed.
We only have one place on the non-fed quota though, so we can’t have both.
Good point. Evalds instead of Sau then and switch Peanut to centre.

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by nottinghamtiger » 08 Jan 2019, 13:38

Mysterio wrote:Can’t believe folks actually can make themselves believe Jackson Hastings would jump ship at this stage.
Then again who am I to say. It’s easy to get excited ha ha
We need to get the cheque book out
Thing is Luke’s wages will be covered by insurance and him taken off the salary cap so that’s at least 100k to spend on the cap.
There’ll definitely be an up and coming Aussie half back we’ll uncover. Meanwhile , and no I’m not joking, would rangi be intertested or capable?
Other than that, brad Davis! Lol

There’ll definitely be a half back on their way before long.
If Salford have the choice of selling him or going into administration, they’ll be encouraging him to leave. Even without him they are far better than London and should survive in SL. Go into administration and cop a points deduction and everything changes, they’ll be favourites for the drop I’d imagine. They won’t take that risk for one player who has already said he’s going home in 2020 whatever happens.
Rangi got a full 2 year ban, so he can’t play again until the end of July. I think he blew his last chance at Cas though.

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Post by Sharlotiger » 08 Jan 2019, 14:34

How about Liam Finn, goal kicking half who knows how we play.

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Post by lidds » 08 Jan 2019, 14:35

Mysterio wrote:Can’t believe folks actually can make themselves believe Jackson Hastings would jump ship at this stage.
Then again who am I to say. It’s easy to get excited ha ha
We need to get the cheque book out
Thing is Luke’s wages will be covered by insurance and him taken off the salary cap so that’s at least 100k to spend on the cap.
There’ll definitely be an up and coming Aussie half back we’ll uncover. Meanwhile , and no I’m not joking, would rangi be intertested or capable?
Other than that, brad Davis! Lol

There’ll definitely be a half back on their way before long.
Rangi is still banned till halfway through this year

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Post by Tigerwood posse » 08 Jan 2019, 14:46

Tigerade wrote:How about Pita Godinet. Training at Hudds but not attached to anyone. One year deal playing at 9 with Milner and letting Macca move into the halfes?
Good shout is that, he is decent!! defo better than Ellis/aston or Roberts

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by heritage1926 » 08 Jan 2019, 14:50

Or maybe, we give Ashton a go, the lads absolutely chomping at the bit to play for us. Danny Richardson didn't do too badly last season when thrown in.

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by flow » 08 Jan 2019, 15:11

heritage1926 wrote:Or maybe, we give Ashton a go, the lads absolutely chomping at the bit to play for us. Danny Richardson didn't do too badly last season when thrown in.
Just backed cory ashton man off steel with him chomping

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by Fryston Tiger » 08 Jan 2019, 15:24

Confirmation of Luke Gale's injury. Will have surgery this week.
Best case 6 months. Worst case a year.

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Re: Luke Gale

Post by heritage1926 » 08 Jan 2019, 15:28

So 6 months takes him to July, that's without any kind of training what so ever. Permitting that he fully recovers and is allowed back training, he's have to have at least 3 months under his belt after half a year off. That takes him to October, there's just no way he can be match fit this year.

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