Transfers Rumours

[Teh Mite]

Worst kept secret in rugby is Meehan is sniffing around Geraghty like a dog on heat.

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

Was Geraghty not rumoured to be off to France? Bayonne as far as I recall. A change will do him good wherever he goes.

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Was Geraghty not rumoured to be off to France? Bayonne as far as I recall. A change will do him good wherever he goes.

Along with every half decent, and some not even close to decent, UK based player.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Eifion Lewis-Roberts AND Karena Wihongi to Toulon
Leaving us with Tony Buckley and a 20yr old Henry Thomas on the tighthead
Blaaaargh
Why does PSA insist on taking everyone from Sale?!

 

[Teh Mite]

Buckley scored this evening if it cheers you up!

 

[TRF_Cymro]

I thought Karena Wihongi was off elsewhere in France!

 

[Bryan Badonde]

Losing Robinson would be a massive loss especially as it now looks like glaws are headed somewhere good, however I think Burns has great potential in him. Would rather see Daniel Bowden come to us rather than Lamb, a more steady and effective option and Lamb has a bad attitude in my opinion.

 

[Peat]

Eifion Lewis-Roberts AND Karena Wihongi to Toulon
Leaving us with Tony Buckley and a 20yr old Henry Thomas on the tighthead
Blaaaargh
Why does PSA insist on taking everyone from Sale?!

Don't you have some very promising 23 year old th whose career has been stalled through injury? Forster or something?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Kinda,
Jack Forster - His first game back is tomorrow (on the bench vs Quins) - he's a decent prop but I don't think he'll ever be a world beater
Completely forgotten about him tbh
Still, the point stands - We've lost our two main choice tightheads, kept the fringe players, and brought in one who can't scrummage

Hopefully Thomas or Forster can step their game up now they're going to get lots more game time



Aaaaallllssssooooo apparently the reason Sale aren't getting a big stack o' cash to release Roberts from his contract, it's because we're having someone off them
My moneys on Dean Schofield returning

 

[munstermuffin]

Buckley scored this evening if it cheers you up!

On top of that he had fine game in loose and was superb in scrum

 

[Teh Mite]

Hardly a huge achievement against Edinburgh.

 

[munstermuffin]

Probably not a huge achievement but it shows he can do it

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

Probably not a huge achievement but it shows he can do it

.........against weak teams. I fully expect him to do okay against the Worcesters, Leeds', Newcastles, Exeters, Baths and Gloucesters of this world next season. It'll be a different story when he faces team like Leicester and Northampton.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Don't know about that,
Matt Mullan (Worcester) and John Golding (Falcons) are both very capable props, I expect him to have a problem against them
Baths front row, on it's day, could take down anyone (despite all of them being 50yrs+ old)

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

Don't know about that,
Matt Mullan (Worcester) and John Golding (Falcons) are both very capable props, I expect him to have a problem against them
Baths front row, on it's day, could take down anyone (despite all of them being 50yrs+ old)

Apparently Bath were one of the teams Sale beat for Buckley's signature.

I've heard Mullan is talented but never seen him back it up whenever I've seen Worcester play (admittedly not too often). Perhaps this is being overly simplistic but if he was a decent player, he would have left Worcester last summer and picked up a deal with a Premiership team. I know nothing about Golding but have heard the Newcastle scrum has been routinely destroyed this season (although that may have more to do with Tim Ryan).

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Fair point,
Mullans been out for (pretty much) ever but looked very handy before hand

 

[munstermuffin]

I think Buckley will be ok and won't be a huge disappointment, if Sale can get his head right then he is a decent scrummager it's just in Munster and Ireland he was given too much lee-way and got lazy and fell in to a cosh.

 

[Peat]

Apparently Bath were one of the teams Sale beat for Buckley's signature.

I've heard Mullan is talented but never seen him back it up whenever I've seen Worcester play (admittedly not too often). Perhaps this is being overly simplistic but if he was a decent player, he would have left Worcester last summer and picked up a deal with a Premiership team. I know nothing about Golding but have heard the Newcastle scrum has been routinely destroyed this season (although that may have more to do with Tim Ryan).

Kitchener has been the standout lock in the Saxons, yet he too stayed at Worcester. A lot of decent players stayed there to do the decent by them.

 

[Gavin]

Stephen Donald to Munster?

The NZRU's largest cost is player salaries. While several highly paid players are set to leave our shores later this year which will save them some money – the latest rumours include Chiefs first five Stephen Donald is off to Munster and Mils Muliaina to Japan after the world cup – three of the NZRU's highest paid players, Richie McCaw, Dan Carter (above) and Ma'a Nonu, are set to stay. Carter was tipped to join Perpignan but the French club exhausted much of its budget recently when they signed Welshman James Hook.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/news/4680117/10m-loss-at-NZRU-but-Dan-Carter-will-stay

Please no.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Aha! Would get you back for offloading Buckley