I expected to open this thread and find lots of negative comments so a pleasant surprise so far.

Don't think anyone reckons he is the finished article but he has plenty to offer and a good engine wiith age on his side

Personally I thought Matt was right to pick him ahead of Frank in the GF. Defensively we are better when he is on the field.

By this time next year all traces of ever having been a Bull with have been removed. We can rebuild him!

He defo will improve next season imo.

without doubt if we got rid he would turn out to be one of the best props around in a couple of years and no doubt haunt us in big way.

Good signing roll on 2010.

Don't they say that props don't mature until late 20's, early 30's? Time on his side. Plus another big factor about signing him up is that we are keeping as much continuity to the team as possible.

He can only improve with the likes of Aizue and Gene by his side, I'm glad, giving youth a chance and as previously said, Props get to their prime in their late 20s, Cherryholme is 21/22.

Great news as he his only young and will learn from Azuie and Gene. Would have been a nightmare to let him go and see him reach his potentiol else where

He will improve next season definately i'm glad we've got him signed up he's a good lad!

We have yet to see the best from young Cherryholme he will get better.

Congratulations Neil. You're in the right place to do well!

With the average age of our prop forwards, I think we could do with signing another player of Cherryholme's age to get some younger players introduced. Anyone out there?

"the coaching staff think he will step up another level next season" ... i should hope so, his level at the moment is terrible!

What a load of rubbish!
His defence is good and his workrate is high, i think you are one of those fans that only watches players going forward with the ball.

Well done Neil its a contract that you fully deserve.

Cant agree mate. Halifax have always been a club where the fans love the big barnstorming prop that takes four defenders with him but does nothing else. God knows why! Davidson was a typical example of this...he took the ball up and got a big rousing cheer and then stood around and did nothing else. Just before he left i watched him come off the bench for a 20 minute stint and he took the ball up once, gave away 3 penalties and made 2 tackles. Cherryholme works his backside off and will get better and deserves some credit for a young lad IMO. My point being that its easy to see a players failings as i might have done with Davidson but at least with Neil there are many positives to his game.

Yeh I understand he will improve, big guy with some speed and awareness. But they shouldn't have played him in the final.

Why?

Frank doesnt have the workrate of Cherryholme and in theory would have been exposed by the Barrow pack. I didnt think Cherryholme did too bad, its just that the one silly offload he made has been magnified.

MC said he'd picked Chezza over Frank because he felt they (Barra) would target him as his defence isn't as good as Chezza's. Add that to the rumour that Frank has been carrying a thigh injury for the latter part of the season and it made sense to play him. I'm glad he's here but like said earlier, he need to show some real aggression this year, without a penalty count hopefully.

Glad we've decided to give him another year, he may not be first choice but is a decent back-up.

Keighley fans rated him from a loan spell he had there while he was at the Bulls, and he aint done too bad for us, people have just made a big deal of his mistakes

he will go well next year. he has experainced Forwards like Aizue next year to guide him.

Is anyone leaving?

50k spare on cap... Aizue/Gene/Branighan/Maloney in, only Worrincy/Smith & James (loan) out?

Or did Penky & co take wage cuts?

They may well have taken a pay cut if they have been offered the security of a two year deal. Maybe SOC needs to look at who sorts out the wages at Widnes. dosent seem like your getting value for money.

missed that one, worrincy looking for new deal at fax as far as know.

Barker (Probably on decent money) left mid season as did Charlesworth (Likely on very low money) add to the fact Worrincy, Smith & James are gone

Do you know something about Worrincy that we don't?

colleague at work gets one of the rl papers , although i didnt see it , theres a mention about penky and Said possibly leaving although the reporter said that both are on watertight contracts.I suppose there is always going to be rumours/news of players leaving especially at this time of year.Both under contract so a transfer fee would be forthcoming - could be true although could be absolutely crap.

Sorry just basically copied what J20 said!