but good luck to him eh bewildered.....

no way would he get three years with the rhinos and he needed to think about his family and all that......he would have left us at the end of 2011 unless he had one hell of a season.....

he has not impressed other than a couple of games this year but I think his game will pick up with the new challenge.....

Seems a strange one - but perhaps hooker is the new Full Back



It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. I wonder whether Godwin is being lined up to be the makeweight in a deal to bring in a quality half back. I hope so, because three first choice hookers and no scrum half seems a slightly odd notion ...

Not sure what this [ireally [/ibrings us unless, as been said, one of the current crop are moving on.

According to the League Weekly Potter is keen on bringing in the French half back Greseque..

So maybe a half back pairing of Greseque and Pryce? and the alternating Hookers being Le Estrange and Diskin..

I’ll believe this when I see it!!

If we sign any more hookers, we may as well move to Lumb Lane playing fields.

Come to think of it . . .

They stand on Thornton Road, the Hookers do now.........................Erm...so I was told

Please god no not Greseque he's not upto it much prefer to play Southernwood all season.

I've not seen much of Greseque personally..

It brings competition for place in the hookers. Which we don't currently have.

O'Brien is still too young. With that in mind, L'Estrange & Godwin are guaranteed to play every week when fit. Seems from the other positions that Potter doesn't like guaranteed places. Bringing Diskin in means 3 hookers fighting for 2 places.

If we assume nobody is going, except Orford, this now means that the ONLY positions we don't have competition for is the halves. With 2 or 3 signings left to come, that could be resolved too.

I don't think this signing necessarily means anyone is moving on.

Don't forget at times this season at Saints Potter had fat boy, Roby and Scott Moore all in his 17 man squad.

Not a player to ever catch my eye TBH. 3 years seems a bit long?

Should do a job though.

Didn't he get injuried playing for france the other week?

thats one off check boxes on the bulls job application form ticked off then.

I told you all he was coming.

Hmmmmm I was sold Sunday 12th September that he'd signed for us, so why the delay in getting this in the public domain? viewtopic.php?f=17&t=470728&start=0

Hmmmmm I was sold Sunday 12th September that he'd signed for us, so why the delay in getting this in the public domain? viewtopic.php?f=17&t=470728&start=0

It's on the T&A site now

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mick as I told you by txt, you were bound to guess one right eventually. Off the top off my head over last few months you've also told us we've definitely signed

chris flannery
francis meli
leon pryce
luke robinson
thomas bosc
willie mason
ewan dowes
kyle briggs
kurt gidley

and those are just the more memorable ones you've come out with. you've guessed 10 players and got 1 right so far. Hardly somthing to boast about

Never said Mason, Dowes, Gidley or Robbinson.

I did say Meli, Flannery, Pryce, Diskin, Bosc and Briggs (two of them will be at Odsal IMO).

I also called the Orford to Canberra rumour back in August after he was shown around the ground and it's facilities.

Still it's a poor show from myself this year 3/327815781542378954891237 right

Godwin is poor.

Diskin is a strange signing, for a variety of reasons. Been fairly poor for Rhinos this year, predominantly because he's not as effective as an interchange hooker. For him to be signed for this role at a club, which let's face it, is far poorer, indicates his financial offer must have been pretty good.

With 3 hookers on the roster, it's a strange one and a clear indication that either Wagga is moving on or either or into another position, namely 7. Which seems slightly odd.

Very strange one all round.

we're making assumption there that diskin will be the bench hooker though. Although my preference would be for l'estrange to start we shouldnt forget that he was always a bench hooker at manly. Maybe he actually prefers that role?.

like you say though cant see us keeping 3 hookers on roster purely as hookers. A few clubs have 3 hookers on the books but the 3rd is usually a young academy product on relatively little money. If diskin move goes through we have 3 who are SL level (admittedly godwin probably wouldnt command a starting spot anywhere but would certainly get a bench role somewhere in SL). Ones going to be playing in halves or moving on imo.

Not sure you'd give someone a three year deal just to provide competition, more like you have something more definite in mind. Whether this means Potter intends to use one of his 'hookers' in the halves is something only he knows of course, but I'd suspect it was a likely, if not exactly welcome, outcome. There are still far too many ifs and buts surrounding our halves for next season and the position isn't improved by a gutless number seven who won't publicly commit one way or the other but, apparently, continues to offer his services all round the antipodes.

Maybe the club DO know what is going on, but haven't announced it (well, it won't help ticket sales will it?) and are trying to work round it, who knows. We just have to hope the coach does have a plan and he's driving it through.

It's certainly out of left field, I guess it may all make sense when we see what else is in the pipeline.

IMO Diskin is better than Godwin. As I said I can see him becoming our starting No9.

More the fact that we offered him a 3 year deal and the Rhinos only gave him 1 year from what I understand, rather than the amount of money.

Dear god.