With Finn we would get a player who can kick goals and has a great kicking game taking pressure off Miller. Our kicking game was appalling last season and we missed Sykes from the year before

Yep, Finn may not be the 'marquee' signing but people have to ask themselves, if the option is to take Finn or T.Smith, who would you take?

We want players who play with heart n commitment every game and are a good example to kids on AND off the pitch.

Exactly and I know what your first post was all about, I was agreeing with you.
Finn would probably cost about half of T.Smith but be twice the value.
Don't run me over on your bike next time you see me at Pinders!

Sadly you can only get so far with heart and commitment, you name me a team in SL who did well without any skill players. Negative I know but also the truth, we all remember the five drives and a kick that dogged Kear towards the end and how many of us want to go back to that.

Does the season start next week?

Ha ha you're lucky I saw u and applied brakes

Yeah n too many times last year there were players out there who lacked the heart n commitment n look where it got us. Miller for instance has the skill and can use to max if he is relieved of the pressure of kicking for field position etc

Are you going to keep this up all next season. It's getting boring now.

Liam Finn has 12 months left on his contract hasn't he ? Unless Cas are signing a TOP half back, surely Finn's kicking game alone, is worth a few points a season. Guess he's a bit like Leigh's (our) Martin Ridyard, not the quickest, but his brain makes up for it...BIG style !

I think you are being very selective about which bits of the nutjob thread you read. I for one was very supportive when we signed Finn. He's done a fantastic job at leading us around the field and his stats speak for themselves. Maybe we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves at Cas but Gale and Roberts are a match for any halves in SL Luke Dorn is a quality replacement and if rumours of Hampshire signing are true then Finn would only get games as a replacement hooker (he's done a good job there before) He's the type of signing that an astute coach would look at, a good player that finds better players ahead of him. Please don't think I'm saying we are far in front of Wakey, we just have a glut of good halves.

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I hope the rumours are true and we have signed him.

Touch wood we will be recruiting two types of players. 1: those that add to the starting 13 I.e .pomeroy and toupu. 2: those that add to the Squad I.e. shulver and Morris.

Finn I think could fit into both categories as I think his ability to be a versatile pivot puts us in good stead ( with the potential to add maybe another 7 to the team), alternativley Id have no objections to him having the 7 shirt.

People hoping for a sidestepping, maverick, super paced 7 need to get real. Imho What this team needs is organisation and a kicking game. Finn brings that to the table as well as a sound understanding of the game in general.

This thread very much reminds me of one a few years ago on the Wigan forum, when Wigan were linked with Deacon.

Similar style of player, similar stage of his career, felt not good enough by the majority of Wigan fans (including me) and felt his time was up by Bradford fans.

He basically on his own due to his in field control, kicking game and game management turned Wigan around on his own. I don't think Finn is the same quality as Deacon was but he does have the same core style and would be a shrewd signing in my opinion for a team lacking direction.

Yeah, but he's not Cooper Cronk, which it appears some were expecting!?

So you call it a "Nut job forum" yet in the next sentence you want us to take it's opinions seriously - is there not a huge contradiction in your post?

When you look at it like that I would accept your point. However it is commonly known as that on here so I have used that 'label'
and by doing so you have clearly recognised the forum I was referring to.

We all call it the nutjob forum. Think of it a bit like Fev fans calling themselves Flatcappers.

Fair enough, but I respect though don't agree with your opinion on Finn with or without the nut jobs as back up

It remains a RL Fans phenomenon that as soon as a player is rumoured to be signing for a rival club, supporters will line up to say how crap he is; ramp that up even more when the clubs involved are local rivals, with a heightened degree of enmity.

The real story is that Finn is a steady player who improved immeasurably under Powell at Cas; he may no longer fit what they want to achieve, or they may have better, but he certainly isn't crap - and he would be a good fit for us, given our desperate need for someone to steer us around the park and finish off a set with something more than a grubber to nothing or a hail mary cut-out pass.

Signed 2 year deal,welcome back to Wakey Liam

sorry if this has been done.

Now that its official i can add my name to the list of possitives. Watching him play and listening on radio i thought he was very influential in the succesful season cas had last /this year so looking forward to seeing him in the red, white and blue.

I think that is really good news.
The team is building well.

Lets see what the cas reject squad have to say.
That's ok by me.

Can't for the life of me see where the comparison is between been called a flat capper and a nutjob


and fwiw I can't remember seeing him have a bad game for Cas in the limited times I've seen him play, lets give him a chance before being destroyed on here.