Confirmed: Knights sign Boyd for four years

Yeah, if Buderus signs, then I wouldn't be surprised if he and Hilder shares the load. Going by the style Bennet likes to play with.
 
Glad this has been sorted and both parties can move on. Be interesting to know who else is on the radar. With Sau and Tahu signed up forwards as mentioned seem to be the key. Patterson and De Gois will free up a lot of room, even if part of it is still counted in the cap (for Pato next year). Yeah it doesn't really surprise me we have room to make a few more decent buys this year.
 
Fungus said:
Yeah, if Buderus signs, then I wouldn't be surprised if he and Hilder shares the load. Going by the style Bennet likes to play with.
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Well Buderus/Hilder would be carbon copy of Priddis/Young.

Buderus/Gidley would be more like Priddis/Fien though (in saying though, Kurt will bring a few differences to Fein).

And Gidley/Hilder will be Fein/Young.

So there are plenty of directions Wayne can Go.

But we wont know until round 1 2012 unfortunately.
 
R_A said:
Glad this has been sorted and both parties can move on. Be interesting to know who else is on the radar. With Sau and Tahu signed up forwards as mentioned seem to be the key. Patterson and De Gois will free up a lot of room, even if part of it is still counted in the cap (for Pato next year). Yeah it doesn't really surprise me we have room to make a few more decent buys this year.
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Maybe guys like Jon Green and Adam Cuthbertson? We will just have to wait and see.

In regards to where Gids will play, i think he will be playing hooker even if we sign Buderus.
 
I'm 100% expecting Gidley to be in the halves with Mullen next year.

Having a young inexperienced half like Henry or Roberts controlling the team around the park doesn't seem like Bennett's MO.

I can see Bennett going the same route with Gidley as he did with both Hornby and Lockyer - fullback to half.

There's a similarity between both Hilder and Young too, as in they could play very similar roles within a team.

There's the spine right there, which is very comparable to the Dragons.

1. Boyd - Same
6. Mullen - Comparable to Soward as in before Bennett, both players had tremendous potential they hadn't reached yet.
7. Gidley - Comparable to Hornby as in they're both experienced players with great leadership qualities made obvious by their captaincy and they were both fullbacks prior to Bennett's arrival.
9. Hilder - Comparable to Young as they're both solid experienced players who you know exactly what you're going to get from them. Both hooker and lock capable too.
 
hunting140 said:
Any player that is as young as Darius Boyd with rep honours already is a great signing, full stop! Who knows were kurt is going to play? dont really care to be honest, with the team we are going to have and the depth we are going to be awesome.
Geeez im glad stone pointed out what our backline will be! I had no idea!! haha he seems like a little boy in a classroom saying "I know that! I know that!" and id be worried if i was jimmy mac, his wing spot is yet to be confirmed like aku's.
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Why did you quote my post with what you wrote. It has absolutely nothing to do with that i said, was a reply to what someone else had said and makes no sense compared to my post..

Sammyyy said:
But if WB is after Buderus that says to me Gids > Halves
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Why? Whats to say he will play as the starting Hooker. I both read and heard that he wouldnt want to be the starting hooker, implying Buderus = N0.14.

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I'm 100% expecting Gidley to be in the halves with Mullen next year.

Having a young inexperienced half like Henry or Roberts controlling the team around the park doesn't seem like Bennett's MO.

I can see Bennett going the same route with Gidley as he did with both Hornby and Lockyer - fullback to half.

There's a similarity between both Hilder and Young too, as in they could play very similar roles within a team.

There's the spine right there, which is very comparable to the Dragons.

1. Boyd - Same
6. Mullen - Comparable to Soward as in before Bennett, both players had tremendous potential they hadn't reached yet.
7. Gidley - Comparable to Hornby as in they're both experienced players with great leadership qualities made obvious by their captaincy and they were both fullbacks prior to Bennett's arrival.
9. Hilder - Comparable to Young as they're both solid experienced players who you know exactly what you're going to get from them. Both hooker and lock capable too.
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Whats to say that Bennett wont use Mullen has the experiened half playing halfback and leading the team, and playing the inexperienced half at 5/8. Like carbonclay said, bennett was interested/excited to work with the halves we have and with Henry. That would more imply a Henry/Mullen combo to me.

I wouldnt be blindly comparing what our team will be like compared to what the Dragons are. Theres nothing to suggest Bennett will follow the same gameplan for the knights as he did the dragons. Same as the plan with the Dragons wasnt a copy of what he did with the Broncos.
 
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Dude take a chill pill, have your say and move on, dont try and shove your thoughts into people and try and make them see it your way.
 
I don't like Hilder at hooker. He is way too predictable, doesn't offer much in attack and doesn't really kick well. He is a tackling machine and his best position is lock and that's where he should stay.
 
hunting140 said:
Dude take a chill pill, have your say and move on, dont try and shove your thoughts into people and try and make them see it your way.
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I was, and am making a logical and valid counter-reply to a point on a forum - which by the very definition is a place of decussion and debate. I dont know what your crying about.

As for your reply i quoted it was in regards to the fact that you quoted me talking about people's opinions and Thurston and started talking about BOyd and Gidley which had nothing to do with the post i had made. I was simply inquiring why you qutoed me when your response had nothing to do with anything i said.
 
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I'm 100% expecting Gidley to be in the halves with Mullen next year.

Having a young inexperienced half like Henry or Roberts controlling the team around the park doesn't seem like Bennett's MO.

I can see Bennett going the same route with Gidley as he did with both Hornby and Lockyer - fullback to half.

There's a similarity between both Hilder and Young too, as in they could play very similar roles within a team.

There's the spine right there, which is very comparable to the Dragons.

1. Boyd - Same
6. Mullen - Comparable to Soward as in before Bennett, both players had tremendous potential they hadn't reached yet.
7. Gidley - Comparable to Hornby as in they're both experienced players with great leadership qualities made obvious by their captaincy and they were both fullbacks prior to Bennett's arrival.
9. Hilder - Comparable to Young as they're both solid experienced players who you know exactly what you're going to get from them. Both hooker and lock capable too.
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My views exactly.

Don't mind the look of that there.

1. Boyd (Same)
6. Mullen (Soward)
7. Gidley (C) (Hornby)
9. Hilder (Young)

14. Buderus* (Fien)

Madman said:
I don't like Hilder at hooker. He is way too predictable, doesn't offer much in attack and doesn't really kick well. He is a tackling machine and his best position is lock and that's where he should stay.
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The Dragons have won a premiership with Young starting at hooker, he is no superstar in the dummy half position either, basically a Hilder clone.
 
I'm just glad that we may finally have a spine that will play consistently together and not be chopped and changed every week.
 
With Mullen out, Henry and Roberts should finish the season off in the halves IMO. See who the better player is. See who steps up. See if either of them are even worth persisting with or whether Gidley in the halves with Mullen next year is our only viable option. Realistically, we will struggle to make the 8 without Mullen anyway.

Besides, we will get better performances out of Gidley at fullback and Naiqama in the centres anyway. Playing them out of position at halfback and fullback respectively doesn't necessarily strengthen the team.

Oh and I'm not convinced Henry is better then Roberts either.

In saying that I understand Stone is our coach this season and he won't be our coach next season, so his only priority would be to win as many games as possible this season, not to have a steady gameplan for next.
 
Anybody who thinks WB is dumb enough to put hilder at 9 when clearly there are better options doesn't deserve to have an opinion on this.

CLEARLY Gidleys best position apart from 1 is 9..

CLEARLY Hilder is useless as an attacking hooker

CLEARLY we have two super talented youngsters aged 21 or younger who have shown glimpses brilliance at FG level. It would be a complete farce to deny either of them an opportunity to become great under Bennett in order to keep Hilder in a position that he is hopless in?? Not to mention that Gids makes a way better 9 than 7..

It baffles me ...
 
Mc. said:
Anybody who thinks WB is dumb enough to put hilder at 9 when clearly there are better options doesn't deserve to have an opinion on this.

CLEARLY Gidleys best position apart from 1 is 9..

CLEARLY Hilder is useless as an attacking hooker

CLEARLY we have two super talented youngsters aged 21 or younger who have shown glimpses brilliance at FG level. It would be a complete farce to deny either of them an opportunity to become great under Bennett in order to keep Hilder in a position that he is hopless in?? Not to mention that Gids makes a way better 9 than 7..

It baffles me ...
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Amen.
 
Its getting a little away from chatting bout signing Boyd, BUT i just read an article saying Henry is gone immediately (which im very disappointed about). This i think would indicate Gidley being the one that Bennet takes from fullback and grooms into a half.

Now i know Gids has and for the rest of the season will play a fair bit in the halves, but i think he will start to learn HOW to play in the halves when we have a coach that knows how to coach a half. I am saying this because i dont see Stone as having been able to get anything even remotely near the best out of any half we have had in the past few years.
 
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