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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by the machine » 27 Aug 2018, 16:13

CasRus wrote:Looks like someone has let a player of high calibre potential slip through our fingers here !!

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing when you consider Jamie Ellis being brought in and letting Tom go !

Holmes and Trueman could have been the present day Hardisty and Hepworth combination that worked so well in days gone by !
He wanted more game time and we couldn't guarantee it
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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by HuddsTigers » 27 Aug 2018, 19:33

the machine wrote:
CasRus wrote:Looks like someone has let a player of high calibre potential slip through our fingers here !!

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing when you consider Jamie Ellis being brought in and letting Tom go !

Holmes and Trueman could have been the present day Hardisty and Hepworth combination that worked so well in days gone by !
He wanted more game time and we couldn't guarantee it
Don’t know how many times we have to say that.

Holmes was behind Gale and Ellis and had competition from Trueman. Ellis was brought in due to Roberts moving to full back. Holmes wasn’t guaranteed time so left for that and possibly a bit more cash. Him leaving allowed Trueman to step up. Now that looks like it has been to our benefit too as Trueman looks like our starting half.
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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by CasRus » 27 Aug 2018, 19:49

HuddsTigers wrote:
the machine wrote:
CasRus wrote:Looks like someone has let a player of high calibre potential slip through our fingers here !!

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing when you consider Jamie Ellis being brought in and letting Tom go !

Holmes and Trueman could have been the present day Hardisty and Hepworth combination that worked so well in days gone by !
He wanted more game time and we couldn't guarantee it
Don’t know how many times we have to say that.

Holmes was behind Gale and Ellis and had competition from Trueman. Ellis was brought in due to Roberts moving to full back. Holmes wasn’t guaranteed time so left for that and possibly a bit more cash. Him leaving allowed Trueman to step up. Now that looks like it has been to our benefit too as Trueman looks like our starting half.

Short Sightedness is what I call it ! Why did they bring Ellis in when Tom needed the game time and had to go get it a Fev !! He'd be flying now for Cas alongside Trueman instead of flying for the Giants ! Ellis, although being a capable player wasn't needed !

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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by HuddsTigers » 27 Aug 2018, 20:25

Ellis would have come in regardless of Holmes going or staying because we like to have 3 halves:

Sneyd, Finn, Ellis, Dorn - 2014
Gale, Roberts, Finn, Holmes -2015
Gale, Roberts, Hampshire, Holmes - 2016
Gale, Roberts, Chase, Holmes - 2017
Gale, Ellis, Trueman, Aston - 2018

Holmes would have been ahead of Trueman with Trueman as our young gun. He left for first team and arguably for his own development.
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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by Tamworth Tiger » 28 Aug 2018, 03:13

HuddsTigers wrote:Ellis would have come in regardless of Holmes going or staying because we like to have 3 halves:

Sneyd, Finn, Ellis, Dorn - 2014
Gale, Roberts, Finn, Holmes -2015
Gale, Roberts, Hampshire, Holmes - 2016
Gale, Roberts, Chase, Holmes - 2017
Gale, Ellis, Trueman, Aston - 2018

Holmes would have been ahead of Trueman with Trueman as our young gun. He left for first team and arguably for his own development.
We also had Seymour in 2014. I think the original plan was for him and Ellis to start with Sneyd and Finn the back ups. Seems incredible now.

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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by HuddsTigers » 28 Aug 2018, 08:05

I didn’t count him seeing as he was a punt and if I remember rightly we let him go in pre-season. He ended up somewhere like Whitehaven too.
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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by TT Tiger » 28 Aug 2018, 08:18

HuddsTigers wrote:Ellis would have come in regardless of Holmes going or staying because we like to have 3 halves:

Sneyd, Finn, Ellis, Dorn - 2014
Gale, Roberts, Finn, Holmes -2015
Gale, Roberts, Hampshire, Holmes - 2016
Gale, Roberts, Chase, Holmes - 2017
Gale, Ellis, Trueman, Aston - 2018

Holmes would have been ahead of Trueman with Trueman as our young gun. He left for first team and arguably for his own development.
Roberts 2018? I know he was down as full back but surely so was Dorn in 2014?

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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by HuddsTigers » 28 Aug 2018, 08:23

Jordan Tansey was #1 in 2014 but switched half way through I think.

At the start of the season Roberts was #1 hence his omission.
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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by tigerfeat » 28 Aug 2018, 09:45

Wonder what happened to Seymour he was quite a interesting chap used to come in Bill hill when hed finished training always had a good tale or two to tell...
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Re: Tom Holmes

Post by HuddsTigers » 28 Aug 2018, 13:31

tigerfeat wrote:Wonder what happened to Seymour he was quite a interesting chap used to come in Bill hill when hed finished training always had a good tale or two to tell...
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