[Official] Jimmy Gopperth signs

[cormac]

my logic in loaning mcgrath out (if we dont release a senior 9 prob Boss next summer) is he gets gametime/improves but is still our player (if he is still 4th choice)

if hes 4th choice, out of contract, other clubs come calling he might decide to leave altogether when he graduates academy

let us also remember he has played 1 solitary senior game too

He's made four appearances for Leinster.

[simonokeeffe]

my logic in loaning mcgrath out (if we dont release a senior 9 prob Boss next summer) is he gets gametime/improves but is still our player (if he is still 4th choice)

if hes 4th choice, out of contract, other clubs come calling he might decide to leave altogether when he graduates academy

let us also remember he has played 1 solitary senior game too

He's made four appearances for Leinster.

its one start though or has he made more? (tried to check before orig post on leinster site but no appearances given for him)

[cormac]

One start, three sub appearances

[simonokeeffe]

I claim a moral victory

[Ruckedtobits]

Lamb of BOD wrote:

.... I can't get rid of this nagging feeling that we're short at least one winger .

Wouldn't diagree with that sentiment and would love to see Macken given 3/4 games early next year in that position. He has steamy pace and swerves both directions (had to phrase that delicately) and defending on wing is reputedly easier than the centre

[simonokeeffe]

Lamb of BOD wrote:

.... I can't get rid of this nagging feeling that we're short at least one winger .

Wouldn't diagree with that sentiment and would love to see Macken given 3/4 games early next year in that position. He has steamy pace and swerves both directions (had to phrase that delicately) and defending on wing is reputedly easier than the centre

EOM I've always felt could be a winger, has the pace and the footwork and probably decent kicking skills as schools outhalf, just not big enough for centre IMO

[Lamb of BOD]

Wouldn't diagree with that sentiment and would love to see Macken given 3/4 games early next year in that position. He has steamy pace and swerves both directions (had to phrase that delicately) and defending on wing is reputedly easier than the centre

EOM I've always felt could be a winger, has the pace and the footwork and probably decent kicking skills as schools outhalf, just not big enough for centre IMO

agree with both of those statements, although if either of those players moved out wider it would leave us short a centre, imo. The main point as it appears to me is that, over the course of the league and Heineken campaigns, you need to have two players per position plus a (an academy) guy hovvering around the fringes - someone who can come in and do a job temporarily but who isn't sufficiently far along in his development to merit consideration on a regular basis. Unless I;m forgetting someone, we've Luke, McF and Dave K on the wings with Daren Hudson as the back up. Leaves us a winger short. It could be, of course, that Hudson is going to move up next season with Coghlan-Murray as back up. In which case we should be covered

[AdamK]

Lamb of BOD wrote:

.... I can't get rid of this nagging feeling that we're short at least one winger .

Wouldn't diagree with that sentiment and would love to see Macken given 3/4 games early next year in that position. He has steamy pace and swerves both directions (had to phrase that delicately) and defending on wing is reputedly easier than the centre

EOM I've always felt could be a winger, has the pace and the footwork and probably decent kicking skills as schools outhalf, just not big enough for centre IMO

Thankfully Leinster centres tend to be small.

[simonokeeffe]

aye but darce and BOD hard as nails and incredibly strong ie capable of stopping big players on gainline

[AdamK]

aye but darce and BOD hard as nails and incredibly strong ie capable of stopping big players on gainline

EOM is actually a very, very stout defender. Probably the best aspect of his game. Besides BOD/Darce only got hard as nails by playing week in week out. If EOM wasn't so plagued with injury he'd be halfway there.

[simonokeeffe]

aye but darce and BOD hard as nails and incredibly strong ie capable of stopping big players on gainline

EOM is actually a very, very stout defender. Probably the best aspect of his game. Besides BOD/Darce only got hard as nails by playing week in week out. If EOM wasn't so plagued with injury he'd be halfway there.

O'Malley is never going to be able to stop many guys from making offloads too

[CiaranIrl]

Poor old Jimmy will come on here some day thinking there is a long thread about him, but really its about everyone else.

[Avenger]

Not loving his performance today.

[simonokeeffe]

Poor old Jimmy will come on here some day thinking there is a long thread about him, but really its about everyone else.

well at least the thread didnt end up about Hitler

[naraic]

Gopperth played today in the second leg semi final of the championship playoffs to guarantee Newcastle a final appearance with a 34-30 aggregate win over leeds.

[brotheroffrank]

This thread now over 10 Years old....and look who Leicester name at 23 for tomorrow... extraordinary longevity...

[johng]

How many 40 year old Pro's at OH have there been since Hugo Porta? I know he won't be 40 for a couple of months (and also plays centre) but.....