Confirmed to Sheffield Eagles. Decent signing for them, but hopefully weve already replaced him with the big aussie prop

Dont think we saw his best on Fax, not getting on with the coach probably didnt help in that respect, but I think we have replaced him with better and more importantly players who can do a lot of time on the pitch.

I do agree about his performance but as you say Karl didn't use him properly.
He is an impact player who should be brought on and taken off at the right time.
A current player suggested to me that 15 mins periods were his limit and that Karl used to leave him on too long.
Can a player who can only play a max of 30 mins a game attract the salary I believe he was on?
Only my opinion by the way.

Just about every team has four props who each play half a game. It's just how the game's developed.

A good signing for the eagles. Mark Aston's a good coach and will get more out of Tonka than Karl Harrison did.
He looked a better player in his last few games when coming from the bench. The games too fast for someone like Tonks to be in the starting line up, and was found out on a quite a few occasions in defense. Much better to have him as an impact forward

Exactly as I said.
It seems however in South Yorkshire that 30 mins is half a game.

No such place. Part of the West Riding.

Correct

As an aside, where are you playing next season?

We'll be playing a game at the Shay, I believe.

Going off thread for a minute, Chop my fingers of Guardianistas if you want, Gregg, did your beloved Bramall Lane ever stage an international game?
No looking it up!

Yes, Yorkshire v Australia, 1911.

Well, I count it as an international, anyway.



Or do you mean soccer. Or cricket.

Five international football games before 1930 and one Test Match v Australia 1902, I wasn't at that one but was at the last ever County Cricket game 4th, 6th 7th August 1973 draw v Lancashire.

I think you'll find that *soccer* is only played in the US of A.

I've argued this one with so many people. It's just not true!

When I was a kid it was always referred to as "soccer".

i call it soccer as does my grandad

Soccer for me as I have friends who consider Football to be Gaelic Football, American Football or/and Australian Football as "Football". Anyway going back to Tony. Good signing for Sheffield and think he will Show what we could have had under Aston who seems to get the best out of Players. Top bloke who tried his best but it just wasnt working under Harrison and for me was used wrongly and should have been coming off the bench not starting.

As I have said before, another member of the fax squad told me that Tony felt he was only good for 15 mins each half and was very disgruntled about the way Karl was using him.
Having said that do we want a top earner who can play for only 30 mins?
Yes I know Griff, lots of teams use their props sparingly but I bet they are not on top income.
Anyway, good look Tony.

To be fair if that's all he could manage then it really isn't good enough for a team wanting to be remotely near the top of our division.

I agree with you, pal. "Soccer" is a word made up by the Victorian ex-public schoolboys, as is "rugger". "Soccer" is an abbreviation of "Association" and "rugger" is an abbreviation of "Rugby". It's not rocket science.



Meanwhile "football" was originally played with the hands. The word is first recorded in the time of James IV. It's called "football" because it was played on foot, not because it was played with the feet.

RU have already hijacked the word "Rugby". Now we have soccer trying to hijack "soccer".