I've just seen that we've signed Peteru Nathaniel from the Gold Coast titans on a 3 year deal. Apparently he's a 6 foot 5 ball handling prop. Does anyone know much about him?

How come we didn't get a heads up on this signing by the ITK crowd?

Think you can count out Walmsley joining then I guess.

On the plus side he's a big guy who runs hard and has a bit of an offload game. On the downside he's relatively inexperienced for his age (Not a deal breaker, both Garbutt and Sene-Lefao were similar) and he doesn't do big minutes, defence like most men his size can be a bit boom or bust.

It's nice to see us go back to Signing Kiwis as well.

I'm not entirely sure, but would this put us over the quota and as such we can expect one of our other overseas players to leave, maybe Delaney or Galloway?

Delaney and Galloway both British citizens I think

As good as the last signing from the Gold Coast ? Beau Falloon

Still classed as non fed trained though.

Takes us up to 7, which is the quota for non fed. Moon, Galloway, Parcell, Cuthbertson, Delaney, Garbutt, Peteru.

I see. Hopefully see the back of Delaney + Galloway. It seems we've replaced Galloway already. Just need to replace Delaney.

And others obvs

He'll be a real impact sub I think next year and will provide good yards and be able to give the likes of cuthbertson and singleton a rest when they need it.

Maybe he's the replacement for Garbutt after his and McDermott's continuous falling outs?

Someone has to go there has to be a limit to how many props you can have and keep the squad balanced - maybe constructive dismissal for Garbutt. I make that 8 in a squad of 24 i.e. A third

You mean like Monday the 14th August, when one poster said we had signed a prop, only to have you have a go back because name of the player not known? Although I will be fair, the name of player still wasn't known.

A good signing given the current market constraints from NRL to Super League.

Still relatively young, always seems to have plenty of impact on the defensive line - he's one of those players who steams it in at full pace - something we've beeen lacking.

A good solid signing in an area where we needed to improve, adds a bit of something we don't currently have.

More of the same please!

I'd agree with that summary. More of the same please.

I wouldn't worry, even after he's been named he'll still be unknown to 99% of the UK audience.

This.

Hopefully a cuthbo style signing, not another Achurch, big useless bottleless dolop

completely disrespectful to both those players specially Delaney who has been a cracking servant to the club. Yes he is busted but to quote "hopefully see the back of him" is out of order. Also Galloway as been decent but very unlucky with injuries.

No I actually had a go about the other part you mentioned something about a meeting.

Is that what it's been reduced to now, we've signed somebody but don't know who. I'd have thought in the several weeks that have passed one of the guys on here would have gotten a name, age, place of birth, inside leg measurement, favourite food, like they do for players who don't end up signing here. Standards are slipping.

As said earlier we had Achurch for four seasons and he was paid so well couldn't get shot of him . When we make a signing like this I always think Achurch ,hopefully this works out. Oh and we get a decent thread going with this news and someone ' Dog whistles' and the arguments and feuds spill over and resume again

This probably means a permanent move to loose forward for Cuthbertson or Singleton then?

Cuthbertson
Garbutt
Galloway
Singleton
Mullally
Peteru
Oledzki

Given that Galloway and Cuthbertson probably have 2 seasons left in them at the most, we seem to be planning ahead well.

Poor man's Andy Lynch.

Happy with this,Love this kind of signing,much the same as garbutt and parcell in the sense that he's off the radar slightly but just coming into his best years. He's a player that when watching gold coast on premier sports,without paying close attention to him,he always impressed me,a bit like how tyrone roberts used to always impress me in his newcastle days despite not being a big name.

Iv watched quite a few full games of goldcoast this morning to pay closer attention to him and also got some stats together from his first grade career to date,so for anyone interested this is my take on him from what iv seen:

He's a huge fella but he's certainly no plodder,he's athletic and agile for a man of his size. He hits the ball up hard and with pretty good pace,he's not your JP kind of workhorse who would take every hitup if you let him but he's also not your ian kirke/mitch achurch style of 3 hitups in half an hour kind either,he looks to have more fire in his little finger than them 2 combined,he puts his hand up and does his fair share,he's came off the bench in all but one game doing anywhere between 20 and 40 mins,fortunatly he looks better both stats wise and to the eye when he does longer minutes,he looks like he could do 50 mins at super league level comfortably. Defensively,he's not a very big hitter and not someone you'd want to avoid if you were taking a ball in,but he make his tackles and dosnt concede many penalties,he isnt a liability in any way,id say he's as solid defensively as you'd expect a prop to be without being spectacular.This is backed up by his stats:

In 22 first grade games he's averaged 9 meters a hit up..(mitch garbutt leads all props in super league this season with 8.3 meters a hit up)..He's only missed 17 tackles and only made 5 errors,he hasnt played as many minutes as a lot of props but theyr still really solid numbers for a prop his size as usually a giant props biggest deficiencys are errors(penalties) and being targeted in defence.

Im really excited by the signing,think gh could of found us another gem.

Calm down dear. Delaney is a legend no doubt.

Galloway has done absolutely nothing in a Rhinos shirt + I'm sure he's on a decent wedge. Two bad injuries recently too. Both Achilles snapped if I remember correctly? Time to get rid and bring someone new in.

This basically.

Never heard of him...Could be good could be bad, as is the nature of a signing like this one. Sadly the days of bringing over top class NRL players even at the fag end of their careers are dying by the the year. the likes of Cam Smith, Gallen, Cronk, Parker etc.. would rather see out there time in NRL and retire there than come over for a couple of years now as was the way back in the day. There are still some gems to had mind, lets hope this is one.