Haterz be hatin...

So? Danny Brough plays for Scotland.

Change the subject now you've made yourself look stupid.

The journeyman is 28 with a World Cup winners medal and over a hundred Nrl games under his belt.

Mullally is 24, and can't get regular rugby at lowly Huddersfield. However he is a full international for the formidable Ireland.

I know who I'd rather have.

Taking away all the petty club arguing, on paper Rapira looks the solid bet on paper. He has been a good player for a fair while. I personally think he is a risky signing whoever picks him up. Risk reward situation seems to be easily broken. Could be a cracking signing could spend more time with physio than on pitch.

Mulally offers more of a project. Clearly a lot of coaches see something in him. The little I have seen seems big and aggressive what we lack. Who gets the best deal only time will tell lots of questions over both players

Clearly one thing Mullaley possesses that Rapira doesn't is a desire to win trophies

Christ you're obsessed with this place. I know we joke about your club having no fans but surely there must be a few of you that know how to use a computer, have internet access and can get the Hudds forum going?

As I said, i've bookmarked the thread. Good or bad i'll bring it back mid season, 2016.
My prediction is Hudds already out of the cup, Rapira injured or blatantly not interested, Mullally going OK from the bench and this board still full of insecure Huddersfield fans asking stupid questions like is Danny Brough better than Sinfield.

Signing Mullally and Rapira would have been ideal. We need another experienced prop as well as Cuthbertson to compliment Singleton, Mullally, Mulhern and Baldwinson, who have potential but are not yet the finished article.

On Balance I am glad Rapira has gone with Hudds. Its 7 years since he was a world cup winner and 4 since he featured in the NZ squad. I think on his day he is a quality player and on the one hand I would have liked to have seen him pull on a Leeds shirt next season. But and it is a big BUT, he does seem to have been dogged by injury of late. If he stays largely injury free for the next few season, he will have been a superb addition to your squad, if not?! I have seen too many expensive NRL Imports who came with big reputations and extensive injury / fitness issues spend an unproductive year at Leeds and the cut their stay short and return home. Which is why on balance I would rather take Mullally off your hands

, MAYBE not the same potential, but a lot less risk and I don't doubt less expensive

First off that is the most insulting thing anyone has called me... A Huddersfield fan!!!!

I personally agree with you I am quite happy Rapira has gone to hudds and not us. That said with 3 fairly young or inexperienced props another senior prop wouldn't go a miss for a few seasons

Now he's signed for the Giants why are we so obsessed with Sam Rapira on here?

Because nobody 'really' wanted him at leeds, phew!

Remember all those leeds threads stating how good mullally is and how much Leeds should go out of their way to sign him? No, neither do I.

Fair enough trying to save face, but surely in your heart of hearts you can't honestly say you prefer Mullally to Rapira.

Mullally is ok. I don't feel he's a massive loss to our club. He might kick on and become a world beater. If he does good on him, that's rugby. In reality he'll probably end up at Hunslet.

My Bad

I meant to quote the fart townforlife post that you were responding to in your post that I quoted in error. My unreserved apologies for any hurt to feeling or sensibility

Simply not true, many on here including myself were quite excited by the prospect of Leeds signing him, though there were notes of caution about the risk of signing him because of his run of injury, we've been there, done that and got the shirts with the names of single season flops who arrived in a blaze of glory.

As to no one raving at the prospect of signing Mullally before it was announced, that's probably because it came out of left field and no one predicted it

If we speculated on every possible player Leeds might sign, we'd get nothing else done

I'll let you off this time!!!

I'd have wanted Rapira if he came over to England with the right attitude to win medals and trophies......that he's signed for Huddersfield shows he isn't interested in being successful.

Ouch Printer went and dropped the Trophies and Medals bombs = Game Over thanks for coming Fartown!!
Fwiw i wanted Rapira and i hope it's a signing we don't regret missing out on but saying that we dodged a bullet with Ellis and his injury record wasn't as bad as SP's but time will tell.
As for Mullally well we've signed potential imo and the Giants are openly gutted he's gone but let's be honest the kid has ambition!
P.S. Lets not forget though Brough is the bestest HB ever ..........

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I agree Rhinoms i would have taken Rapira but there is a question mark clearly hanging over him fitness wise.I am quite sure if he stays fit then Huddersfield have a top class front rower giving them quality service for the next few years but thequestion mark is there for now.

I am satisfied with us getting Mullally TBH on the thinking another experienced quality front rower will be brought in to join him in due course.

Let's go back to the past re trophies and medals.

Maybe Rapira saw that this season is leeds last opportunity to win anything. Maybe he saw how poor you were for 3 games without Sinfield and realised it will only get worse when JP and Kylie leave.

Maybe laughed as much as everybody else when Rob Burrow got another 2 years.

I'm surprised leeds wanted him any way, he doesn't have many medals, therefore must be rubbish.

With regards to Mullally having ambition, that may be the case. Or the fact that he lives in headingley might have something to do with it.

You lot keep mentioning his potential and you might convince yourselves that he's a good signing!

Really? Really??

This rubbish from a fan of a club who every season are one serious injury away from being outside the top 8.

Your one man team is a joke.

Rapira probably choose Huddersfield over Leeds because the former offered a better contract than the latter. Leeds were rumoured to be offering him a one year deal whilst Huddersfield have offered him two years. Regarding Rob Burrow, he’s possibly on reduced terms and certainly won’t be earning the wages that he once did at the peak of his career. Two years is not a bad deal and whilst he's fit to play, he can change a game.

Leeds fans don’t need to worry much about the prop situation with Cuthbertson signed on for four years which will soften the blow of Peacock going. Mullally might not be in that mould but Leeds won grand finals with Kirke in the team so everything’s looking great from a fan prospective. Also Jordan Baldwinson will be back at Leeds next year since becoming a fans favourite at Featherstone Rovers playing prop.

Bookmark this comment because I can confidently predict Leeds will still do better than Huddersfield when Sinfield has gone. Yeah they might have a better goal kicker for a couple of years but that skill is hopeless if your team can only score three tries against their eight in a knock out game.

1 Go back to the past? OK remind us, in the super league era how many CC's, hub caps and SL grand finals have Hudds won?

2 Time will tell, but the transition looks to be going well from here.

3 I don't think there were many laughing and not as many as when Hudds gave Crabtree another go,

4 A lack of medals is no bar to consideration at HQ, hell its what attracts some of our best candidates. A questionable injury record however can put off the more risk averse

5 Your jilted lover view of Mullally, doesn't seem to be shared by the majority on your own board.

Time to let it go Fartown, if you're right and Rapira is the answer, we'll have missed out on a potential signing but there will be others. You could double, treble or even quadruple your trophy count, in a single season.

AND you will still be nowhere near the Leeds trophy count. So on balance I reckon I'll continue to back GH's judgement ref who we sign HTH

With Peacock and probably Leuluai both leaving you'd think a former international prop like Rapira would relish the chance to fill the void left by those two, not run away thinking the worst.

Sinfield of course is leaving too which is massive yes. But by the time the 2016 season kicks off Danny Brough will have turned 33 and will be 34 (the same age Sinfield is now) in the 2nd year of Rapira's contract. Huddersfield need to really start worrying that they can't just rely on the Danny Brough show for much longer themselves.

I really don't understand why Huddersfield persist in signing a new prop every season when it's clear that it's their lack of creativity and cutting edge that's their biggest weakness, players like Grix, Wood, Ellis and the current version of Luke Robinson are middle 8 SL players at best. If Brough were to be injured for a significant period of time I doubt they'd win a game.

That was my thought too. They seem very insistent on continuing further and further down the same track with their gameplan. They seem determined to simply rely on the speed of the ruck plus Brough to get them through games.

I think they're crying out for a bit of variation in their play. They've got a good centre in Cudjoe plus a good winger in McGillivray yet don't utilise them properly. Get them running onto the ball and they'll cause problems.

I reckon they need another good centre plus somebody in the pack who offers something other than just hard work. An offloading Ali/Cuthbertson type second row/prop would transform them in my opinion.

I'm not naive enough to think we'd not be knackered if Brough got injured.

I also recognise we need a new 7 and put Connor in at 1. I've posted about all that on our board several times.

Folk keep refering to Rapiras questionable injury record.

He has averaged 19 games a season over the past 9 years. That's two thirds in the toughest league in the world. That figure has been massively effected by his current hamstring injury. Prior to this he has generally been fit. So I'm not that concerned.

With regards to Mullally I have said he was an alright player who probably deserved more game time. If he had signed for cas or Hull KR nobody would really pass comment. But as I also said, I'm not that bothered about him leaving.