A good young stand off in oz not yet signed up....we need a new 6.....worth a punt?

cant say I've ever heard of him. has he played enough first grade to qualify for a visa?

According to Wikipedia (not the most reliable source, i know) he's 21 and his main rep football has come at school boy level

is rep football still a visa requirement? thought they went more on 1st grade NRL appearances, Id guess 23 he has would be enough. did dobson have any rep games before he came over? or did he get round it by going to catalans before applying for a uk visa?.

Looks like at start of 2010 season he had 16 tries in 25 first grade apps for South Sydney Rabbitohs. Thats not bad going!

i havent seen him play at all tbh! Any1 seen this lad play? hopefully i will see him play against para on friday though..... but he must have something about him to have been offered an extension by souths earlier in the season and to have played junior kangaroos......

You tell me, you sound like you're his agent

He's a centre

Never heard of him!

He's too young for you guys.

remind us again whos got the younger average squad age this year? leeds or bradford?

Meh.

They don't like it up 'em, Mr. Mat!

STFU you. I couldn't be bothered to work it out. Can someone tell me what the average age of both squads are including numbers 1-30. TIA

Get her!



Mat's perobably already done it. I recall doing it in another place a while ago, when the resident Rhino fekkwit on TotalRL was making one of his usual dumbass posts, but never kept the workings. I do remember making him look an even bigger prat than he normally does though when he attempted to take the pee out of our "retirement home" overseas signings, and I proved that the average age of Leeds' overseas signings was actually rather more than that of ours!

Doesn't suprise me - I just hope i'm not sat next to any more ts tomorrow, the lot i'm off with have well and truly jumped on the bandwagon

Exactly the same thought crossed my mind reading the first post!

Great talent, young, fast, good hands, exactly what we should be looking for... played really well today against the Eels.

did it at beginning of season so I knew facts were correct. just found txt file with data in and updated to replace hyde with southernwood. figures are as folows:-

ages at start of 2010 season.

dave halley 23
stuart reardon 28
chris nero 29
paul sykes 28
rikki sheriffe 25
brett kearney 26
matt orford 32
nick scruton 25
wayne godwin 27
andy lynch 30
glenn hall 28
steve menzies 36
jamie langley 26

craig kopczak 23
heath l'estrange 24
danny sculthorpe 30
james donaldson 19

michael platt 25
michael worrincy 24
elliot whitehead 20
jason crookes 19
tom olbison 18
cain southernwood 18
steve crossley 20
tom burgess 17
george burgess 17
andy tate 18
duane straugheir 20

total age = 645
average age = 23

no doubt someone will pipe up that the burgii,tate and straugheir are all pulling our figure down when they werent really in 1st team contention. if you only calculate the figure based on the players who've actually featured this year for 1st team ( so remove those 4 and sculthorpe) then it only rises to 23.6 and thats totally ignoring finigan ( including him and it goes down to 23.4). must have been a long off season last year for me to bother typing these out and saving them.
From memory leeds average squad age was about 2 years older.