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Brilliant player and excellent news for England.

Coming to Wigan with Maguire I believe [size=25(well I hope)[/size

He is signed to the Storm for a few years yet.
He has played well at the level he is at nothing more or less.
People are saying he is the next Slater, Load of Bollocks.
Remember Shannon Walker? Oz Schoolboy scored tries all over the place, signed by the Titans never to be seen again.



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Hype at this stage, saying all the right things about playing for England as he would be behind around 4-5 Fullbacks for the next 5 years in the NRL if he was far better than anyone hoped for.
Slater
Hayne
Stewart
The list goes on

but he's feeling more and more australian all the time, which should probably be translated to "if the kangaroos ever wanted me i wouldn't give a second thought to ditching england"

If he had any sense, England, currently,would be the last team he would want to play for

Can he get here by the weekend?

Nice little dig at the International Scene...

He's probably spot on there though.


Ive said before, Englands best bet for instant success is to get as many Aussies playing for them as possible.

But this one is clearly not Australian. If you mean getting as many English players into the NRL we seem to be doing okay at that.

Well whats the total......3....4......with only two certain to be getting a start.

Gareth? Got to be some Welsh in him somewhere............

I'll tell you how he goes as Melbourne are playing their reserve grade in the NSW Cup next season.

He's well liked by a fair number of the Storm fans, and a lot want to find someway to give him some first grade run outs next season but it's difficult with Slater being the incumbent fullback - I guess his best opportunity is around Origin time.

He's been over here for last few weeks

Much as I hate to admit it, if England could find a bunch of NRL-regulars qualified to play for them, I'd take them in an instant, dodgy grandparents and all.

Widdop's last comment is probably the saddest reflection on the state of SL.

Sad but true - that was no better than most of NL1 games that were on SKY this season

It was possibly the worst game ive ever seen but it was still a billion times higher than NL1.
NL1 teams cant even compete with the lowqest of SL teams, never mind the best from the top

So Cas only beating Fax by an Extra Time Golden Point in the cup this year never happened?

I think his best chance of breaking through tob the first grade is to mould himself into the Lance Hohaia mould, could play both 1 and 6 well.

Yep, please take note Tony Smith

Gareth who??

Who the hell is this bloke????!!!

You're right BUT hardly worth the laughy smiley is it?, seeing as though the cool £million that Super League clubs get could make that bit of difference to the quality of the squads

I wouldn't expect you to know - seeing as though you didn't know who Matt King played for. You need to brush up on your League news instead of shagging that heifer in Barnes

Richey

Who are/were the Halifax Blue socks?

Is that 'Halifax'????

Never heard of them mate. I've heard of the ill fated attempt to call my club Halifax Blue Sox. Is that what you mean? Go for it - i can happily take that disasterous one on the chin because it was a laughable "marketing" ploy.

I'll come clean here......

Apart from the SL clubs (who I have only heard of through posting on here) I could probably only name a few other British clubs.

I'll have a go.

Halifax

Barrow

Wigan St Patrick

Hull Dockers

Gateshead Thunder


Thats seriously about it.


I don't follow the British game


I thought Matt King had retired because of his injured shoulder