Just been hearing Marty Kapow loose forward for wests tigers is due to sign for next season

Taupau I presume you mean?

Would be awesome, but he's highly rated in Oz and NZ. About as big and strong as they come. Witness...

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Yeah his twitter is @ Martykapow

Absolute unit looks mean in attack an defence

Yes please, he would do nicely, wonder if he'd be a normal signing or a Marquee one.

Maybe get him sponsored by the Salford Star

Pfft, he's not even lifting it over his head, the big fanny. I've carried heavier bags home from Tescos.

I would take him marque or not him Hansen an Patterson with hauraki on the bench coming on

I'd be amazed if we signed Taupau. A top player.

Is it a realistic signing? Don't push too far.

Does anyone else think we’re linked with a right old codger? I mean, it’s been years since that single topped the charts.

I'm sure he'd put his heart and soul into it, but at that age he's bound to be made of China though it's all in his hands.

Sorry.

You've read far too many comics.



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Taupau! As a Wests Tigers fan (as well as a Rhino) this guy is amazing! Awesome! Unreal! Can't see in a million years him leaving the NRL. Good luck in getting him. As a Leeds fan he would go a long way to fill the void left by Peacock. He is that good.

I've heard he's very injury prone.

His bones are like china in your hand.

It’s the Tim Sheens affect.

Sheens can't be coming, the Doc's down to his last 50p

If the Dr is as rich as we are lead to believe, Then with the marque rule now in, he could sign anyone, if they are willing to accept a huge contract and play for us.

He should be thankful at least he has a pair of shoes these days.

We do all realise that just because the Dr has a reported £Xm figure against his wealth, it means absolutely F.All when it comes to SRD trading?????
SRD needs to be living within it's means, and the club is not....also, has the DR physically put millions into the club?
If so, where?

On a positive note though, if we have successfully recruited '50s, 60s Thwack character, then yay

If the club was living within it's means I'd guess the club would only be spending about half the salary cap. For years we've had a Superleague team with a Championship fanbase.

What are the choices? Take a huge gamble on a more expensive squad in the hope numbers will eventually increase with better results or live within your means and hope to maintain the status quo? A combination of extra speculative spending and the added costs of playing at the new stadium is where things went wrong previously. It's not easy when the small success starved fanbase we have grows more disillusioned year on year. I think it's a great pity we had so many injuries and suspensions after the Wigan game because we were just starting to gain some momentum.

You've got to speculate to accumulate, better, if has the money, to buy world class players and winning every, or most games . That would bring the crowds in

Scoot & Theredshed, you're both obviously missing my point...

Folks are saying that there is no way that SRD can be in a financial mess just because the Doc is reputed to be worth $900m+
The Docs worth and the finances at the club are 2 different things. The clubs finances are a mess, however, we do have the benefit of the Doc being able to plug a few gaps.
As for speculating to accumulate, I'm all for it but we have to remember that the club cannot afford it with our current position etc and that's just a fact, but saying that, we do need to be overspending correctly in recruitment to get the winning formula and it's not going to be easy.

Anyway, back to the thread, I'll be over the moon if MT is joining us

Read into this what you will, but this morning Salford starting following Taupau on Twitter.

Kapow was right - This morning on Premier TV he took on Souths pack on his own - he looked like Harrison, Hauraki & Cory rolled into one. Brilliant

Stop it.

@martykapow ????