Take away the 'he just needs straightening out' & 'he's worth the risk' sentiments, & look at his stats this season.

His stats this season so far are........

- Ranked 2nd in try assists.
- Ranked 7th for halfbacks in line breaks with 7.
- Ranked 5th for halfbacks for offloads with 8.
- 41 tackles missed, more than any other #7 in the NRL.
- Tackle efficiency of 78.1%, the 4th lowest of all halfbacks in the NRL.

Since 2013 the Eels have a 38% win ratio on games he's played in.

god help us if we ever sign a half back because he has fantastic, solid defence ...as a main attribute

To me he is as good as Brough in attack but ,without the shoulder charge he can't tackle ,seems to go for ineffective ankle taps ,hopefully we can cover for this

Mike Parsons It's my view in the WA Guardian is getting all excited.

Almost word for word, quoted from Paul Cullen, how did situ end up for him?

Since I've supported Warrington ,we've always been about scoring tries ,off the cuff ,entertaining rugby ,to me Sandow will fit Wire perfectly ,Gidley appears a solid ,controlling sort of player

A great foil for the other

Some say he can't tackle but I've heard that said about so many players, if he signs I'm sure he will be fine it's his creativity we want.

In the live games I watched recently, Sandow hardly touches the ball until a kick is required on the last.
The YouTube specials on Sandow's best shows him outstanding.

I'm hoping the apparent laziness in recent games are down to the coaching tactics that Sandow has publicly spoken out about! Or that he no longer gives a sugar because he's coming here.

NRL is very structured and from the reports I've read he wants to play his own game. That's exactly what smith wants from his players. I've said before I don't see enough NRL games to make comment, but he seems a 'Wire' type player? I and most of us I think remember the quote from smith saying he doesn't coach the attack, he likes his teams to play what's in front of them. Most rugby players want to play rugby. I can't think of a better club for him in that regard if I'm honest?

So if he's going to make a go of it, after a couple of instances of leaving clubs under a bit of a cloud, then this is the place for him.

On Super League Backchat last night Schofield definitely doesn't rate Sandow saying he was just a "Fruit Cake "

Takes one to know one I suppose....

That'll do for me then. He'll be a cracker, or a cake.

the Eels probably only won 38% of games with Hayne at FB but that would not put me off signing him. the Eels have been leading with 20mins to go in about half a dozen games this year and gone on to loose them. That is a defence problem.
People forget that the Axe only had the cumberland throw or an interception in his defensive armoury before the Tony Smith era.
Sandow is involved in almost every point the Eels score and he can unlock defences. It would be nice if Radrada was coming with him if not Then Joel should play left wing next year because he would be at the top of the try charts.

Sandow and Semi make quite a team ,if I was a winger I'd love to play with Sandow ,just a matter of developing an understanding and the tries would flow

He'd get home sick in the spare bedroom

This homesick business seems to go back to 2008 ,when with Titans ,his partner had just given birth with ,I think, first child and he naturally wanted to be there as much as possible ,as it was he was 300miles away and missed some training sessions ,not sure of his current relationship status but, hopefully family will come over with him

Wanted at Wire as soon as possible, if this is believed

[urlhttp://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/parramatta-eels/parramatta-eels-halfback-chris-sandow-linked-with-move-to-super-league-20150712-giajf8.html[/url


and a good piece on why we should be happy if he does.....
[urlhttp://mobile.news.com.au/sport/nrl/buzz-rothfield-why-parramatta-eels-should-be-re-signing-halfback-chris-sandow/story-fndv34of-1227439162432[/url

He could certainly help us out this season ,could be the spark we need

that second article is a good read....the more I read about him the more excited I get about having him on-board.

If we did manage to bring him in this year, how does that work on the salary cap?

For example if we bring him over for the 8's he would play for approx a quarter of the season. If we signed him on £240k would only a quarter of his salary count on the cap? So £60k, or would his full salary count?

£175,000 I would think.

Regardless of what his wage is, it would be his full cap value that would count? Rather than just the proportion of the season he played? I can't see how we could fit him under in that case?

If he is the marquee, then only 175 will count on the cap as proposed by SJM. 100 of Sam T at Pies.