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Excellent signing; one of my favourite NRL players (despite playing for Manly). Primarily a winger but has been filling in at full back to great effect, he is a real 100% footballer. Played with distinction for Scotland in the last World Cup, for me he is just the type of Aussie we should be signing.

Sea Eagles Football Manager Steve Gigg said Robertson was a key member of the Sea Eagles senior playing group.

“He has shown outstanding leadership qualities and is an integral link between the players and football management. The Harlequins are getting a quality person as well as a quality player,”

Does he count on Quota?

Either way looks like a very good signing - not a player I know a whole lot about but it will be good to have some geniune class on the wing and someone who can bag a few tries.

Funny how no-one seemed to pick up on this one, usually our signings are telegraphed a couple of weeks in advance when the rumour mill kicks in...

Today is a good day - welcome Mr Robertson

Sounds like a very good signing, and seemingly its come out of the blue! Good news!

Media seem to be impressed with him, Welcome!

Ver good signing,very underrated player,very safe pair of hands,can score a try,and doesnt get too many injuries.Has played for Scotland so should be off quota maybe?

"We're just a team full of Aussies, team full of Aussies"

A very good player. Excellent news. Manly are providing us with some decent players, nice if 'Wolfman', Kite and Foran joined too.

Excellent signing, just the sort of player we need. Great pedigree - Raiders and Sea Eagles. Looks like David Hughes is digging deep this time round.

Hope he manages more than one season though

Good signing for you guys, good solid player. Will go well over here.

Slowly but surely we are morphing into the London Sea Eagles..............love it, great signing and only 28. Seems very resilient with a very good appearence record, lets hope that continues when he gets to blighty. I suspect TR has been a big help to the London management team in securing our new crop of Ozzie signings, so well done all concerned. Looking forward to next season already

Must admit, as I don't have access to the NRL I don't know much about quite a few of their players. But reading the thread on the Manly fans forum.....we have swooped on an absolute gem. They seems gutted that he's gone. forums.silvertails.net/Thread-Mi ... quins-2012 Welcome to London Michael...bring that form from the NRL with you!!

Must admit, as I don't have access to the NRL I don't know much about quite a few of their players. But reading the thread on the Manly fans forum.....we have swooped on an absolute gem. They seems gutted that he's gone. forums.silvertails.net/Thread-Mi ... quins-2012 Welcome to London Michael...bring that form from the NRL with you!!

Pace to burn and equally at home playing fb.

How good is your overseas recruitment for next season!!

Good signing. With the vast improvement of Jamie O'Callaghan we might well have our best wing pairing since.....blimey!....can't remember when we last had two genuinely exciting wingers.

Scottish international flyer who seemed to get on very well with the guys from the North of England when he played for Scotland so that bodes well for him as a character and it also continues our snapping up of former Manly players which is nice. Hat trick in an NRL final and country origin last year as well as someone who consistently plays alot of games so he is not prone to injuries, infact he played 139 games in a row for Manly nor is he someone who has to take the only offer he could get.

When was the last time we actually signed an exciting winger from the NRL, I honestly can't think of one.

The Napoli / Smythe combination was electric

Quote ="Hear Ye!"Must admit, as I don't have access to the NRL I don't know much about quite a few of their players. But reading the thread on the Manly fans forum.....we have swooped on an absolute gem. They seems gutted that he's gone. forums.silvertails.net/Thread-Mi ... quins-2012 Welcome to London Michael...bring that form from the NRL with you!! '" Looked at that forum breifly and i noticed they all seem to be calling us London Harlequins...

Quote ="Hear Ye!"Must admit, as I don't have access to the NRL I don't know much about quite a few of their players. But reading the thread on the Manly fans forum.....we have swooped on an absolute gem. They seems gutted that he's gone. forums.silvertails.net/Thread-Mi ... quins-2012 Welcome to London Michael...bring that form from the NRL with you!! '" Looked at that forum breifly and i noticed they all seem to be calling us London Harlequins...

The Aussie media have a habit of calling us London Harlequins. In the NRL match programme "Big League" we have always been referred to as London Harlequins in their Super League results/table section. When we had the WCC warm up games with Manly and Melbourne, both sides called us that on their websites.

Back to Robertson - fantastic signing. Very excited about next season!

Its to give a reference to where the club is located in the UK for my fellow Aussies...

But seriously, can we back off the sea eagle signings? Cant stand any team that wears maroon!

In other news, I will get to my first game since June against the Bulls... great value this years season ticket!

WOW what a signing. For those who don't know a great deal about him, IMO this is the best overseas signing any side has made this year. Fast and an absolute superb finisher. Quins are building a frightingly good squad and one that will be serious title contenders next year. Superb signings.

I expect you guys to make top 8 next season for sure!!

Your making some real smart signings.

can't see it yet!

We need a good coach to bring it all together, and no news on that yet.

Strange that they feel the need to do that, seeing that we're given to understand that Harlequins is an instantly recognisable global brand.

Very Good signing getting a good squad for next season. Welcome Micheal