Just watching the Stains game

is it my eyes or does Mr Solamona need a season ticket for Slimmers world lol



How Fat is he ???

according to the wire fans at work he's slimmed down in the off season

(couldnt find one eating a pie)

Salford fans were saying the same about Feka

Theres no way he has lost weight

He hasnt half eaten some pies that lad.

With chips

I was saying last year he's fat, he's definately carrying a few extra stones around!
And warrington fans were saying last year Feka was fat haha!

Couldn't believe my eyes watching him - easily the fattest RL player I have ever seen play.

No doubt he will be eating a kebab whilst watching Wigan RLFC in the World Challenge on sunday night!

Hope he enjoys both!

Solomona is fat????....

......No $h!t Sherlock....



On a serious note, he might not be the greatest athlete, but skill-wise he doesn't have many betters in Super League, when it comes to ball playing forwards.

I agree.

He is one lard ar$e but very effective at what he does.

Awesome hands.

Clearly to many vindaloos and stella.

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Difference is Solomona can play! He aint athletic one bit but his skills are awesome!

Good luck sunday! stick it on the Aussies!

IMO it doesn't look good for the competition when you have three players Solomona/Feka and Widders who are so overweight...

How much must they eat and drink when they are exercising so much each day?

I don't think Solo drinks at all. You have to admit he has great hands.

He has, and I've just been discussing it with a saints supporting friend of mini rogue.
He's like Puletua and Lautiti, great with ball in hand, but very poor defensively. What you ned to do when you play against them is to to make them work, and hard.

Easier said than done I know, but none of them have "big engines"

Solomona did slim down 12 months back but he's put it back on in spades over this pre season. He looks very top heavy and isn't in good enough shape to play for a top 4 side imo at the minute. He isn't on his own at Wire in looking a little unfit going off our pre season with them. I thought they had 4 or 5 players that looked like they'd had a 'good' christmas and needed an extra few weeks pre season but going off tonight they've worked them hard.

Wire have the talent to really push Wigan close but i'd back out fitness and work ethic everytime.

I totally agree that he has great hands, but like Feka, these are "luxury" type players who in modern day rugby league are not really players which title contenders should be accomodating. IMO the modern game is so much more about percentages plays and defence that having a player that can create a bit of magic but who is a liability in defence is not something the top coaches IMO can afford to have. MM has created a title winning culture at Wigan that is about constant improvement, how is a guy who has put on 2 stone in the off season demonstrating that he buys into such a culture which is now the minimum requirement for a title winning team?

I'd have him nowhere near our team, he's well out of shape and his impact is minimal these days.

He isn't the same player that he was in his Wakey days is he. I remember a game at Belle Vue where he murdered us and at the time I thought he was probably the most gifted player in superleague. To be fair he probably is still one of if not the most naturally gifted player in the league but his general attitude to fitness isn't good enough and he doesn't push himself hard enough.

If only the guy had an attitude for the sport like Sam Tomkins has he'd be an alltime great but he hasn't.

Not what he's there to do, he's there for good yard, which he makes and that bit of flair. Like one of the other wigan posters says, he's a luxury and his weaknesses are cover by other peoples strengths

No way is it our trophy already(Well it is but but it's not ours to keep without alot of hard work) but like I say i'd back our work ethic and general fitness over pretty much every other side in the league. I'm not saying we're nailed on by any means but in the same breath I know I can say without being arrogant that it will take a very good side to stop us winning the title again this year. I believe Wire may be that side because theres no lack of talent and on a man for man basis your just as good as Wigan talent wise but like I say going back to a fitness issue and a work ethic issue i'd back us against anyone.

I'm a pessimistic git at the best of times and i don't say it lightly when I say we're a very good side. Thats not being arrogant because it's a fact. No side wins a superleague title without being a very good side.

For God's sake some of you, get over yourselves

We bought Solomona when he was fat, he's still fat (or even fatter). SO WHAT

He's the best off loading forward I've seen in years.

What do you want him to be. Another identikit 6'1", 15 stone player (like the majority of SL players, these days) or a fat so' n' so, who shows fantastic skill.

To mention him in the same breath as Feka, is, quite simply, embarrasing.

Have to say, your pack were outstanding tonight. Lovely to see the ginger whinger getting battered!

I don't want him to be anything. I'm happy with him the way he is, how he can call himself an athlete is, quite simply, embarrassing

That's the point....He isn't an athlete, he's a rugby player.

As Lefty rightly pointed out, he's in the Wire squad to provide something different from the predictable, if fitter, 15-16 stone trundlers, who bring little in the way of flair or imagination.

In my eyes, he is a 'luxury' worth taking a risk on.....He is a Plan B, when Plan A isn't going as expected.