LOL, the guy who posted it always calls Fielden Fielding for some strange reson

supposedly going to Tigers

Good solid player. Read the other day that Watmough was being linked with the Storm

Can you imagine that pack?

Frank Ponissi denied the Watmough to Storm rumours:

Ponissi said.

"But I can categorically state we have made no approach to him about playing for us in 2010 or 2011. There is no truth in rumours that he is coming to visit us or that discussions are being held. As good as he is, there is no way for us to sign Anthony Watmough."

Can't find the article about Lima, but it was basically both Lima and the Storm said he was going nowhere and had 2 years left on his contract.

Was a interview about the storms cap and they mentioned Lima as a player that could move on because of it.

Shame because he would have been a good signing

How i'd love Watmough at Wigan, but obviously not going to happen.

I rate Lima and would be happy to see him at Wigan, it's a more plausible target with him being a Kiwi and there being no giving up test/origin selection issues. Still I can't see us signing anybody of that calibre unless we can offload.

On a separate note, but while we're talking about forwards I was reading something that surprised me the other day. The forward a lot of New Zealand Warriors fans would most like to return was not Fui Fui Moi Moi (which surprised me) but our very own Feka, a lot of them were also quite shocked about his current weight - just show's our expectations of the big guy should be higher and hopefully might be addressed.

If were on about possible storm props coming to us I'd love to see us get Sika Manu or Adam Blair, both guys are young and by coming to the UK they wouldn't have to forfeit there International career because they play for NZ.

Adam Blairs stats pretty immense really.

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Don't know if any of you will care any more though.

Theres a thread on it

Apparently the Storm have a young prop called Gareth Widdop. Won MOM in the Toyota Cup scored 2, set 1 up and kicked goals 2/5. Sounds like a good young prop.

Except he's a fullback

He is technically british though

Unfortunate choice of phrase

Just passing on a rumour i heard from a Wigan fan i work with?

Any thoughts? I feel sometimes you do lack that aggresive edge, although with Bailey you'll pay for that aggression in penalties!

Apologies if this has been mentioned on your forum before

I've always been a Ryan Bailey fan, ever since I saw him and Gareth Hock tear into the Aussie U18's pack (literally) a few years ago.

Shaun Wayne said on radio last Thursday that we need "some dog" in the pack.

Bailey would do that job admirably.

Personally, I'd be very disappointed if our new prop forward was Ryan Bailey. If we're going to sign a forward and not trust to our own, I'd hope that we'd be aiming much higher than that. I don't see that he'd be any improvement on the lads we've currently got.

Feka has racked the pounds on during his time with us and he needs to be reigned in by the new coaching staff.

If Feka got to the level of fitness he had around the time he signed for us I really do think he'd be the best impact prop in world RL!

Imo he's the one guy in the squad we could see the biggest turn around in.

If we can get Feka fit he'd be in the top five props in the league IMO

If anyone wants to know how Feka should be looking just look at these pictures

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We need some dog but Bailey is no dog.

There's a difference between being a soft, jumped up cocky $h1t, and being a solid enforcer. Bailey is more of the former as opposed to the latter.

Technically?

I agree.

Its not always about fronting up and smacking someone on the jaw, its the niggle in the tackle etc that just makes players unpleasent to play against that is also part or a Props job in my opinion.

Feka is almost unrecognisable.

Crazy isn't it to see the change in him.

In those pictures he's comparable in physique to Fui Fui Moi Moi and Wiki.

I'd love him to get near to that level of fitness again as it would improve our team no end.

That is the Feca we signed and now look at how 3 years of Mike forshaw conditioning has turned him in to.

Agreed.

If we have money, lets not go wasting it on average SL players, we have those. We need to improve the squad with real quality players.

I don't want to go OTT about Feka but, imo, its a massive problem and it's hurting the team.

We talk about needing to bring in a new ‘dog’ prop but we fail to realise the huge benefits we could get by conditioning both Feka and Fielden to an acceptable level.

When Feka was the size he was on those pictures the guy was in NZ squad that won the tri nations!! He was really was lean and human wrecking ball.

A bigger Fielden and a slimed down Feka off our bench would be game changing.