Should this lad arrive the equation is a simple one.

He’s had an injury which he appears to have recovered from.

Bill had an injury he couldn’t recover from.

Hence this guy or almost any current overseas player is a vast improvement.

If he stays fit and fits in he’s a win win.

Well yeah, it's not like there's anything to moan about is there?!

Worst defence in the league, 2nd worst attack. Let's hope this guy if he comes does the business, he looks good in what I've seen of him, and if he turns out to be anything like Bill for the first 3 or 4 years, he'll do for me.

I bet 'Tash would be glad if we got him rather than playing against him with some of the Red X balls he gets from MIlky....

Of course any player can and do pick up life changing/playing injuries, but the rigours of the NRL will certainly punish you more than playing in super league. You’ve only to watch how they bash each other to wonder how they walk away from some of the collisions . If Taufua does make it to Belle Vue he’ll have been through rigorous Testing on his injury before he could pull a shirt on again and be deemed fit for purpose . What we’ll get if it comes off is a players that’s played at the highest level in our sport and may well have had his nose shoved out whilst he’s been on the sidelines , snooze and you lose so to speak . Hopefully what we’ll get is a cut priced diamond who will lead us on the front foot and take the game to the opposition for many a year .

I see on his wiki page it says he has signed a short term deal with perennial wooden spoonists Wakefield Trinity!!

He's had more than one, he's had 3 majorish ones' including an acl, so there has to be some risk attached, but let's hope he has more of an impact than say Pauli Pauli, 'cause i remember people getting pretty excited after seeing youtube clips of him.

Well the bit about being perennial wooden spoonists is wrong because we have never been so in the SL era however to call us perennial strugglers is far more accurate in the recent past.

Here we go.

So what user name were you using last week to peddle the anti club rhetoric

To be fair he is technically right. There is a risk.....but for me, one worth taking.

And I'd say its pretty positive if he has to go back to 2018 to find a negative.

I would say catalans are taking a much bigger risk with Tom.
Also they have 2 very useful wingers on the books at present.

It's for the likes of you who no doubt IF he turns out to be another flop, will be the first to say told you so! Like when Poching was given the gig and you said wo betide anyone who slags him off after a few bad defeats, yet you were the first to start a thread saying he had got selections wrong etc!! I hope he's a rip roaring success, like i said if he's as good as Bill then great.

No, I'd only have to go back less than 2 weeks to find a negative of conceding 74 points to Salford, and loads of others sadly stretching way back to 2019. It's ironic that for me, the biggest 2 positives of this season have been Murphy and Hall, who i would suggest have come at a fraction of the cost of Lineham and Gaskell, who are now deemed not good enough to get into the team, care to comment??

Yep, that's wikipedia for you i guess

For those that haven't seen it, here is his monster hit on Cameron Munster from 2019.... https://m.facebook.com/nrl/videos/jorge ... ale2=sw_KE

For those that haven't seen it, here is his monster hit on Cameron Munster from 2019.... https://m.facebook.com/nrl/videos/jorge ... ale2=sw_KE

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All I did was Google him and it's the 3rd video clip down



(These EDSAC computers are really clever these days)

Wiki's been edited now to something far less disparaging to the club.....don't know how that happened

One was here already, one was signed by W Poaching. The other 2 were bought by The last Coach.The same Coach who one year spent all the cash for players, on 8 to 10 players who did nothing to strengthen the squad, never mind the match squad .We did not start looking any thing like till we got the team out that was playing the year before .Money just wasted for that season. ,and the beginning of the downward free fall to were we are now

Confirmed by manly he as been released from his contract

Fantastic news

What has been confirmed, his release or his signing by us?

His release, says expected to join Wakefield trinity (though this isn’t confirmed).

News outlets from 1 hour ago confirm this.

You've got an awesome player there, Skillful, fast and hits like a Tank. We tried to sign him at Warrington a few years ago but he turned us down as he wanted to stay at Manly at the time. Hit hits remind me of Steve Matai, flattens bigger players but he's 6'1 and about 16st himself. He'll cause havoc over here for you

On trinity twitter feed highlights clip of him with caption one more so guess he’s signed