Mau'u is an odd one in that he is putting a shift in but offering nothing special. I was expecting Willie Manu style rampaging runs. He may have to be sacrificed to free up cap and a quota spot for someone else

Someone mentioned about not getting “bang for our buck” with overseas players

I reckon if we could reset, BH would do things differently. We’ve had an unbalanced squad for years now.

With the current climate can't image a big changeover. Sneyd won't be going anywhere. Bowden masi Houghton Scott may well be offered up. Who knows?

Satae and Sao have been great singings. Faraimo and Mau'u do just about enough and its hard to find European players of that size. I'm prepared to give Reynolds a bit longer as Sneyd is doing nothing alongside him and its been a revolving cast of fullbacks all season but early signs aren't great. Its Fonua who has been the bad buy.

Edit: I forget Carlos isn't an Ull lad he's been here that long! He always a good performer.

I agree with you about big Chris and Ligi but lets not forget Chris was doing very little when he first arrived under Radford.
Whether that was because of lack of fitness or Radford not using him correctly i dont know but under Hodgson he is now one of the best if not the best front rows in S/L.
Faraimo has been unlucky that his contract was up a year before Fonua because had they been at the same time Fonua would have been the one to move on to create the overseas spot,Faraimo is just as strong,more pace and makes less errors than Fonua.
Think Mau works very hard but we will never see the best of his running game whilst Sneyd is the half back working with him.
Our problems are at half back,and at nine.Yes we miss Connor,and several forwards but we need to address the obvious shortcomings in these positions.