Looks like a great buy after watching him in the 9s for Samoa at the weekend!
Great speed for a big guy, a few tackle busts and he scored a cracking try as well!
Looking forward to seeing him play!

On the NZ Warrior forum over the weekend one of their fans said that if Sao is going to a club where the coach will allow him to play his natural offloading game then he will love his time over here.

Over to you Radders!

Shame he hasn;t then

I’ve no doubt we will play that way for the first 3/4 games, it’s when we have a bad game or to many errors occur, that’s when we will revert back to the usual! Hopefully with the new attack coach coming in, that won’t happen

He'll go well I fancy...people as per finding issues not there

Prior to the collapse we were high up in the points scored categories
Scored a number of decent tries...griffin vs cat's n Kelly v Cas both probably in try of the year contention
Carlos and faraimo both in the league's top offloaders...prior to them fonua n watts always among leagues highest
Connor n Kelly both high end for errors. Which was a massive feature of our troubles. Trying to score instead of build or play catch up when no need. People endlessly saying "we're boring,we just take 5 drives and kick" what do you watch? I spent more time last year wishing we did do that than we actually did.
Our issue was having enough in the 20 which was a number of things but having generally players who can bust offload and just generally more dangerous will sort a lot of that

5 drives and a kick is what we do in the oppo 20

2020 moaning starting early I see.

I saw it more as a statement of fact in answer to a fanciful post,
proving people watch the same game but see different things, that's all.

Guess no one is allowed an opinion different to yours/Barista's otherwise it's moaning then.

Anyway not seen anything of Sao to form an opinion either way yet.

I wouldn’t worry about it, those mentioned would still be positive if we got hammered 50 nil every week. We need to find some intensity consistently and this squad should go well, with the new attack coach, I’m looking forward to the new season.

I completely agree with you.
Looking forward to the new season with renewed optimism, can't wait to see our new signings in action and to see if there is a change in our style of play.

It's a discussion board. If I see something I disagree with I'll post an opinion just like you just did.

That'll be why you couldn't tolerate my squad appraisals that differed to yours the other day. Perhaps time to heed advice you're very eager to dish out? x

Yes because our squad is on par with Wakefield according to you


Sorry I couldn't agree with that and your usual set the bar unreasonably low pre season guff you always spout.
If only we could have kept Greeny and resigned Jay Pitts instead of Satae or Jones or Ma'u, bet Wakefield fans are laughing at our recruitment.

Even you'd be hard pushed to find someone on here or even a Hull fan that would agree with you

Your fighting a losing battle, your arguing with people who don’t even believe what they’re saying. You really think mrs b believes our squad is on par with Wakefield’s, she just says these things to get bites out of daft lads like us ha

Oh dear. Please make up your mind whether it's OK to have a different opinion to others or not. Your hypocrisy is tying you in knots and I don't like to see it trouble you so,l.

Oh dear, you are struggling today aren't you.

It's fine to have a different opinion, just don't be upset when people disagree with you especially when you claim our squad is on par with Wakey, Cats, Cas and was it Salford?
Squad wise we are way above them especially as we are employing the marquee rule and they're not as far as I'm aware.
Whether we out perform them though is another question.

Can we leave it there now please, if that's okay with you?

Your tedium is wearing very thin.

Thanks and that.

To state categorically that our squad is "way above" Catalans and Castleford, for example is an opinion I disagree with, and obviously under your rules this is to be encouraged and respected. Thanks so much. Who is our marquee player?

Well they've got to get up to speed before the season starts.

Pre season training started early for the fanny flappers

Disgusting, Mrs b will definitely be getting you a ban

fanny
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a woman's genitals.

Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

You do realise that you can be happy with your own recruitment as a club without showing complete disrespect to another clubs new recruits? Fans like you are the main reason a club like Hull get a bad rap from other fans, similar to the arrogance shown by a few at Saints.

I think your recruitment is one of the best in the league this season a long with Wigans probably on paper, doesn't mean I have to start making sarcastic remarks about Derrell Olpherts and Tyla Hepi (Castleford recruits).

Very true, and I hope you don't tar us all with the arrogant entitlement brush, although judging by its pervasiveness on here you'd be justified in so doing.

The reality which some struggle with is that the Big 4 financially (Wigan, Leeds, Saints and Warrington) have a SL stranglehold and there's no reason anyone should [uexpect[/u this to change. Hope is another matter obviously. Quite why people want to belittle your squad when you've had such extensive injuries this year after a strong season in 2018 is baffling. Tupou, Johnstone and Fifita, just as examples, would walk into most squads.

Our recruitment has been good, I don't think many would disagree. But our props are Taylor, Satae, Bowden and Matongo, whereas Catalans for example have Casty, Kasiano, Moa and Bousquet. It suits the narrative to over egg the quality of our squad as "miles ahead" of teams we're on a par with so that when we don't achieve top 4 or whatever "expectation" is set out the shortfall can be attributed entirely to Lee Radford. Unfortunately, as you articulate, this comes across as arrogant and disrespectful. Personally I have a lot of time for the savviness of Carter and Chester's squad assembly and would imagine with much better luck in injuries you will be back in the mix for a play off spot.

No matter how much you’ll be in the right she/ he will always want the last say , even when not in season . That’s why I reckon it is a mrs ....

There was no disrespect intended merely highlighting to Barista the difference in club recruitment and quality of signings to counter act her comment that our squads are on a par.

You shouldn't be offended, that was never my intention, I understand that each club cut their cloth accordingly.
You've probably waded in mid discussion without realising the context it was meant in.

Thought this thread was about Ligi Sao? More like which fan is better than the other!