Must have ripped it up in the non televised games then.

you don't have to rip it up to be a good player. He did what wigan wanted him to, drive it in hard and tackle well and he did that.

I must have seen him a few times playing for Wigan and he looked the same player as he was at Hull, nothing but average, for a bloke his size and with his skills (which he showed at times) he should be doing more than he did, you can get kids out of the academy to drive hard and tackle well, you dont sign a overseas player on decent money and on a 4 year deal to be average, his stats last year are poor.

On the subject of Gelling, always liked him, he has mistakes in his game, but always thought he has the X factor about him, and he is finally showing it with a decent run in the team. I said about two years ago when he was struggling to get into the Wigan side he would be a good signing for us.

Also dont be fooled by video highlights, Richie Barnett looks the worlds best winger if you watch his highlights on youtube.

He played as well as most of our props bar mossop, he was far from a poor signing.

Im not basing my expectation on highlights but if you look on tube you will that there is a highlight of his general game player not just the best bits.

I must have been watching a different Lauaki and Wigan clearly signed a different one.

The one I saw was a slow, penalty machine with an occasional ability to bust a tackle and 99% of Hull fans were scratching their heads when Wigan signed him.

Whatever anyone thinks of him he does get some good moves

clearly you did, penalty machine? he was one of the lowest penalty givers in the pack. and it always took 3 to stop him and he had a decent offload. No matter how bitter hull fans are that he was complete poo for them he was actually decent at Wigan.

He was somewhat of a penalty machine for us so you guys obviously managed to get the best out of him. I'm certainly not bitter that he played better at Wigan than at FC. One of those things.

Not sure on stats but was he really a penalty machine? i certainly remember him giving penalties away at stupid times which cost us. Think twice i remember him giving away penalties when he actually had the ball!

from my recollection he was slightly ahead of Tickle in the penalty stakes, and Tickle seemed to give away plenty?

It's also not just about the quantity of penalties they conceded but the times at which they gave them away.

Usually on the last tackle when all the hard work had been done.

Tend to get noticed more then.

Good twitter rumours these

He was far from a penalty machine (that seems to have come about after the Rovers fixture) but he was less than impressive as a Hull player. Suspect in defence and looked lethargic running it in more often than not. Which was disappointing because he showed he could be a decent player at times.. The hand off on Pryce in the Saints fog game and the way he drew the man before slipping out a lovely pass to Yeaman in a game against Salford at the KC.
Apart from that for me his only other stand out moments were the Burrows incident and the warning he got from Silverwood in the aforementioned derby game.

Most of the Wigan fans on their forum were saying he was gash most of the time so not sure where Dubiarl is getting this insider knowledge that Lauaki was this monster player for them. He was so good that he was got shot of as soon as, he was gash for us 95% of the time and no better for the goons, Wane made a major blunder on that one..same as Powell whom I predicted would fail and got shouted down over it.
Given it was obvious he was never going to cut the mustard in RL it made me chuckle to see him slope off after 5 games never to return..

I remember plenty of threads on the wigan board slagging lauaki off. He was useless for a man of his size

Another Okesene. Big reputation, small ability.

I thought this was a rumour thread,not a discussion on lauaki,too many people seem to be derailing threads.
Dobson has definitely signed for salford.

Thought this was an fc board??? As for dobbo, weres the proof???

Were you not hoping to sign him ?

go back to the dobbins forum ,why you always on here ? idiot at best troll at worst,

Why haven't you put it on the rovers forum seeing you have a Dobson watch thread going??

Because they all think des is a dick aswell

Dobbo watch was to see how he was playing not who he was signing for that's what Hull fans have been saying on the rumours thread so I guess that's why he put it on here not to hard to understand really

Yes we are, but your stating hes signing for salford when you have no proof at all.
But warrington an saints are sniffing round him arnt they??

He is coming back Warrington or Salford would be my bet but I don't pretend to be in the know