Perfect for us, then!

also newspaper rumours linking with us to Heighington.

Hope not... far too similar to Mini & Gaz Ellis..for mine, Would like an explosive back rower with ball skills.

After watching Aussie rugby for a while and having watched Samoa at weekend please Mr Pearson can we have Frank Pritchard and Konrad Hurrell. They would be awesome in super league if we stay there.

When fit, miles better than what weve got. .. but a dislocated hip is a big injury, one of which his form has never recoverd from by all accounts

Heighington and Lawrence both seem like Radford type signings. I would be happy with both although Pritchard and Hurrell would make me happier.

A bit of a gamble due to his fitness record, but if fit could be an excellent signing, certainly worked for Rovers with Campese. Miles better than any of our current centres and still only 26, he is a better player than Joel Moon and Gelling who are two of the best centres in SL.

Crikey.

That's on paper, as we know things don't always work out as they should.

Dislocated mine playing when I was 23 and that was my playing done for. 20 years on and it still hurts! None existent nhs after care probably didn't help though compared to what he would have got. Never the less, not a pleasant injury.

Ah, the old on paper deliberation. Never trusted it.

If you do the "not played on paper played on grass" thing, I'm going to foe you.

Lawrence Pearce has turned out to be a decent back rower...in union at Leicester Tigers were he is currently ripping it up, shame we tried to play him as a winger.

Crikey

You're exempt. Unless you do "papering over the cracks".

Don't think we ever did. Just something tevita said in paper. Used to play him 2nd row n prop in the 20s but didn't even have the engine for that. Coaches used to try keep him on so he'd push through n get his 2nd wind but he didn't have the stomach for it. Lost count of the times he went off injured but played every week. Not cut out for league.

Pearce never had the fitness levels required for RL.

Wonder if the centre we could be linked with is Dane Nielson? Just realised with immediate effect from St George.

don't think we'd get him on the salary cap this season.

Surely wed get close if we got rid of the utter dross stealing a living in our squad...

Wow.

Wow all you want, you know im right

Exactly, at least they have played on grass not on.....

"They will only get better"

He was looking pretty trim when I watched the highlights of the Leicester game but yeah I get that if you can't get to where a club wants you within X period of time you're basically out the door.
Just that some players flourish later than others, not saying Pearce would have been anything special but I reckon certain players can fall by the wayside on size alone as it's [igenerally[/i considered to be a pre-requisite. The concept that some players can fight well above their weight and indeed still make an impact does pass SL coaches and fans by at times.

Similarly if there was an issue with his conditioning how was that handled, was he mature enough to keep to a certain regime, anyway it might have done him good to be playing lower league union and realise he needed to sort out his stamina.


I'm sure it was on the clubs website that he was being touted as a winger as well as other places.

Think we played Pearce at centre in the u20 to get him to do 80 minutes but with less impact than at prop?

He definitely looks in much better shape for the kick and clappers, guess they must have much better, er, conditioning.