Can he actually speak English, or was this a joke?

Just been watching the replay on Sky+, and in the last incident with 10 seconds to go, the ref calls him and Radford over and the ref says "Can you speak English?" and Radford says "he can a little bit".

I was under the impression his first language was in fact English?

So you didn't hear his response in English, something like "what did you ask me that for" and "I'm not taking that from you".

Was just Radford winding silverwood up.
There is an interview with Hame on Hull FCTV.He certainly speak's english on that.

It was a pretty good wind up by Radford. Silverwood still getting the hook out of his mouth apparently.

It made me chuckle

Clearly not. Just watched it again. Yeah he says that after which I've just laughed at.

Silverwood - Do you speak English?
Lauaki - What?!


Radford - A little bit, just a little bit.
Lauaki - I'm not taking that sorta crap from you. Why you say that?
Silverwood - 'Cos he (Radford) said you can't speak English



Good stuff!



If you watch the incident on the 68th minute when Silverwood has a word with Lauaki after the Morrison "reverse-gear" incident (great quote from Phil Clarke there!), Radford comes in and says "he can't speak English mate", which (in hindsight) is pretty funny!



Boots N All need an e-mail about this!

apart from the fighting I was a bit underwhelmed by his performance to be honest, he spent most of the game out wide as though he was playing centre, when he should have been driving the ball up

i'll give him the benefit of the doubt though, as Agar probably told him to play on the wing or something

He was playing 2nd row for much of the match and IMO looked quite effective running out wide.

I thought he was asking if Radford spoke english!!

Lauaki is more of a ball playing back row forward then a battering ram prop, his main weakness is probably his defence. Was pretty quiet in the first half, but pretty decent second half. If he is anyway near the player he was at the Warriors he'll be a very good signing IMO.

He certainly seems to be a target of a few other clubs when they're playing. We need to play off that as often as possible. He drew in McCarthey-Scarsbrook against Quins, and now Morrison against Bradford. Just the sort of player we need.

Him, Manu and Moa all need to stay. They bring the aggression and back everyone up when needed.

Add to that list O'meley.

Add O'Meley and Fitzbiggon to the list too. For years we have been way too soft in the pack.

Just need a world class half back that can boss us around the field, to compliment Long at 7 and we will be sorted

dont forget a new coach aswell otherwise ur on the ball greeny

good stuff that,i thought it great when silverwood called radford over to talk to him after his try and Radders" said i just warned the kid"silverwood said i called you over to talk to u not for u to talk to me ,that tickled me

How rude to even ask that in the 1st place?

Not really. He might not have spoken English. And if he didn't, what's the point in lecturing him?!

But he fell for it from Radford and made himself look stupid. (And me!)

Hasn't he just had to prove he could to get his visa?

Yep, you do that and see him spend 10 or more minutes on the bench. And thats not subbing.

Thanks for that input. So far it is proved to be total shiite

TBF thats Lauakis 3rd game in a year and he is clearly not fully match fit. However he gives us some impact without a doubt and a nice pair of hands to boot.

Defensively unsure but prob down to fitness and attacking wise 2 of the 3 Briscoe tries in the last 2 games are down to Lauaki.

Think he came on in the second row as King and Moa was the props on the bench.

Wasn't it his long pass to whiting whicj led to briscoe's 2nd try?

Wasted at prop