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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:52 pm  
Pieman wrote:
were crying out for one



Exactly what we are missing.
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:59 pm  
In fairness, we signed George Burgess with the intention he would be that marquee top class prop for the club.

Who is available/realistic for us to sign? Singleton & Bullock will only keep getting better as the season goes on IMO.
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:32 pm  
There’s a real lack of top class options in this country that’s for sure. We’ve wanted Watts for years as fans but even he doesn’t look quite at his best currently. It’ll be somebody from Down Under if we sign anybody this season. I just think it’s so important Lam keeps driving those props we do have to perform and if anybody has an iffy game, give guys like Clark and Kilner a go and make the lads earn their shirts.
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 7:41 pm  
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There’s a real lack of top class options in this country that’s for sure. We’ve wanted Watts for years as fans but even he doesn’t look quite at his best currently. It’ll be somebody from Down Under if we sign anybody this season. I just think it’s so important Lam keeps driving those props we do have to perform and if anybody has an iffy game, give guys like Clark and Kilner a go and make the lads earn their shirts.

Penalties and daft stuff is the thing with Watts. He's been top 20 in the league for penalties every year bar one since 2015. I think he's suited being at clubs where a penalty doesn't lose you a semi or final, and I think it's why we haven't seen him in an England shirt. I'd love someone with his attacking talent without the pens though!

The props from down under seem to come over with not enough tread left on the tyres, I'd honestly be looking to the Championship. There are plenty lads who get released from academies at 19, a decade before their peak as props, who would come for a low wage and maybe be the next Hill/Walmsley/Peacock (I know Peacock didn't come from the Championship but he did debut after he would have been released under the current system).
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 8:31 pm  
Whilst I'd love a top / A+ prop, I'd still be more than happy for us to sign someone who fly's under the radar a little & might become that level of player.

Like others have said the prop we all want probably isn't available. Maybe we need to then look at the next level down?

Someone like Corey Jensen at the Cowboys. We got linked with him 18 months ago (around the same time as we signed Clark), but nothing came of it. He's not the gun prop we'd all want, but he'd improve us.
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:25 pm  
Wakefield set to announce Andrew Fifita imminently according to the Yorkshire Post. If this is true, and given he’s not played NRL this season yet so it likely is, my question is why aren’t we after a prop of his calibre? He’s an absolute wrecking ball and would be exactly what we’re after.
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:31 pm  
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Wakefield set to announce Andrew Fifita imminently according to the Yorkshire Post. If this is true, and given he’s not played NRL this season yet so it likely is, my question is why aren’t we after a prop of his calibre? He’s an absolute wrecking ball and would be exactly what we’re after.


He is shot.

He has major issues with his knee. He was offered to all SL clubs in the offseason and only Leeds bit but they soon withdrew when the extent of the injury was revealed.

Wakefield are in a desperate situation and by all accounts will only be paying a small % of his salary.

We need someone who is more than a panic signing like him.
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:34 pm  
100% Warrior wrote:
Wakefield set to announce Andrew Fifita imminently according to the Yorkshire Post. If this is true, and given he’s not played NRL this season yet so it likely is, my question is why aren’t we after a prop of his calibre? He’s an absolute wrecking ball and would be exactly what we’re after.
I think you could offer him the world but from what we know playing along side David means more to him, its a hell of a risk but I hope its true we need him more than you do
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:36 pm  
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He is shot.

He has major issues with his knee. He was offered to all SL clubs in the offseason and only Leeds bit but they soon withdrew when the extent of the injury was revealed.

Wakefield are in a desperate situation and by all accounts will only be paying a small % of his salary.

We need someone who is more than a panic signing like him.


The last I’ve read is that he’s lost 20kg, is getting over his knee injury and is looking good. I’ll try and find where I read it but I think it was a tweet rather than an article.

If what you say is true then fair enough, I’ll happily stand corrected, but if not or he does get back his form (or form good enough to dominate in SL) we’ve lost out on a huge signing
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Re: The Prop Problem : Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:14 pm  
100% Warrior wrote:
The last I’ve read is that he’s lost 20kg, is getting over his knee injury and is looking good. I’ll try and find where I read it but I think it was a tweet rather than an article.

If what you say is true then fair enough, I’ll happily stand corrected, but if not or he does get back his form (or form good enough to dominate in SL) we’ve lost out on a huge signing

Do we have the cap room anyway? If Jukesays is right about a fair portion of the Burgess money going on upgrades for French and Hastings then we might not have much choice for this year.
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