Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:18 pm  

FickleFingerOfFate wrote:

Salford bound

I don’t know why but I doubt that.

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:53 pm  

Definitely a player in there somewhere but are we utilising him correctly and benefitting from his strengths?

His dip in form I can excuse as it came over a hectic period where players were dropping like flies...the busy Easter period...a time where I'd imagine it will take it out of the big fellas much more than others...

There's not many players around Super League the size of Pauli...I can think of a few other big men off the top of my head...Murdoch-Massilla...Cassiano...Masoe....how many of those have been asked to play 80 minutes this season?

It's a big ask for me for him to play 80 minutes as a backrower...especially defending edges where top quality halfbacks will look to exploit his size and mobility in D...

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 6:49 pm  

Pauli has definitely been offered a two-year contract with Salford but whether he's taken it I don't know

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 6:56 pm  

I like Pauli. Nice to see the odd storming run, but very prone to errors; knocking on etc.

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 7:04 pm  

Little willy wrote:

Pauli has definitely been offered a two-year contract with Salford but whether he's taken it I don't know

A bit strange.

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 7:33 pm  

upthecats wrote:

It's a big ask for me for him to play 80 minutes as a backrower...especially defending edges where top quality halfbacks will look to exploit his size and mobility in D...

mebbe its part of his fitness program

I think he should be spelled but that is dependent on sub management and tactics.

I don't think we're playing to his strengths, but that's above my pay grade...

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:08 pm  

Fishermanscap wrote:

I don’t know why but I doubt that.

I don’t, he’s a goner by the sounds.

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:10 pm  

Aaron Bower tweeting that he’s set to leave us at the end of the season to join Salford...more in tomorrow’s League Express!

Shame, but as fans we don’t know all that goes on...money etc...so am happy to back their decisions....Kelepi could be a belter next season anyway judged on early signs...

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:16 pm  

On front pages of rugby papers it says that another player signing a new contract and that a player we are after is too pricey guessing that could be westerman

Re: Pauli : Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:28 pm  

Think he'll be a real asset when spelled. Shame to see him go but Chester seems to like the workhorse forwards though and unfortunately Pauli is not that.