Re: 3 more gone : Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:43 pm  

FIL wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Magoulias

Can't see the difference between this player's stats and that of Sadiq Adebiyi, other than he doesn't play prop, he's another very short forward.

He will also cost more and take up a quota spot.

I have no idea if he's any good but at first glance, it's hard to get excited.

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Re: 3 more gone : Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:37 pm  

He's touted as being the next Paul Gallan so I think he'll do for us.
He had a couple of dream games when he created a try out of nothing to win big games.
He's on YouTube.

Re: 3 more gone : Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:35 pm  

PopTart wrote:

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He's on YouTube.

Isn't everybody?

Someone even managed a highlights reel for Alex Walker.

Re: 3 more gone : Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:36 pm  

PopTart wrote:

He's touted as being the next Paul Gallan so I think he'll do for us.
He had a couple of dream games when he created a try out of nothing to win big games.
He's on YouTube.

If he was the next Paul Gallan he wouldn’t be heading for SL let alone us.

I’m willing to believe he could be a useful signing but that’s gilding the Lilly in the extreme.

Re: 3 more gone : Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:37 pm  

Wollo-Wollo-Wollo-Wayoo wrote:

Isn't everybody?

Someone even managed a highlights reel for Alex Walker.

Mainly wearing a London shirt I’d guess.

Re: 3 more gone : Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:22 pm  

vastman wrote:

Mainly wearing a London shirt I’d guess.

Yeah, throughout.

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Re: 3 more gone : Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:10 pm  

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vastman wrote:

If he was the next Paul Gallan he wouldn’t be heading for SL let alone us.

I’m willing to believe he could be a useful signing but that’s gilding the Lilly in the extreme.

I'm only relaying what has been said in Oz.
Everyone has to start somewhere.

Re: 3 more gone : Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:27 am  

I’d be very suprised if Magoulias drops out of the NRL, as he’s a decent player and also pretty young. With Cronulla having signed Finucane at 13, I’d be suprised if no other NRL team snaps him up. Wasn’t that long ago that Capewell was linked to us after being unwanted by Cronulla. Within 2 seasons hes become an origin player and won a GF.

Re: 3 more gone : Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:00 am  

Pat Bateman wrote:

I’d be very suprised if Magoulias drops out of the NRL, as he’s a decent player and also pretty young. With Cronulla having signed Finucane at 13, I’d be suprised if no other NRL team snaps him up. Wasn’t that long ago that Capewell was linked to us after being unwanted by Cronulla. Within 2 seasons hes become an origin player and won a GF.

That is pretty young

Re: 3 more gone : Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:06 am  

PopTart wrote:

[code][/code]I'm only relaying what has been said in Oz.
Everyone has to start somewhere.

True and I don’t know if he is tbh though if he joined us I’d start to wonder but who knows.

The point I’m making is that we’ve signed a very similar player or may have done in SA. Seems like overkill to bring one over from Oz, especially when the British game actually produces a lot of this kind of player.

Although I’m a fan of the universal forward I’m not sure that’s what we should be using the quota for, see my reasons above.

For me a quota player should be special, a player that simply isn’t available in the British game or at least not to us.

Fifita and Tanginoa are great examples. Fifita in particular, not much of an NRL rep yet he clearly gave us something we couldn’t find domestically.

I’m only musing, heaven forbid that anyone took my opinion on players too seriously, in the coach I trust.