Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:07 pm  

FIL wrote:

Okay...I've taken Benson out and put Seers at centre and replaced him at full back with Kevin Locke.
Still a vacancy at 11 though

Steve Southern would be my No11. Thought the bloke was a total waste of space and he was on good money. Not only that his picture was on a stobbart truck I believe. He was also on all those buses 'Taking back the City'
Came with a load of hype, but only gave a load of tripe.

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:18 pm  

FIL wrote:

1) Kevin Locke
2) Jorge Taufua
3) Vince Mellor
4) Matt Seers
5) Matt Peterson
6) Julian O'Neill
7) Harry Siejka
8 ) Jarrod Hickey
9) Albert Talipeau
10) Clinton O'Brien
11)
12) Anthony Tupou
13) Kevin Proctor
14) Jeremy Smith
15) Robert Piva
16) Ronnie Trautmann
17) Brent Todd

Okay...I've taken Benson out and put Seers at centre and replaced him at full back with Kevin Locke.
Still a vacancy at 11 though

The thought just struck me that the line up above would have given this years team a severe towelling!

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:44 pm  

FIL wrote:

1) Kevin Locke
2) Jorge Taufua
3) Vince Mellor
4) Matt Seers
5) Matt Peterson
6) Julian O'Neill
7) Harry Siejka
8 ) Jarrod Hickey
9) Albert Talipeau
10) Clinton O'Brien
11)
12) Anthony Tupou
13) Kevin Proctor
14) Jeremy Smith
15) Robert Piva
16) Ronnie Trautmann
17) Brent Todd

Okay...I've taken Benson out and put Seers at centre and replaced him at full back with Kevin Locke.
Still a vacancy at 11 though

Dennis Beecraft would be my choice

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:02 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Id agree with you on that.

Although I didn't see all of his games for us, what I did see was someone who tackled hard, and always seemed to win the collision, and I think putting him in at prop, just broke him

Certainly did ,wasn’t from lack of effort , but got battered in most collisions by bigger men

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:40 pm  

FIL wrote:

That was Nathan Wood and Ben Westwood....Nathan played well for us so that's why Wire signed him and IIRC Ben is a Wakey lad so doesn't qualify as overseas

New he did not qualify but thanks

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:42 pm  

Thought david baily may of mentioned came over with aron whitiker and played with whitiker for new zealand but was another dudd

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:26 pm  

Lyndsey Gill, Wally's minder absolutely useless at anything else.

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:55 pm  

Perhaps a spot could be opened up for Danny Lima?

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:24 pm  

Alfie Songoro maybe? Not sure many here will remember him.

Re: Worst overseas signings : Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:42 pm  

Truthfully I ve seen all of the ones mentioned so far play and by a mile proctor is the worst.

Clinton o brien came injured and retired when he couldn’t cut it - unlike proctor who hung around like a bad smell
Brent Todd was a massive disappointment ten yards and fell on his belly but when you watched him before and after in nrl that’s what he did - think we thought we were getting the next mark graham
Robert piva was like a lot of the signings we made big guy plenty potential but then had that horrendous injury - at dewsbury I think

Lino Foai was another big disappointment - we’d signed the next jona Lomu apart from one run down the wing he did zilch

Side show bob was on a par with proctor , but don’t think Wally Lewis younger brother was much better