Re: misi taulapapa : Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:39 pm  

barham red wrote:

Bit like heremaia then,

this signing looks like he will be a stop gap to back up sheriff, fill the cockayne role.

Yes, apart from the fact Heremeia has since gone back to the NRL and won a cap for the world champions.

Re: misi taulapapa : Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:02 pm  

Old_Faithful_IAKW wrote:

Yes, apart from the fact Heremeia has since gone back to the NRL and won a cap for the world champions.

Ouch. Nicely done.

Can't believe no one's done the "Big name" signing joke yet with such a convoluted surname. Disappointing.

Re: misi taulapapa : Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:54 pm  

barham red wrote:

Bit like heremaia then,

this signing looks like he will be a stop gap to back up sheriff, fill the cockayne role.

Or indeed the Briscoe role

Re: misi taulapapa : Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:03 am  

Diogenes wrote:

Or indeed the Briscoe role

The plan was forCockayne to be spelling sheriff at fb next year until he was in a position to be playing week in week out. Cockayne would then slot back into his utility role. If briscoe had stayed he would be 1st choice fb

[Kosh]

Re: misi taulapapa : Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:17 am  

barham red wrote:

Bit like heremaia then

I must have missed the bit where MT went back to the NRL and had a successful career with the NZ Warriors.

[Mild Rover]

Re: misi taulapapa : Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:24 am  

Kosh wrote:

I must have missed the bit where MT went back to the NRL and had a successful career with the NZ Warriors.

Fortunately for you so did the RFL.

edit - that doesn't quite work, does it? You know what I mean - Aaron Heremaia, dispensation, my deliberate hypocrisy, etc, etc.

Re: misi taulapapa : Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:28 am  

Old_Faithful_IAKW wrote:

Compared to yours they are. The quality of quota signings are obviously coming down but looking at who we've signed. Heremeia is one of the form hookers in the league form what I've seen, McKinnon was the West Tigers fans player of the season runner up - to Benji Marshall last year and Seymour, at 26, with over 120 NRL appearances is a good signing IMO - Dobson/Green/Chase were unknowns in the NRL and have come to SL and performed really well.

Doubt it he only played six matches in 2010 due to a hamstring injury Gareth Ellis was Wests player of the year in 2010. After been on the bench for several weeks Wade didn't make the 17 this week
Brett Seymour hasn't played since the end of June

Re: misi taulapapa : Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:57 am  

I could join in this pointless squabble about players who have yet to perform in this fair city, but I don't think I will bother. Lets face it, the likes of Dobson and Green have proven that previous doesn't count for a lot, Green in particular was seen as a never-has-been who was on par with Chaz I'Anson by some prior to his arrival. Similarly, I'm sure the lesser known lights bound for Hull and Rovers in 2012 will all come with points to prove.

Lets hope Missingtacklespapa (I thought I'd get it in before Hutchie turns up!) is a shrewd signing.

[Kosh]

Re: misi taulapapa : Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:39 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

Fortunately for you so did the RFL.

edit - that doesn't quite work, does it? You know what I mean - Aaron Heremaia, dispensation, my deliberate hypocrisy, etc, etc.

Still don't see how that works, mind. Either the RFL have given up completely or we've found some really obscure loophole.

[Mild Rover]

Re: misi taulapapa : Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:00 pm  

Kosh wrote:

:thumb:

Still don't see how that works, mind. Either the RFL have given up completely or we've found some really obscure loophole.

Politics I reckon. Adam, enjoying his Blairite 'Things can only get better' honeymoon, rides in to Red Hall and points out how they bent over backwards to accomodate William Marshall Mason at Hull KR. As the leader of New 'ulla, he wants to sign an Aussie superstar to appease the masses, but Kath (who in this analogy is Kinnock), has already filled the quota - can they help him out? Given the new Third Way-esque entente cordiale between AP and NH (Brown or Ashdown, can't decide), Rovers might even have offered informal support.