I assume your source is reliable, do you know the length of contract etc?

Quote roopy="roopy"He is a very good player in the Qld cup, but the big guy just can't have the same impact in the NRL because you can't run around at that pace if you are 130kg. He was a Newcastle Knights junior, and Craig Bellamy actually played with his father in the Newcastle Rugby League. Bellamy brought him from Newcastle Wests and got him fit enough for NRL - got him down to 120kg I believe. He had some decent games for Melbourne, but not many. He mostly played for their feeder team in the Qld cup, where he was a legend with his big runs. Bennett bought him because of his great form in the Qld cup, but has obviously decided he will never be able to play as well at the pace of the NRL. Garbo says the ESL will suit his style of play, and I think that is right. He will have a lot of impact as long as he isn't run around so much he is gassed all the time, like he was in the NRL. This is a clip from the Storm website titled Mitch Garbutt best kick return ever. It's from when he led the storm feeder club to a title in the Qld cup. Junior Sau scores the try. bigpondvideo.com/video/554879/'" To be fair, even Ryan Bailey managed one devastating kick-off return in his career

Quote roopy="roopy"He is a very good player in the Qld cup, but the big guy just can't have the same impact in the NRL because you can't run around at that pace if you are 130kg. He was a Newcastle Knights junior, and Craig Bellamy actually played with his father in the Newcastle Rugby League. Bellamy brought him from Newcastle Wests and got him fit enough for NRL - got him down to 120kg I believe. He had some decent games for Melbourne, but not many. He mostly played for their feeder team in the Qld cup, where he was a legend with his big runs. Bennett bought him because of his great form in the Qld cup, but has obviously decided he will never be able to play as well at the pace of the NRL. Garbo says the ESL will suit his style of play, and I think that is right. He will have a lot of impact as long as he isn't run around so much he is gassed all the time, like he was in the NRL. This is a clip from the Storm website titled Mitch Garbutt best kick return ever. It's from when he led the storm feeder club to a title in the Qld cup. Junior Sau scores the try. bigpondvideo.com/video/554879/'" To be fair, even Ryan Bailey managed one devastating kick-off return in his career

A bit of grunt is what we need up front especially now JP and his long minutes are going. At 120 kilos this guy should give us a bit of that.

As others have said, hopefully there is one more in the pipeline for next year

One of those moves you never forget....Catalans away



For some reason I also remember Bailey making a try for Watkins at Hull KR and getting sparked out in the process. (TVOC could no doubt tell us the date) It was probably the move that persuaded the club to sign him

All the way back in February 2009.

..... a better effort than his attempt to walk over Mathers at Wembley (who knows what would had happened if he had done the more simple thing of scoring?)

Come to think of it what happened to Mathers too? London I think wasn't it?

...and Jodie Broughton (Still at the Giants?). Like TVOC I always thought he was one that Leeds let 'get away' and would one day come back to haunt us.
However I must confess it does seem that the ones that Leeds let go never do seem to ever again reach the heights many detractors expected of them. Or am I wrong?? Even Ali seems to have faded from the limelight.

He looks like the replacement for Kylie which is right would fit with what sounds like his style I.e. big runs but needs to be spelled.

That style should also complement singo and cuthbertson, not forgetting the lad from Huddersfield.

Within a month our front row problems look sorted, on paper anyway.

And Garbutt gets half a season to bed in before jp and Kylie go.

Never doubted you Mr Hetherington sir.

Bennett didn't sign him - he was quite sought after and was signed under Griffin IIRC.

Next season If everything goes to plan, potentially we should have an extremely quick and mobile pack.
It would be the icing on the cake if we managed to find a hooker to spell aiton.

Thanks for the replies re being 'cup tied' - I probably took the words used in the more literal / football sense of 'having played in that competition for another team already'. Ta for clearing up my misunderstanding

Looks and sounds like a perfect replacement for Kylie and very much needed now just hope he settles in and makes an impact.