what justification? what garb?
the coach,who has a pretty decent recored upto now,decides kylie is worth a 2.5 year deal. he see's him in training every day so he is a better position to decide than either you or me petal.


unless you know better of course

I will swim against the tide with you on this one. I agree with every word.

You had a good smoke today Bob?

I see Bradford have signed Glenn Hall from Manley.
Should we have opted for him instead of retaining Kylie or even instead of Eastwood?

No I don't think so. Kylie does a great job for us when on form. With regards to eastwood we need a 2nd row more than another prob imo.

Yes. Any player who signs for another SL club is automatically better than anything we've already got, or indeed are interested in.

Eastwood is a 2nd row who can play prop.

Eastwood is an interchange prop in the NRL and for his country also and has been all the time since Leeds announced his capture and I started taken an interest in him both at the Broncos and now at the Bulldogs.

And your point is?

Not that I dispute your claim tvoc. But in contrast that would not hold the opinion of GH in good light.

Considering that on heralding his signing, he also stated that Eastwood could cover Centre and Stand off, and was a ball playing back rower.

That is a big difference to somebody playing prop every week.

Did he really say that?

If he did he clearly hadn't seen Eastwood play!!

Yep. All true. Which is why I used it in response to tvoc. Have to questioni the recruiting there.

And your point is what exactly?

My recollection is that Dazzy is correct.

That said, GH also heralded Jamie Peacock as a direct replacement for Chris McKenna in the second row.

What he says and what he means may not always ne the same thing.

With Eastwood he may have been seeking to show him as an Ellis replacement - a back rower who could play centre and had played s/o.

After his signing was announced last year he featured in one of the Broncos games on Setanta. The commentators there were saying he'd been earmarked by Brisbane as TC's natural successor at "lock", which would fit in with his build and ball handling ability, in my opinion. Maybe he wouldn't make an "English" loose-forward, but the Aussies tend to play their 13's slightly differently.