I thought the game was given away about Rapira the other day from a Sam Tomkins tweet?

Signing for Wigan?

Gotcha wrote:I thought the game was given away about Rapira the other day from a Sam Tomkins tweet?


Signing for Wigan?

Is that to make Sam feel back at home?

No a Yorkshire side, which I took as meaning Leeds. In the message it said from Sam to Rapira, now you are an adopted Yorkshire man for next season.

Ah OK. I just had a gander on twitter (not that I use it much) and I noticed a few people mentioning he'd signed for the goons, I couldn't see the tweet you're referring to.

It's a good signing if true, I just hope if he signs he can stay injury free.

Risking popular wrath we need to be careful with singo and more so with mulhearn and baldwinson.

While singo has had a good three months (yes that's all) he is still young and he needs to keep this up for the rest of this season before we even think about next.

As for the other two, great prospects but that is it. Singo has been a great prospect for three years now and is only just coming through.

Those who think only one new prop is needed and the kids will pick up the slack from two of the best props we've had in the sl era are delusional.

In my defence I said one quality prop and another back up, Maybe from championship!

Wasn't just aimed at you Rastrick, a few have said similar.

We have some good and potentially great kids coming through , just look at last night, we just need to be patient and support them. Prop is arguably the most difficult position for a youngster to make a sustained impact at. Just shows what total freaks the Burgess twins are.

If you take a prop from the Championship, you're in the same position Leeds are in with Yates. They are a project, who are going to take 6-12 months to develop or even longer. Look at Amor, when he first came up to SL looked like a fish out of water.

Besides, are there stand out props in the competition this year who aren't on loan or dual reg from a SL club?

Leeds need to sign two quality props.

Is rapira quality? I've not seen much of him so don't have an opinion past what I've read.

That wasn't aimed at Rapira, it was aimed at Lauaki who plays for Bulls now.

He was one of the best in the world a few years ago, and was a regular in the NZ side, but he's had a lot of injury problems since and he's not quite reached the level of performance in his earlier career. He's only 27 though hopefully he can get back to his best if he signs.

New Zealand international and World Cup winner.

With Rapira, it's the same as any other Southern Hemisphere guy coming over here.....is he buying into the experience or is he over here for a pay check. For all the praise of Cuthbertson's performances, the key thing is he's really taken to the club, city, country.