Give the lad a bloody chance! He hasn't even landed yet!
I trust Saints have done some homework on him and he must be the right man at the right price.

How sure are we that this is actually happening? He's playing for Wentworthville Magpies today according to their official Twitter account.

Would he really be doing that it if he had a plane to catch tomorrow to join us as is rumoured?

Looks like another one has bitten the dust...

From the Parra Eels forum talking on the NSW Cup
"Adam Quinlan sustaining what looked like serious injuries"

Wtf is going on? We can't have been signing him or he wouldn't have been playing today?

What is happening with English RL ?

God knows! I got lambasted on here for suggesting they should give one of their young players a chance.

What's your opinion on Quinlan btw. I know you'll have seen much more of him than anyone on here.

I'm not sure why I'm bothering. If you don't understand that even the 19s fullback Ricky Bailey has a groin tear (though is due back soonish) - and he was shown not to be ready when he made his debut earlier in the year (so by extension means there aren't any kids ready for the fullback role) then why are you even postings?

That's before even getting to the importance of the fullback role to attacking structure. For the same reason you wouldn't just throw a kid into the halfback roles.

I used to think others were unduly harsh on you for posting in here, however recently you've become very laborious.

I didn't know that Bailey was injured, but to say that that he isn't ready after half a game, and played out of position on the wing, IIRC is a bit harsh imo.

The fact he was substituted shows just how out of his depth he was. He, nor anyone below him are ready, I'm not sure why that's so unreasonable, especially given of the 5 fullbacks we've lost this year, we've produced 3 ourselves, and either Swift or Percival will be fullback today meaning yet another we've produced.

A better question would be (as if the same situation presented itself at wigan or leeds) how come there isn't similar depth at other clubs in the league so we could look domestically rather than having to go international for a short term fix

That is a very good point, and maybe what "The Eclipse" was alluding to. Leeds have two very good young fullbacks in Ash Golding (out injured) and Nick Rawsthrone who was excellent yesterday v Wigan. Wigan have Hampshire and Tierney, with the option of also using Burgess there or Gabe Fell. Huddersfield have Jarred Simson (who I asked Wigan to have a look at four yeas ago). That's off the top of my head so there are probably a few about, whether the clubs want to release them is another matter.

We might have a much much bigger population than Australia, but unfortunately the catchment area for picking up young players with potential is very small and restricted to the M62 corridor and Cumbria apart from the odd player here and there who emerge from daarn saarrf, the North East, Wales etc