Seems a really poor signing to me. Although I've never seen him play, or if I have I've never noticed him, I'll bet no one on here has either. For a guy who is 27 in January that probably says all we need to know about his ability levels. I've been trying to find out about him since his name was mentioned and I've not found a thing. Nowhere can I find a description of his style, his pace, his strength, his best positions. Nowhere is there any call for him to be playing first grade and in fact about the only mention of him is on one of the Warriors forums where they include him in a list of players to be cut in their end of season clear out of the reserve grade/fringes.

I appreciate you can't sign a superstar for every position, but until someone clarifies the point of this signing I'm struggling. Backup centre/backrow is a job an academy player could do is it not? Is that role really worth the use of a quota spot? He also won't be coming half way round the world for pittance either.

When you look at our recent signings, Dawson, Haggerty, Tasi, SMD, Peyroux it's not inspiring. We're not the best side in SL, we weren't last season. There were positions we needed to improve and we've not improved the squad anywhere in the 17 so far. We're a mess at 1, weaker at prop and Jones for Peyroux is an unknown, but he's not likely to be Kevin Iro given the lack of progress he's made in the NRL.

My paranoia about McManus doing it on the cheap again because we won the GF last season is bursting through the mercury now.

You want an example of us lacking ambition? Keiron Cunningham has gone on about signing a winger with size and a physical presence for two years now. It's been talked about on here so much. The perfect player is available in Tom Lineham. We don't go near him, Warrington sign him. We'll no doubt be the only top 4 team to not use the marquee allowance (If we do, we'll use it to free a small portion of Roby's salary rather than signing a player).

The other clubs are signing big names, players that will make a difference. We're not.

I don't think Shane Cooper played a single game in the ARL.

Same goes for many successful Kiwis during the eighties and early nineties.

3 I believe, but they will have also had training camps etc where a coach will be able to see things from a player just as easily in a game. In all honesty, I havent seen enough of the guy to comment whether he will be good or not for us. My point is that a lot of big name, international "stars" have come over and been terrible so to judge a guy before he has pulled our shirt on and played is a bit harsh imo

Hopefully it will be the case that, since h's not an established star, he wont take anything for granted and give 100% whilst at the same time, the fact he's got NRL experience may buoy his confidence enough to increase his performance.

Fingers crossed. He does seem like the Samoan Matty Dawson.

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I wouldn't read too much into that article. The Warriors stink as a club in terms of attitude. They had a chance to break into the upper echelons when Daniel Anderson was there, but the club buckled to player power and have suffered ever since. The appointment of a rookie in McFadden has been a predictable disaster. The Warriors players helped get rid of Matt Elliott, then performed (a bit) for McFadden, who then got the gig. Since then the players have again cruised through two seasons.

The best hope for the Warriors is to get a genuinely experienced coach in and have the club back him, including dumping some of the players that seem to think its all about showboating and not about winning.