Quote: Saddened! "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.'"
Fair points but no point crying about it. Atelea Vea made about 20 appearances in his whole NRL career yet was a massive hit with London and impressed with us up untill injury. I've done a bit of digging about Peyroux and it seems the lads been a little unlucky, constantly 18th man for NZ Warriors but playes extremly well for the Warriors second team. Always gets picked for Samoa be it Centre or Second row and scored the match winning try vs Tonga in this years test (great try too).
Everybody would love big name signings but sometimes its lads like this (who's career is virtually over if he fails at Saints) who perform wonders. Save this message but i bet my only pound that we get more out of Peyroux next year than Hull FC get with Pritchard. I can smell it a mile off.
Saints have there hands tied a little bit because on paper we have the best half back pairing in the league, best hooker and best Prop. So with that comes a huge amount of Salary cap, add Lomax in there too who signed a nice fat contract then theres not much left to play with.
