To be fair, he's not going to get in the St George team before Dugan, Marshall, or Widdop. That doesn't make him a bad player. He's as good a player as Burns or McDonnel.

I think it's a really good signing. Has played fullback, stand off and scrum half in the NRL, is very quick and has good offloading skills.
Just because he hasn't recently been getting a game in the NRL doesn't mean he's no good. There are many good players rolling round in reserve grade in Aus. I think he will have a field day with our forward pack as he's an excellent support player.

McDonnell wasn't playing first grade NRL when we brought him back over and he's done ok

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