Quote vint="vint"Peter Souto'"
Souto - between periods of going AWOL - actually turned in one or two good performances for Saints. IIRC, he played well in the JPS final victory over Leeds.
A lot of the names listed in this thread, whilst failures in the long run, did show at least something useful at rare times.
At the other end there are names like Ricky Cowan (as well as the infamous Mark Bourneville) who arrived with no objectively-defined reputation to speak of and thus barely scrape into the "smallest flop" category.
I vividly remember Mike McClennan claiming Cowan was a [i"big guy with great hands, good foot speed, tremendous physique and outstanding fitness"[/i. With such an impressive summation you could be forgiven for thinking we were signing the new Mal Meninga.
After his first game my guess was he must have been an old drinking buddy of McClennan's from the dockyards back in NZ who had fallen on hard times and was calling in a favour.
