look as if he has come over and lost any acceleration he used to have.

Did he have any in the first place?

Yeah he was actually pretty quick for his size. I remember him steam rolling on to it for panthers and rooster and it was literally like watching skittles and a bowling ball. He needs to forget about trying to put good stints in and just go for it because that what he is effective at.

I'm surprised the roosters let him go and the panthers granted him a early release then. Also, with the amount of money they throwing about in the NRL and no team took him?

I watched him last year and was greatly impressed. He played well in the Samoa v NZ game in the World Cup which I went but most of his runs came off kick off returns.

Fingers crossed Beaumont can
A. Get fit as soon as possible.
B. Be the sort of grafting prop we need.

If you look at Wigan they have strong running back rows which take some pressure off the props. Therefore i wouldn't bother playing some players at second row imo e.g. Wilkin and Flanagan. We need Manu, Soliola, Savelio and Greenwood as our back rowers.

As for props, Amor, Walmsley, Masoe and then hopefully Beaumont are good enough to do the job imo. Until then i think Richards is good enough to do a job but we shouldn't overuse him. Ideally, Clough is pretty much what we need - can we get him back?

Then for hooker, we need to spell Roby obviously. Not sure who with, it seemed to me Tilley was playing dummy half against Widnes? Didn't see the game so can't comment. If Flanagan has played there before then could try him as I don't see his use in second row.

Lock imo, should be a well rounded forward. Wilkin is too lightweight, as is Flash, players like Charnock are too playmaker esque and i am not a fan of playing an extra prop there, especially when that is already an issue. So i think the answer is Jones and he has really proved himself in the last few weeks.

That leaves the pack looking something like

Amor
Roby
Walmsley
Manu
Soliola
Jones

Flanagan/Tilley/Fozard
Beaumont/Richards/Laffranchi/Masoe (2 of)
Savelio/Greenwood

I think he had a lot of personal problems at the Rooster,poor trainer, they change the culture and to make room for SBW. He was immense at points last season for panthers so il be honest not sure why they let him go but a lot of fans wanted him to sign for their club last year and was surprised at him coming to super league. He put in a lot of performances on par with the samoa one last year for the panthers.

He needs the mohawk back!!

also comparing his body shape this season he is massively out of shape, used to have a massive set of shoulders and arms


can't add the picture but he looks like he has ball shape body this year.

My thoughts are similar to. We can argue over the type of lock player. But we have to many big name, low impact players in the pack currently.

This!
He's like BA from the A-team

You mean like when BA has had his knock out jab to get on the plane?

Pete are you on your period? you seem very depressed lately, cheer up!

Not depressed at all. I expected it. I predicted 3 losses on the bounce.

The likes of Perry got bagged off big time on here and this big fat waste of space is no better.

Masoe has 1 big advantage over perry already ... He's actually made it out onto the field!

That's great then. We do just fine then.