Reminds me a bit of this fella...

rlhttps://youtu.be/-ww5AzZW-6orl

(The video is worth a watch just to wonder if it's the same player we signed all those moons ago).

Tupou was great at the start, but he never properly recovered from an injury he sustained.

I didn't mind Tupou, but when he did his knee in he was never the same, didn't his knee go wrong during rehab and needed re-constructing again?

It was right again after he did it in.

Same goes for Ben Harris. You know, there's a few players who've come to Bradford and got career ending injuries. Which is a shame really.

I think when Tame actually played, his try scoring record wasn't bad at all. I'm completely disregarding that youtube video though - he was playing in a side with Lockyer and was outside Justin Hodges. Fair enough he had to barge his way over the line a few times but every single one of those tries were made for him by the brilliance of his team-mates.

Ben Harris was a superb player. Wasn't blessed with a great deal of pace but he was still an attacking threat, and his defence was outstanding. It was Scott Naylor-esque!

Tame Tupou was badly let down by the defenders inside him.

Wouldn't say Ben Harris was a superb player, he was solid and a good defender playing in a very good team. No pace what so-ever.

Ben Harris was a good solid player. When he went back to Aus (for personal NOT injury reasons ) he resurfaced immediately in Queensland and held down an NRL starting spot in the back row .

My recollection is that he played in the NRL after he left us, rather than going back injured. He was a cracking player imo, superb defence and pretty good with ball in hand. I doubt anyone would say no to someone of his ability.

You can have the most amazing qualities of any human that ever lived as a RL player, but if you are short of pace, there will be many who will never notice them.

In our position we can't sign top internationals. What we do need are good, solid and reliable players who can come in and do exactly what the coach asks of them. And i do believe there are hundreds of players out there playing in so called second grade that are just waiting to be given a chance. And lets be honnest, our league isn't the NRL. A decent player from down under could turn out to be very good here. That doesn't mean this lad will do that. We will have to wait and see and if he does turn out well we will need to extend his stay before others start sniffing round. Shontane and Les were relatively unknown so who knows? It's a gamble but that is all we can afford at this moment.

Shontayne maybe, but I wouldn't say Les was relatively unknown when we signed him.

To be fair, back in those early days Les was far better known because of the comparison in size with Jonah Lomu, than he was for his own ability and wasn't [ithat[/i well regarded in the Aussie competition. He'd scored a few tries but was [according to the Aussie fans] a 'liability under the high ball' and generally regarded as a poor defender. I think it's fair to say the Bulls improved that side of his game no end and certainly put him into the international frame as a genuine quality player.

We did sign a few genuine world class players during our glory years, Henry Paul, Joe Vagana and Brad Mackay spring to mind. More recently Steve Menzies was pretty much as good as any second rower around when he signed for us, shame we didn’t have a better side around him.

and an even bigger shame we let him go..