www.redvee.net/forums/showthread ... post502197 Anyone here seen the paper ? Personally I'd be very glad to see the back of him but if you kept him along way from your halfback spots you could do alot worse at fullback

www.redvee.net/forums/showthread ... post502197 Anyone here seen the paper ? Personally I'd be very glad to see the back of him but if you kept him along way from your halfback spots you could do alot worse at fullback

Is he available for Sunday and can he play prop?

well if you look on youtube there is a cracking video of him putting Civoniceva on his ass

As for being available... I guess so but we'd need someone to carry the water on in his place.... then again we already have Howarth

a signing based on previous reputation if ever there was one

I think this comment belongs in the Morley Signed thread.

Hohaia, www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/13047007 can't understand why saints fans are falling over themselves extolling the virtues of their ' marquee signing ' and with still a year to run on his contract . Almost seems like they want rid ...

Hohaia, www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/13047007 can't understand why saints fans are falling over themselves extolling the virtues of their ' marquee signing ' and with still a year to run on his contract . Almost seems like they want rid ...

As a fullback, I could live with this.

My big worry is that we're freeing up a big chunk of salary cap for a club that's planning a late counter bid for Chase. Hardly a great bit of strategic thinking if true.

Stuart howarth is being picked over him. He cannot get into our team atm, and we aren't in great shape.

Probably do a job at FB for you. Anywhere else he's proved to be pretty useless in his saints career.

You're going to have a few ex-saints players!

I doubt we'll be in for Chase.

If you're theory is right, re: the counter bid, then you've also made room on our quota list.

Funny thing with Hohaia, aside from his NRL rookie of the year season, he was a terrible halfback Down Under.

However, it's also pretty well known that he was a great fullback.

I'm surprised nobody at St Helens was aware of this before signing him.

As for the Chase thing, let's wait and see. But I do hope Salford haven't shot themselves in the foot here by inadvertently assisting a rival suitor.

I think he'd be a good signing, excellent full back with the attacking flair we all like to watch, can cover in the halves and @ hooker.

Think the Doc will be announcing people like this next Friday (ish) a marked step up for who we've signed in previous years and someone who can be a fixture for longer than the likes of Meli, Morley and Puletua.

Was he a great fullback though? He had a brilliant World Cup in 2008 that led to a load of people talking him up and St Helens eventually signing him. I always thought he was a bit overrated, even when watching him in the NRL.

He wouldn't be a great long-term solution, but could do a job at fb for us over the next season. Feel he was always a little overrated tbh.

I've been happy with the 3 oldies we've signed already, but to add another one I think will be a mistake. Not too sure Lance Hohaia is the sort of player we should be looking at, we need to look at someone with a bit of pace and with age on their side as at this rate we'll have the oldest, slowest team ever!!!!

My biggest worry is still the fact that we are potentially aiding Saints' bid to gazump us in the Chase signing saga. We ignore this threat at our peril.