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| It must be difficult to be a half in this team, zero attacking structure and seemingly little game plan with the exception of an offload game and quick play the balls. (Oh, and the inside drop off to BMM).
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| Quote: morrisseyisawire "Played today in the reserves, so assuming he did a reasonable stint he can't be far off.
Given the size of the Hull team, I'd be tempted to pitch him in and see what he's got about him.'"
Agree. Let's hope it's on the back of a decent run out with the reserves
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| According to Wires twitter, Latu and Kibula we’re bench props for the reserves today.
Doro and Louis Johnson started.
Latu got a try
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| Quote: shinymcshine "It's not unreasonable to give Widdop the same concession / settling in period for any overseas player coming to the UK is it (given how long he's played/lived in Australia)?'"
It amazes me the notion of an overseas player having a settling in period as opposed to an English signing from another sl club. Australian teams come as strangers to our shores & regularly take our teams to the cleaners without a settling in period.
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| Quote: The Railwayman "Anyway back to the topic ......
Is Ade Gardner working one-to-one with Latu to address his fitness issue whatever that might be. We can 't afford somebody just coasting around. Get him fit or get him out. If it is some injury recovery issue then just say so.'"
Is Ade working towards a skinny Latu ?
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| Quote: ninearches "It amazes me the notion of an overseas player having a settling in period as opposed to an English signing from another sl club. Australian teams come as strangers to our shores & regularly take our teams to the cleaners without a settling in period.'"
It's not really the same.
Widdop could have come over with his St George Illawarra pals and taken Wire to the cleaners.
Having to adapt to a new team, new coaching staff and different way of life is a harder challenge.
However....you see some players settle in very quickly.
Sid Domic, Darren Burns, Nat Wood (instant hit at Wakefield for the half season before he joined us).
Chris Hicks joined at the same time as Michael Monaghan and Matt King, and he settled in straight away while the other two took a season and a half to get going.
Also despite the criticism he's getting now, Blake Austin didn't take long to settle in. He was the early front runner for Man of Steel last year.
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| Is he any good? I know he’s not played much in the last few years but has anyone got any real insight? We might be expecting a lot more than we are going to get.
Hope not, but signs aren’t good
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| Quote: Big Ask "Is he any good? I know he’s not played much in the last few years but has anyone got any real insight? We might be expecting a lot more than we are going to get.
Hope not, but signs aren’t good'"
Well that takes us back to the competence of the Recruitment Team whoever they / he may be
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| Quote: ninearches "Is Ade working towards a skinny Latu ?'"
Bum Bum .... nice one
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| Quote: Big Ask "Is he any good? I know he’s not played much in the last few years but has anyone got any real insight? We might be expecting a lot more than we are going to get.
Hope not, but signs aren’t good'"
Considering he reached the end of January without finding himself a club, either here or in Australia, then I'd confidently say he isn't going to be an improvement on what we already have, or what we have recently released?
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| Quote: Dita's Slot Meter "Quote: Dita's Slot Meter "Is he any good? I know he’s not played much in the last few years but has anyone got any real insight? We might be expecting a lot more than we are going to get.
Hope not, but signs aren’t good'"
Considering he reached the end of January without finding himself a club, either here or in Australia, then I'd confidently say he isn't going to be an improvement on what we already have, or what we have recently released?'"
Our scouting & recruitment policy must be the envy of the sporting world.
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| Quote: ninearches "Our scouting & recruitment policy must be the envy of the sporting world.'"
Matty Ashton...
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| I have watched him play in his 2 matches for Warrington Reserves.
Eribe Doro and Sammy Kibula had more grunt than him, with their drives forward.
Admittedly Latu is supposed not to be fully fit yet, but how long do we have to wait?
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| Quote: Boss Hog "Eribe Doro and Sammy Kibula had more grunt than him, with their drives forward.'"
I had (these things are relative) high hopes for Kibula. Big lad, new start, new club. I assume either he's confirming why Wigan released him or he's another signing Price didn't sanction and has got a strop over?
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| Latu had another year to run with Gold coast and they let him go to ease the salary cap. Was impressive when he first appeared on the scene then signed with Gold coast and has done absolutely nothing for them. Had one game for Tonga and one game for NRL all stars and that's it. As far as i've seen from him and heard from him he's just a reserve grade prop at best, he's been over here 6-7 weeks with 2 games for the reserves and a game for Widnes so if his fitness is still 5hit that's shocking. Unless he's suddenly going to turn up full force every game i'm expecting him to be on par as Kibula.
Anybody got any idea what kind of wage he's picking up from us?
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