I too think he had not settled.
I'll tell you why.
I followed Big Roy on twitter from him arriving here.
He never once spoke anything other than all things Samoa and wanting to catch up with his Samoan pals.

Except for his latest tweet he thanks a lady for her kind remark and a big game.

It points to him not being happy but maybe that last text hints of some small adjustment?
And perhaps I'm just clutching at straws.

I get so wound up watching Asotasi trying to not play the game that he is paid handsomely to play!
Homesickness is a terrible excuse for a former New Zealand international captain.

Hill T22 MT6 C17 AG8m

Asotasi T17 MT0 C9 AG8m

England T14 MT4 C15 AG5.47m

T: Tackles MT: Missed tackles C: Carries AG: Average gain

I think looking at those you could easily assume Asotasi is a good player with a poor work ethic and would be a great player for us if he would make more tackles and carry the ball more.

(Btw on the overall stats both Monaghan brothers had storming games as did Russell and Ratchford.)

At last you have seen the light Yed; I knew you would get there eventually

The stats just reinforce for me that Asotasi is consistent at doing the basics, without doing anything spectacular, and whilst he isn't as poor as some suggest, he isn't "tearing it up" either.

thing is though, he's not on 'basics' wages. He's there to be the cornerstone of the pack, the aforementioned hit on soliola, i thought at that point 'yes, thats the hit he needs to do to starting getting fans onside' Cos thats what he needs to do, clean someone out like an MF-er.

Is he doing the intangibles though, is he talking to his fellow forwards and motivating them, leading them? i can't see it, maybe he is.

Maybe he needs a substitute run at swinton, i dont know.


Sigh, its sad, cos i do want to like the fella, i really do, i'm not expecting him to be all fui fui moi moi off the bat, but i'd like him to smash a few players.

I recall Trent Waterhouse being critised (on here) as achingly average compared to Louis Anderson, but he seems to have turned it around now.

People wanted him swapped with Danny Kirmond. Yes, that's right, Danny Kirmond

Although I agree that Asotasi has been rather disappointing, in the game against Bradford he ran in the ball so hard that the Bradford player tackling him was stumbling and all but KO'd for the rest of the set.

I believe he has the strength and skill but it's a lack of effort on his part. Maybe homesickness, maybe arrogance.

Either way he needs to turn it around and improve or get booted out. I bet he's taking a large portion of the overseas quota and so far he isn't earning it.

In regards to the Magic game, I think we played well. Our covering defence was much better and Bridge, Russell and Ratchford played brilliantly.

Saints turned up expecting an easy win, their fans didn't even make a sound all day until their "comeback", and we stunned them.

Bring on the Whino's in 2 weeks.

But Waterhouse was a divisive player, some got it and some didn't. Asotasi is not really divisive, we have some apologists and people who are hoping through blind faith that he will become good.
People are saying "give him time" and "remember Matt King". No one is saying he's good just some think he'll get there eventually.

i dont think house was divisive, i think the way he was presented left people who didn't watch the nrl expecting Solomona-esque cray cray offloads, and they didn't get that, they got a workhorse with good offloading ability and even better offload IQ.