Thank you for your in-depth and insightful contribution......

You should know all about Antipodeans coming over here and being flops,your club has signed most of them



Seriously though how do you know what his mindset is,are you Darren Brown in disguise.

I Can

Mr Serious gotcha.

The Watcher has been reluctant to post about Moimoi because he has a different opinion to almost all the contributors so far, however the more he thinks about this signing the more he feels his view is worthy of writing. We as a club have been down this road before signing very senior players who have had great careers, J Roper, D Fleary, R Paul, S McCurrie, R Goulding & V Mautautia to name but a few. None of whom did very well, in the Watchers eyes, we as a club are very blessed in the prop forward department are we not? If Leigh as a club have got a few quid to sign a marquee player why oh why have we not been out & signed a top level 6, 7,2 or 5? Surely that would have made more sense, get someone in where we are a bit short on top class talent. The Watcher does hope his reservations about signing MoiMoi are unfounded & that he does put 150/200 on the gate & is a roaring success but he wont be holding his breath.

Ah but some wish you would

Probably because one of the main problems the game faces is that top level half backs are in very short supply, with Ridyard, Brierley , Reynolds, McNally & Ward I'd say we're actually quite blessed with talent in halves.

Yes we do have a lot of forwards but that's a good thing, most likely to get injured, most in need of rotation, sure Rowley can never have too many.

Fuifui Moimoi is one of the biggest names in the world of rugby league, not sure what other available signing we could have made that'd be getting headlines on both sides of the world.

The Maurice feels the watcher is right to have a point of view, even if it is blinkered and does not see out of the box
The Maurice noted the examples of previous flops and chuckled at the comparisons, the Maurice knows nothing in life is guaranteed but the benefits off field and within the squad of having the MoiMoi in the ranks are huge and far bigger than any of the players dragged up for comparison
The Maurice feels sad that some peoples lives are half empty and wishes them a speedy recovery

well said 'The Maurice' !!!

The Maurice feels sad that some peoples lives are half empty and wishes them a speedy recovery'"

The fevfan76 is wondering what all these off field benefits are. Does the Maurice really believe the fans will flock to see this curly haired prop. The Fevfan76 feels that if I was a Leigh fan who had stopped watching a few years ago for whatever reason, then the success of the team last season would have brought me back or at least rekindled my interest. The fevfan76 believes that If winning every week and looking like getting in SL isn't gonna bring fans in then nowt will. Not even MoiMoi.

The (I cant be d any more). A few years ago when we got dumped for SL and had all the talk about mergers. Lots of fev fans stopped watching a vowed never to come again. I know people who still wont, but many have come back due to our recent success. Its success that will bring fans back, watching a winning team or gaining promotion to SL. Thats something I think you would achieve without MoiMoi.