Would be pretty difficult to get a 27-year-old to agree to a deal balanced so much in the club's favour. It is not like a Tim Smith situation where there is an overriding issue of bad professionalism. He seems to have underperformed at Hull, but as has been said there are any number of reasons why this might have been, substandard fitness and technical coaching being one of them.

Since he's been back his attack has been good but he's also looked unfit and a liability in defence. He may well get back to his best but I wouldn't assume it until I've seen pre season indications of it. Let's not get too carried away with a hat trick against Wakefield, it takes a long time to get over two years out of the game, then walking back into a very different team. Lauaki may well start the season as the better option on the bench.

Spot on for me. I'm not averse to backing our Head Coach and signing him, but a three-year deal with an option for a fourth for a player by the clubs own admission needs work seems ludicrous.

His salary will not be much, but a one year deal would have been the much wiser move. And as you say, if Lauaki wasn't happy with that - don't sign him.

Wasnt best pleased about this rumour when I first heard it, but on reflection he has potential, will want to impress here and I have no doubt that if he underperforms Wane will not hesitate to bring someone from the under 20s in. He will be in competition with Liam Farrell, Harrison Hansen, Gareth Hock, Chris Tuson and Jack Hughes all will be chomping at the bit to nail down a first team spot.

I dont think that you are in much of a position to judge are you?

Then don't sign him.
If Lauaki had refused a one year deal to join one of the premier clubs in world rugby then he is absolutely mad.

And if he demanded a three year deal and Wigan caved then we are also - mad.

Last season I felt we were short sighted in not giving debuts to Mellor, Powell or Logan. A steep learning curve is on the way for one of them this season as surely one or more of them will have to be called upon. I just hope the limited national league and reserve experience they have had has prepared them for some super league game time.

I'm also wondering if we simply haven't signed a centre or a half. Otherwise why not announce the signing at the same time as this one? Surely we aren't planning on playing Roberts at 1, Goulding at 3 and Sam at 6 all season when Roberts has been in such terrible form and Goulding has only really excelled on the wing?

Talk about selective reading. On just about every other statistic Coley is better than Lauaki and by some distance. Coley averaged more meters, more carries and is better in just about every stat bar tackle busts. In particular Coley made 521 tackles in 22 games v 310 in 26 for Lauaki. Coley also made 87 marker tackles compared to 42 for Lauaki.

No wonder the Hull fans don't rate his defence.

Everyone thinkes hes crap so he has got nothing to lose for a kick off. Theres no way he can be worse than O Carroll over the last few years because he has hardly been fit so at worst its a slight improvement actually having another option in the pack.

FWIW im not inspired by this signing but i can see why weve got him. He aint gonna be on mega money either.

Not sure about this one tbh. Theres no doubt he has got potential but I think it will be difficult for wane to bring it out. Whenever i've watched him in the past i always thought he was a bit of a dirty player tbh and not someone i would have imagined us signing. I really hope he proves me wrong but im a bit dissapointed that we've let go of such a hard working young player in o'carroll to bring this guy in.

Can't say I'm excited by it but he's a Wigan player now so I'll back him.

Hopefully a good pre season under bitcon will have us all eating our words next year and this lad will become a favourite. He did have a very good start to his Hull career so hopefully he's found some hunger.