Quote: sergeant pepper "Spot on.
Hull KR seem to find a decent new prop every year (Clinton, Vella, Paea, Wayman) Guys at London can find a Vea, Salford Tasi and the excellent additions Leeds made.
Sometimes there's no substitute for recruiting a mid level/solid NRL prop who has a bit of hunger and natural size.'"
Whilst I do agree with your point about Hull KR, we did sign Lima and Pettybourne, which kind of argues the other way. Spending big (fee and wages) on a superstar like Stuart Fielden didn't work too well either (though his effort couldn't be faulted). So it's a tricky one.
I felt at the time that Pettybourne was getting a shirt just because he was an NRL player, when in fact he was poor and not worth his place. He seems to have won another contract at Gold Coast so I'm not sure about NRL journeymen/mid-level props.
We'll see how the likes of Tasi and Dodds go this year at Saints and Wire but they were both burned by Masoe and Asotasi whereas we have maintained some consistency in our squad.