Is there a link? Not found any highlights of either player.

Just search 2020 Nrl charity shield.

Wow that Mago looks like a bloody handful

I’m wary of signing a championship player I must admit but glad we’ve brought in some bigger bodies, especially in the pack.

The next priority has to be HB and there’s a few in the NRL looking for clubs and potential exit routes.

Watched mago play numerous times. Hard runner, good Defender and can put a hit on. Seems to always play from the bench for souths. Not sure whether he is seen as an impact player from the bench or whether he is naturally seen as behind in the pecking order (i think this with the likes of luke burgess in the team). I like what i see though and think he will be a real handfull over here.

Ellis i will be honest i dont watch many of the dragons games so can't really comment on him. I am going to go back and watch one with him in now and see how he goes (NRL 360 is well worth it btw,, especially if you share the cost out with someone because it is expensive by itself).

Miski, keeps getting called a championship player but i have to disagree. What i have seen of him this season is a player playing well above the level he is competing at. Only signing a 1 year contract was a statement of intention to where he wanted to be and see's himself also, confident. He has played fullback for london this season so nice to have that option with how injury prone we seem to be. He is a big guy (NRL esque winger size) and seems to have the speed to back it up too. Worth noting when on the wing he plays outside our very own hankinson and they seem to work well together, maybe tactical by the club? Hankinson gets a full year of gametime and gets to build up a partnership with our new winger / target signing?

Could work out well for us next season if we are going the hankinson route at centre. Would be a cheaper option as we already have him. I rate hankinson tbh i think he has the potential to be a SL centre just not given a proper shot at it. When he had a run of games a couple years ago he fed his winger well, tackles well and kicks well. Remeber at leeds he lined up opposite hurrell and kept him quiet all game. Now not saying he is the same quality as hurrell on the whole but he had a clear gameplan to execute of quick line speed and strong defence to keep him out the game and it worked, barely even noticed he played. His kicking is obviously a bonus to us aswell, he kicked 8/8 the other week and doesn't miss many.

Just seen miski on wigan TV. Looks a powerfull player! Built like a brick house!

I must agree with you about Miski and people saying that he's a championship player well he will be as he plays for a championship team,anyone who has played in the NRL is worth a crack what have we got to loose he's hardly going to be on marquee money

You cannot just swap and change people around like that.

Played most of his youth career so far at second row, then move him to centre because of these attributes, then move him back in a few years to second row. It doesn't work like that for 99% of players.

Couldn't agree more with this...particularly with centres - probably the most difficult place to play positionally, and very very good players with all the attributes to be a great centre have time-and-time-again failed to adapt to the position. It's as specialist as half back.

There's loads of examples of it working. I'd certainly consider him as a centre option unless he shows us he can no longer player there (he did see some time at centre in academy, no idea about before that).

Anyone seen anything on Ellis yet. I have heard he isn’t that good but NRL standard to SL he maybe able to prove himself

I remember seeing him and was impressed with his ability to play the link man. Good passing game for a “middle”. He’s not a prop or a 13 but the modern type of middle forward.

He’s much more suited to that role than with Harvard or Partington. Harvard is a Prop and Partington for me is a Prop trying to be a “middle” forward.

Ellis is by no means a super star but he will add size and that bit of mongrel the team lacks up top. He gets in the opposition faces and likes to disrupt

He was most recently linked with a move to Cas so when we announced him I was a little surprised but pleased.

He will go well in SL in my opinion.

Kade Evans was reported as possible move to SL with Cas interested, im not sure if Ellis was on their radar

Both Ellis and Mago are in their respective squads for the weekend.

Looking at South Sydney's social media, a lot of thier fans would have liked to have kept Mago. I'm taking that as a positive.

Mago played for Souths at the weekend and had decent minutes, looked solid.

As for KPP at centre, he may be quick 'for a forward', but is quick for an outside back? And, as noted, the defensive aspect of the position in particular is not easy.