Because his card is marked and he can never ever do any right.

We have just resigned him for a year to save everyone else the indignity of having to employ him clearly.

cos hes garbage

Thats what I thought.

That's a bit drastic isn't it just to get Wigan born players

Clueless man.

Interesting comments, only started following the NRL last year and can't say I know too much about him. However his rumoured signings wasn't particularly welcomed by a lot of Bulls fans. I think the main reason being that Dave Halley has been a stand out performer for us at FB this year. Whether he can make the same impact on the wing is possibly doubtful.

Have you seen Kearney play at 6, or do you feel he has the skills necessary to play there for the Bulls? Seems to be a fair bit of debate on the NRL forums about which is his better position.

Phelps isnt a patch on Kearney

Fullback or wing only he is never a 6 in a month of Sundays.

Never seen Kearney play so I can't comment on him.
Phelps, on the other hand, has only been playing fullback since returning from injury and has improved vastly in those games. He has pace, can pass, good support play and gives 100% commitment in every game.
He will continue to improve with coaching from Kris Rads next year and as such is a very good signing.
So I very happy with the fullback we have at the moment.

According to IL we will only use quota spots for class overseas players. Do any of our recent overseas signings made under IL fall into this category including Phelps? Not in my opinion though Carmont comes close.

I don't know much about Kearney either but if Jonh is right it seems he would fit the bill of the type of player IL wants to fill the quota spots compared to Phelps.

Dave

The trouble is the grass is always greener on the other side until you get there.
How many big name overseas signings have we made over the last five or so years only to find out that the players who made way for them (usually young british) were just as good if not better.
This in my opinion is the case with Phelps although an overseas player. Good player, young and improving. Big mistake to let him go in favour of another gamble.

The problem is we have not signed any big name overseas players in the last five or so years except one, Barrett, who really was class.



That depends if you consider signing really class players as a gamble.

Phelps contract was up so if Jonh is correct and Kearney is a class act not yet another average NRL player, then being afraid to replace an out of contract player with one regarded as class means we will never sign another overseas player again. Or any class player for that matter because we will be afraid if they move here they won't live up to their reputation.

It's all about whether or not someone like Kearney falls into the average to good category which all our current overseas players do IMO or if they really are the class act Jonh seems to think Kearney is.

If they are just average NRL pros then I would agree. Why bother? In fact it is a pity that rule wasn't applied to several players already.

If they are class though, then that is different.

Dave