I think this is great news, he has probably been our best player since he has come in and doesn't seem to have a weakness in his game. I admit that this is only against Champioship opposition but I think he can easily step up to Super League if we get there. He reminds me quite a bit of Jai Whitbread.

Yep.
Big fan of Jai, but I think that Ky is better.

Agree, Jai was anonymous most of this first half season then came good back end for a string of games.


Season after injured a lot and didn’t break many pots.

Whitbread is a good forward but Rodwell looks early signs a different class (albeit against Championship opposition but that’s unavoidable).

I'm a big fan of Whitbread but he's a very different player to Rodwell.

Agreed Rodwell is a middle and Whitbread is more a prop.

I think Whitbread has kicked on since he left us and added some impact to his game maybe being in a better environment at KR than he was at Trinity.

I’m expecting a lot of the new lads to kick on next year in SL as they are in the main new to a full time environment coming to the club from part time. They will have had a year to develop in that full time environment and it is one that is superior to what we had under Carters time at the club.

Never mind Whitbread, how good has Tangianoa been at KR, the bloke has been devastating in a number of games.

He has managed to go injury free though unlike with us last season

My opinion is he is a liability in defence and drops too much ball I never really rated him

I think they both have benefitted from the fact that the current KR squad is somewhat of an upgrade on what they had last season.

Yes I agree, last time I saw him play he made three handling errors and all pretty basic.

I won't say I don't rate him. He's just a luxury player. His ball running is excellent and his defence is very strong if they run at him.
He isn't good positionally or with his ball handling.

Rovers can carry him for his positives. We can't.

He's devastating with ball in hand.

When he keeps hold of it he is too inconsistent

No less than he was when he played second row for us before Chester screwed that up.

In fact watching him for KR he played better for us when he first came over getting MOTM every week. He’s just rediscovering that now.

All KR have done is simply play him in his best and natural position. Something most Trinity fans were calling for and couldn’t fathom why. Who’s have thought it.

Yes, that certainly didn't help his cause but even when he was playing in the SR you never knew which Tanginoa you were going to get on the day, I remember Poaching dropping him to the reserves for. Few weeks after a few bad performances.

Someone summed it up perfectly above I thought, he's a luxury player, if your team is defensively good enough to back up his handling errors, then on a good day he's fantastic to have In your team but I think there is reason you don't see the likes of Wigan take players like this and if/when they do on the very odd occasion, you usually see a very different player to the oncw they have bedded in.

Clearly the reason he was playing prop is that his defensive flaws are not exposed there.
Even at Rovers you can see teams scoring tries down his side when he doesn't slide with his centre and halfback.