Would it not be easier to simply ignore Vasty

Is already in the country , arrived Manchester this morning

Bazzo looks bigger than him.

Tiny Tauti.

We could have used some of the money we basically flushed down the bog on moving half way round the planet the likes of Jarred Hickey, Ryan Tongia, Isaac John, Frank Winterstein, Charlie Leano and now possibly Taulima Tauti midway through the season. How much is a return ticket on Quantas these days?

I can't believe there is a chance another decent youngster could be getting away from us and another import is coming in and people don't either see the correlation or indeed think its a problem. OK I accept that from time to time (particularly in the recent past) we had little option and had to go down the import route but we have no obvious excused this time and I for one am very disappointed in the club, coaching staff and board.

I hope he is match fit, not carrying any injuries, has no hidden baggage and a brilliant addition to the club.
However, I am disappointed we have again spent money on another overseas player mid season.
I would imagine our old revolving door has been returned for 2014/5 season as the need for change evolves .

Tommy, I don't think that anyone could disagree with your sentiments and the 1873 thing, was supposed to allow us to keep our best youngsters.
Anakin is an unusual case though.
When do you think that we should have given him a long contract ?
He looked a world beater in the junior final a few seasons ago but, if we are to believe the stuff that gets onto these forums, he only knuckled down in the last close season and made his debut at the start of the season.
We have to hope that he wants to give the club something back but, if it comes down to competing with the likes of Warrington, we are screwed, 1873 or no 1873.
At this point in time all we can offer is regular first team rugby and a possible top 8 finish.
We cant realistically offer the chance of silverware and we probably cant compete on his wage demands, let alone playing in a star-studded first team.
Wakefield have been in this position for all of the years that I have followed them and right now, apart from the occasional highlight, we are as competitive in the top flight as we have been in our recent history. Yes, we are moving forward, slowly, but, the key thing is to keep on developing youngsters who are both, good enough and want to play for Wakefield.

I wonder if there has been some exaggeration about the 6 foot 3 inches and 17 stone stat? Either way lets welcome him to Wakefield and we hope he makes a big difference by playing and scoring a couple of tries on Saturday to win it against Cas.

He is standing like Richard the 3rd. and he is in a car park?

The specifics of the deals for Annakin and TT are secondary to the wider point in my view. As I said, it's probably too late now to get the money together for Annakin but if we hadn't flushed Christ knows how many £10k's (if not £100k's) down the pan on the aforementioned imports then I dare say offering the right money would not be an issue.

It's not my position to decide at when to give Annakin a contract - we have people earning their living working for the club employed to make decisions. These people know the players professionally and personally and spend 8 hours a day (or whatever) in their company, we are reliant on 80 mins a week for those who go to away games - or more realistically for the vast majority 80 mins and radio commentary or trade press report - to form opinions, often biased ones as many get entrenched in their position or are too one eyed to be objective.

We are yet again wasting cash, and the cycle will no doubt repeat itself in the next couple of years - a crop of promising youngsters will not progress and somebody has to take responsibility for this - and the board and coaching staff are completely culpable in my opinion. It's just too easy to blame Huddersfield, Warrington, Leeds or whoever for pinching our players - the harsh reality it's a dog eat dog business and in order to survive we need a culture change and simply have to convert more juniors because throwing money at imports time and again isn't sustainable.

Id be interested in reading your rationale behind that comment......

Very funny comment similar haircut to Richard 3rd as well.

The point I keep banging on about is , the quality in our own produced invincibles

The point I keep banging on about is , the quality in our own produced invincibles