Ah okay, when I went to their site I saw that both their names were on the same squad, you get my point though. It's at least a familiar face for him when he comes over here at a relatively young age.

Hi mate..: I’ve seen him play for Newtown several times last season… indeed I’ve been a member at shark park for several season over the my past 15 years in Australia (Trinity fan in exile so to speak) … I thought he made really good progress in 23 and was on a first grade trajectory… so of all players in NSW cup footy I would never have picked him as a target.
I do, however, take your point about aggression.. maybe that speaks to the one year contract?

Think there is a clever pattern emerging in the signings. 2 french men , couple of aussies from same club , 3 lads who played for Scotland.makes it easier to settle in my opinion . Might be wrong maybe just coincidence

I'd go further, we as a club are expert at the above. Going right back to Toppo, it's been our party piece. Now however we might even keep them, and that would be something.

Sorry to sound curt, but who are you? You're welcome to your opinion, but I know Spook and I'll take his word over yours all day long. I've also looked at the highlight video, and although we are all aware just how selective they are, his is still a good one. Finally Newtown are one of the most prestigious Second Grade teams in the sport, they don't sign mugs, jeez they had Josh Mansour playing for them last year, he'd still walk it in the lower end of SL, let alone the Championship. I hear these opinions year after year from Oz experts of which I'm not one, sometimes they are right, mainly they are wrong, I think I know which you are on this occasion. For a start you don't gain a 94% effective tackle score if you are lazy and lack aggression, come on.

Finally he was on the fringes at Cronulla, it's not just Spooks opinion, seems to have been the opinion of the people who run Cronulla. Shall we just see how he does before binning him.

Sounds like the people making the signings have been playing Fifa Ultimate Team and are going for 33/33 chemistry

Didn't share the immediate enthusiasm on the video as some of you brilliant coaches on here. I likened the clips to Atoni last season before Dave got here and gave him a kick up the rear. Obviously I'm more than happy to be proven a big wally.

I remember when we signed Big Dave and we had similar opinions about him then, things like, he's lazy and slow. if he was any good he wouldn't be in the French first division or wherever he was and we also had the NRL experts back then giving us their opinion of how crap he was compared to their kid. How wrong so many people were. What's more the bloke was a giant in the changing room, not always for the best but more often than not. A top bloke who gave everything for Trinity while he was here and more. If this kid just got a bit of Dave him in, I'll take that.

I'd take Fifita back in some sort off field capacity if he ever wanted to come back, not that he would given the choice, to be that link between players and coaches. He inspired a group of struggling players to perform way above what they had produced for the majority of the season to almost change what had been nailed on. Atoni was a revelation after Fifita's arrival, and he could be that arm around the young Antipodean forwards while they are thousands of miles from home.

Think I would have Powell picking the players he wants in ,than the Coach ? we had last year .We just brought in garbage in to the team last year, to ad to the garbage that he was picking for the first 15 matches

Lets keep this one about Caleb now.
If I've moved any individual posts over to the other thread I'll move them back.

Powell said in his latest video interview that Caleb Uale is currently 120kg which is about 19 stones…

Yes, hopefully he is more Fifita than Pauli Pauli

Sorry PT, thats last time I'll mention DF, I promise

I'm sure Pauli Pauli came back one year for pre-season well over 20 stone LOL. Big Dave was 120kg, as are players like the Burgess twins and a few of the other big men in the NRL and one or two in SL. It all depends on whether they can carry that weight, keep their foot speed, which he seems to have quite quick feet for his size, and still put in the minutes. If they can like Dave used to, you've got yourself a weapon. Saying that by the start of the season, I wouldn't be surprised if he's a bit closer to 115kg like their kid is.