He could be an asset with the right coach. His ship has obviously sailed here, can't see him doing much unless he gets off the booze and fags.

With the reduction in interchanges no team can afford a players who is out if breath after ten minutes.

The thing is with paili with me he is a big lad maybe too big, Could do to lose weigh asap and become a type of player of what Ali Lauitiiti was a great player for leeds and us it comes down to self discipline if they want it they have to work at it but it looks like the ship has sailed for him now shame he could have been such a potent player for us.

He will go to Salford and probably score 10 to 15 tries next season. very good battering ram. All the est from me.

It's a pity that some on here want to get on his case.
If he'd have been used in the right manner, then posters may have thought differently about him.

Nah. You can't blame this one on Chester. Apart from thinking he was worth a punt in the first place.

Well you have to consider what opportunities he's had to "use him in the right manner"

Something is definitely not 100% with Pauli and it ain't from lacking potential.

Don’t forget this is the same person who thought Hampshire would be better at Huddersfield.

He's the same person who decided if he didn't want to play for us on the contract that he was offered then he might be better getting someone in who does.
You can spin it how you like but Pauli is getting exactly the results his effort deserved.
He would have been a liability today. Tanginoa, Kirmond and Batch were all over the place.

Yup i don’t get the Chester using him properly stuff. Truth is that last year PP was fine, not brilliant but very useful. This year he arrived back physical mess and for reasons well known not mentally right either.

However CC is a coach not a social worker and ditto Clawson who may or may not be a great conditioner but still require the player to offer some input!

This year PP has had loads of opportunity and refused to compete, that is no ones fault but his, there has to be some level of personal responsibility.

PP just doesn’t fit, it happens, we move on. He may go on to be a Salford legend though I seriously doubt that but his time with the Trin is done. Sad because it could have been great but there are others out there let’s start looking.

100 percent agree with this , he is a professional sportsman and that means being in shape. Yesterday we saw a team fighting for their livelihoods giving it all they had _ never saw this from Pauli not once.

As regards using him correctly Chester tried - used him as a prop, used him playing long minutes out wide, used him in short bursts. Basically he got worse not better.

Your right I don’t know what he earns or what’s been said - but I do know that rather than losing weight over course of season he put it on , that he was boosing in town.

If you want to see what it means putting on the red white and blue - have a look at big dave s twitter feed

Exactly this re Pauli

Chester has tried using him in every way possible and I bet Pauli has being given every chance too

Looked at Dave’s twitter feed absolutely brilliant scenes
Note that Pauli isn’t there too

The idea of using PP as a second row was just silly. The only way to use PP is how Salford used him, impact prop of the bench, defending in the middle not having to make defensive reads and one on one tackles. In attack they just had him following Hastings. Last season Hampshire put him through for a few tries off little short soft passes close to the line. We have used him incorrectly and all decisions made were by our coaching staff. All that said I still do not think he is worth a overseas quota spot in any SL team because his defense is just not good enough. He seems , from the outside , as a really relaxed happy chap. He is only young so I hope he enjoys his time at Salford, goes well for them and is happy in life. One thing for sure Watson the Salford coach along with Ward at London must be the only contenders for coach of the year so you must think that Watson will get the best out of PP. If the Saints coach gets coach of the year it will be a travesty,

Watson and Ward should definitely be in contention for coach of the year.
Not sure how Salford will go next year, after adding Rowley to their coaching staff.

It's a tight call as to which of those 2 coaches deserves the gong.
London were tipped to be easy beats and have exceeded all expectations but Salford, tipped by many to be 10th/11th have a real chance of making the play offs and that is without the services of one of their star players, Lui, who fell for the bright lights of Leeds.
Watson seems really calm when in front of the cameras and I dont recall seeing him rattled, although I've no idea how he is behind the scenes.

Both Watson and Ward always seem to have a decent plan on how to play different opponents and ok, it may not always come off but, both are getting the max out of their respective squads.

Getting back to Pauli, I agree with Belly that we have tried to turn him into a different player and it absolutely hasn't worked.
Worth noting that his record during his loan spell at Salford far exceeded what he had managed with us.