better than the bottom two and relegation you'll be playing for

Have to say feka maybe a great signing for you guys depending on his shape! At Wigan pre Mcguire days he was large shall we say but the damage he did in the 30 mins he would play was massive taking at least three men in every tackle and how many times did he rumble over from the 20! However maguire got him to slim up and unfortunately the mass he lost took away his power and force! Would love to see him at his best knocking players on there backsides in super league again

Hardly a hunch. For every Ryan McGoldrick there's a Ben Galea, for every Martin Aspinwall a Chris Thorman. That aside, the very idea that the negative opinions of a few message board posters is likely to have any effect on the chances of a signing being successful or not is, in itself, absurd. By your reckoning, if the reaction had been overwhelmingly positive, that would decrease the chances of him being successful.



The two positions are not mutually exclusive. I am against the signing - I think it's a poor one. That doesn't mean I don't accept the possibility that he will surprise a few people and recapture his best form. I just that I think the odds are against it. You could put me in the 85/15 camp, rather than the 50/50 one.

I took a few knocks to the head the other day and I'm really hoping I'm unconscious and this is all just a bad dream.

Is this the "project" signing we were expecting then? I'm a little underwhelmed but not seeing him play for a while I will reserve judgement. Welcome to FC Feka, all the doubters will soon clam up if you rip in on your debut.

Personally I'd have much preferred us having Michael Weyman as our starting prop with Paea.
That'd done for me.
Feka? Time will tell!

You lay it on too thick and its counter productive. Spin is inevitable, but it can be done less glaringly. We've got the Ben Cockayne announcement to look forward to, of course, where I suspect more prominence will be given to his ETS call-up rather than the string of off field incidents that led to his departure in the first place, so I'm not throwing stones.



Even Smailes!


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He could be brilliant, he could be washed-up (IP, not Smailes), it's a gamble, but all signings are. The fact it is 2 years makes it a bigger gamble, but it suggests a confidence that he has still got it - whether that is well placed, we'll see.

Your signings smack of on and off field issues , though most of you are too blind to see it.

If you would take Feka and Paea over Costigan and Weyman , then fair enough that's your opinion.

It's not my opinion , nor is it the opinion of many , many others.

I'm not particularly defending the use of spin or even the level used by the club, just pointing out the sad inevitability of it. I long since passed the point where spin of any sort affected me one way or the other TBH.


The Smailes bit was just to indicate that not all the reports had come from the FC camp rather than to indicate a belief that Smailes is particularly expert at judging the fitness of ageing RL players.

Go on then, list them. I could do with a laugh





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