Surely a large amount of 'form' for a forward is down to fitness & mental attitude? Given he is very much the wrong side of 30 I think we'd be making a big mistake signing him.
As we've got noddy in charge again next year & we are going to go backwards rather than forwards in terms of our competitiveness I'd rather sign or promote from within somebody 10 years younger who is chomping at the bit rather than some over the hill pro on the verge of retirement.

Let me give you the facts.. no winks just facts.
We had been speaking to SF at length recently however there was shall we say some unease at various points in the discussions regarding the player himself and the conversations went onto other players however we have over the last 4 weeks discussed SF with his agent at length and as close as Monday he was discussed again and that is as far as it has gone as of lunchtime today!!
Same agent acted for Karl Price and Coley who were also all discussed at lentgh with Coley it seems opting for another one year deal at Wigan to then retire and concentrate on his own business interests and Karl Price is ongoing as it stands wether he is on contract or not!!

Back to SF he is prime age for a good prop as most decent props dont hit their straps fully till 30 plus anyway, however some mature quicker and some later but to call SF a spent force is laughable, he isnt the player he was at bradford I will give you that but he has played a lot of rugby since he was at Bradford which may have something to do with it..
RE his boxing match with Radford.. get real SF knew he was no boxer but had the guts to get in knowing he was up for a shoeing against one of SL true hard men who can box a bit too in Lee Radford , had a good dig all for charity and everyone had nothing but great things to say about him afterwards with Lee Radford himself calling him " one of his closest pals with a big heart" and very few would stay in the ring for long with LR.
With regards his punch he recieved from Willie Mason, I would put money on that punch cleaning out anyone from any sport and many boxers too!! SF caught it on the button and it simply compounded a tour he should not have been on anyway due to the death he had to a parent immediately before he left for OZ but hey lets keep going on about something that happened a long time ago huh..
If we were to sign SF we would be getting one of the most experienced props in world rugby who is at present playing some of his best rugby of recent times and would compliment our pack no end!! and would be a p[layer with some 4 years decent rugby still in him .

However as it stands we have no signed him as of lunchtime today !!
With regards

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and feka is twice the player fielden is we should go for him

is he?

I think he means by weight

your not wrong, meat was cheap when he was a lad

Good post.
He has been in very good form this season and think he would be an excellent signing.

The stuff about Coley and co in Expro's post can be found on the Salford board. The rest of it, as usual, is Expro responding to someone else's rumour.

He makes some good and valid points about Fieldon as a player though.

Surely you're not suggesting expro really isn't as much in the know as he claims?

This is the guy who says we will finish 3rd, agar is a top coach and that we would beat wigan by 6-8 points last Friday. How can you question his claims?

Listen joker, like anyone else i cannot see into the future and i thought last time i looked that this was an opinions board ???
I think we could still finish third , my opinion , not a fact a guess yes comprende??
I though we would give wigan a match and who could have guessed that would happen ??
Agar is a good coach
and yes your a blockage i just cant shift no matter how hard i push