Quelle surprise.

Well, I await his presence in the 2013 SL dream team, and him to be regarded as one of the best 2nd rowers in the league for the next couple of years.
Paterson v Ellis is going to be some derby encounter, obviously.

. . .in your opinion!



I've just been watching Cory playing for NQC, he is a different type of 2nd rower to what we have at Rovers. IMO he will complement Mika, Galea (if he stays) and Coxy, and if all goes to plan become the impact player Rovers have lacked.

Cory also brings a solid defence, he can boot the ball miles, and jumps as high as any player I have seen. I can see him becoming a massive favourite.

Hull fans always (well, often) run down our signings - and vice versa in fairness. Let's see how he gets on once he's here. Making the right sounds at least, which is all he can do at present.
Remember that Newton is generally held in much lower esteem amongst Newcastle fans, than among HKR fans so roopy's endorsement is perhaps just slightly more qualified than first appears.

If Laithwaite is finally confirmed and it's a permanent deal, we suddenly look well stocked in the backrow, and less so for (experienced) props, which'd be a reverse of this season. Lovegrove could move back to prop from being a prop-like 13, I guess, with Galea or Murrell at 13. Otherwise this looks like a sign of further departures (BOOOO!) and arrivals (HUZZZZAH!)

Wow, your credibility rating just fell a couple more points.

I didn't realise you rated Clint so highly either.

In my opinion, Newton was fairly rubbish in his last season and spent most of his time knocking on, so Paterson won't have to be that good to be better than him.

Newton was also never better than Galea. Newton was a show pony, a mostly effective one but a show pony none the less.

^^^^What he said

The period when the flat pass stuck more often than not, he was really good. When he started to knock on a high proportion of the time, less so. Tbf, if I could see it coming I suspect the opposition could too.

Very fine player for us. I prefer Galea's style, but I think he was of the same quality or as near as makes no difference. That was some good recruitment to get the pair of them!

Looks like Sandy is going to maintain a 'huge' pack, with Dobbo and Blake pulling the strings at half backs. All we need is some 'genuine' pace in the backs and I reckon we will be worrying a few sides in 2013.

Exciting signing i reckon. Plenty of NRL experience and coming across at a good age. Good to see that Craig Sandercock is now signing ex-Newcastle players aswell as current ones. Our net can now trawl wider.

Read what he put again, the swear filter substituted the C word with friend, so you're wrong again my friend.

If he was better than clint newton then someone in the NRL would have made him an offer that even warrington couldn't get near

So apart from the fact he's unfit, goes missing during games and is a manic depressive, he's OK

How strange you should only notice the points in Roopys post from the paragraph starting "on the down side".