Vatuvei : Tue May 24, 2016 9:52 pm  

Is it happening was that tweet real ?

Just noticed that Jonah Cunningham (saints reserves hooker and keirons lad) has just started following vatuvei on twitter. Yes i know twitter and yes it be because he has seen the reports linking him but surely keiron would tell him if it was a goer or not ?

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 7:36 am  

just seen it hmmmmmmmmmmm

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 7:51 am  

Can he come now? I reckon if we set up a crowdfunder, all the Saints fans would chip in enough for his airfare!

Get him over. Our first big winger since Meli. All we need then is a decent centre to pass him the ball, and we might start looking like a Saints team again.

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 8:56 am  

Don't forget there is another rugby league side with the same hashtags who play in a better country than ours in a better competition. How confident are we that it's us?

Are we happy with this signing? Despite his undeniable pedigree he's a player who at the end of the day isn't performing well enough to be playing in the NRL. Motivation will be key, get him fired up and we'll have a good signing, but he'll need to be more professional here than it seems he has been at NZW.

And if he has leaked the signing himself, McManus will be soooooooo annoyed. This would no doubt have been his big on field announcement signing when season ticket renewals were opened.

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 9:08 am  

He had problems last season and was made the sacrifice why? though when there seemed to be others involved, another European holiday hope not.

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 9:51 am  

We need other positions more then a winger imo

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 10:31 am  

Us spending presumably big money on him is like buying a new flash car when you already have a car and the kids are starving. There are other areas that should be priorities. We need a centre, a hooker and at least 2 forwards. We're either wasting a bunch of our cap on a 30 year old winger who will play for us for 2 or 3 years or we're going to turn him into a centre instead of signing a specialised centre which for me would be another mistake.

It seems incredibly short term thinking and just signing a name for the sake of it. I'd be very disappointed if we were to let one of Swift or Makinson go (who could be our wingers for the next 5 years) when neither are a major issue just to sign this fella.

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 10:33 am  

St pete wrote:

We need other positions more then a winger imo

We need several things, but IMO a big winger is one of them. Vatuvei is about as good as we could get in that category.

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 11:05 am  

Dux wrote:

We need several things, but IMO a big winger is one of them. Vatuvei is about as good as we could get in that category.

Will he get any ball?

I think we do need a winger but imo a top quality centre, a top quality 7 and two forwards are needed much more than a winger

Re: Vatuvei : Wed May 25, 2016 5:26 pm  

So long as it is quality they can sign who they like.