As a signing, it genuinely is as good as I could have expected. A seasoned international second rower with some real grunt. Fakir clearly isn't finished with the game as if he was fed up, why would he have signed, and assuming he is even in reasonable shape and form, then he would still be as good or better a forward than the majority in SL. Add to that our dearth of props and resulting struggle to get on a roll in any given game, and he is twice as valuable to us.
Wonder how come nobody else signed him up?
