Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:
Strange comment when nobody has made out he’s great, although he has been deemed good enough to play for his country several times.
Penrith Panthers also deemed him good enough for them to sign him, although he hasn’t yet played in the NRL, playing prop and only been 22, that’s not too surprising.
No it's not strange at all it's frankly obvious. People on the VT especially are very much like the people who cheered the kings new cloth in the fairytale.
PNG had roughly the same success in the Tournament as Ireland who they narrowly beat. I don't see the same ridiculous over hype for those players.
These players may do ok who knows but the hype surrounding them is as I say way it of proportion to ability. The only one with any real pedigree is Mead and even there it's totally OTT. The others are very much unknown quantities.
As I keep saying the players we get from the NRL are becoming less and less reliable. The odd gem usually an uknown but the rest are either past it or never really had it.
As for signing for the panthers so what they sign a lot of players. Jarrod Hickey arrived at BV having played for the Bulldogs for a number of seasons and was considered a star at one point. Worst player I have ever seen at BV and it's a fair old list!
So why you are so confident about a player who never got a game I'm not sure.
