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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:40 pm  
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To be fair, we heard the same about Carmont.

And either the Newcastle (?) fans didn't know what they were talking about, or it took a different coach to get a lot more out of him, or maybe both (which the one I suspect). My advice, let's wait and see.


Im sure the Newcastle fans didnt want him to go? I could be wrong tho
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Adam Blair flew over yesterday and has been training the deal is going to be signed this week

Got to say this is a top signing
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:42 pm  
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Im sure the Newcastle fans didnt want him to go? I could be wrong tho

They set up a petition to keep him but i think he'd totally divided opinion with some loving him and the rest wanting rid of him.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:48 pm  
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They set up a petition to keep him but i think he'd totally divided opinion with some loving him and the rest wanting rid of him.


That was the case. There was a strong rumour that the 'keep George' petition was a mickey-take.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 15, 2013 3:01 pm  
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That was the case. There was a strong rumour that the 'keep George' petition was a mickey-take.

That was the way I saw it at the time.

Under Wane we've had a pretty good record of getting the most out of players you wouldn't consider marquee signings.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:23 pm  
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That was the way I saw it at the time.

Under Wane we've had a pretty good record of getting the most out of players you wouldn't consider marquee signings.

I'm intrigued by this signing.

I mean, no one had any inkling that it was going to happen. Wests let him go six months into a two year contract. How did he get on Wigan's radar? He hasn't played representative rugby apart from one game for Samoa. Is getting a squad place for NZ back in 2009 enough? (That was 4 years ago)

He's 25 so not exactly young - he's probably reached his peak - but not exactly old so maybe has years left in him.

I've got tickets for the USA v Wales and USA v Scotland games but USA are probabaly the weakest nation of the 14 so playing in a side that gets tonked isn't going to tell us much I don't think.

I don't watch the NRL. Did anyone notice him last year?
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:34 pm  
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I'm intrigued by this signing.

I mean, no one had any inkling that it was going to happen. Wests let him go six months into a two year contract. How did he get on Wigan's radar? He hasn't played representative rugby apart from one game for Samoa. Is getting a squad place for NZ back in 2009 enough? (That was 4 years ago)

He's 25 so not exactly young - he's probably reached his peak - but not exactly old so maybe has years left in him.

I've got tickets for the USA v Wales and USA v Scotland games but USA are probabaly the weakest nation of the 14 so playing in a side that gets tonked isn't going to tell us much I don't think.

I don't watch the NRL. Did anyone notice him last year?



I had heard that Madge had made enquiries about him when still at Wigan.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:29 pm  
We'd definitely been linked to him under Maguire.

Lets see how he goes.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:15 am  
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I had heard that Madge had made enquiries about him when still at Wigan.

Didn't we enquire about him when Joel left for Saracens? Think he was still at the Bunnies back then.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:05 am  
Lets just hope he is better than those other strange signings such as Dudson & Flower.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:25 am  
If there is one thing that we can be sure of it is that if he doesn't play well he won't get picked -as Luakai has discovered.
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