oro said:It would be good to sign a player one day who actually wants to play with the club, not because he was forced out of his existing the club by a salary cap shortfall.
Blocker Shaw said:i sort of agree with you there pete. i thought it was vital that we signed at least one prop with frist grade experience. looking at the market there aren't really any better props out there than payten that we could have got.
however i've never really rated him much as a prop. ive always considered him to be a bit of a skandi immitator (in that he's big, slow and doesn't hit the line hard enough to make the big metres. sure enough looking through some back issues of big league when i check his stats im seeing numbers like 14 hitups for something like 68 metres or figures and other figures that are quite similar.
i rate props on their ability to make around 8-10 metres of each hit up and at least 100m made every game. all the top props do this fairly consistently. skando can hardly be said to make 8-10 m per hitup, and for mine payten cant either. still they should both be coming into their primes over the next year or two and could both be top props. all they need is aggresion, consistency and some luck.
but he should be decent, and allow the younger props more time to prepare themsleves for the top grade.
I think Payton could have gone to any number of clubs, and he chose us because of the Sheens factor. Didn't Sheens give him his debut? I think the fact that he was forced out of the Roosters shouldn't mean too much, especially because he chose us.oro said:It would be good to sign a player one day who actually wants to play with the club, not because he was forced out of his existing the club by a salary cap shortfall.
Lochie said:I think Payton could have gone to any number of clubs, and he chose us because of the Sheens factor. Didn't Sheens give him his debut? I think the fact that he was forced out of the Roosters shouldn't mean too much, especially because he chose us.
Lochie said:I think Payton could have gone to any number of clubs, and he chose us because of the Sheens factor. Didn't Sheens give him his debut? I think the fact that he was forced out of the Roosters shouldn't mean too much, especially because he chose us.oro said:It would be good to sign a player one day who actually wants to play with the club, not because he was forced out of his existing the club by a salary cap shortfall.
braz said:oh no. what i just said could be classified as a rumour. this place might get shut down :roll: