Saints sign 2 more forwards

[DirtyHarry]

Both are young ass depth.....

One of the more interesting comments on here in recent days

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

The thing I noticed about the Roosters game, their reserve forwards Taukeiaho, Matagi, Lui were all fantastic.

I was thinking we have no forward depth as guys like O'Brien, Rose and even Marketo are not really up to it compared to the bigger packs.

Don't know much about these 2, but if they can provide the same impact as the Roosters reserves, I'll be pretty happy.

They do OK is spurts. We were always going to be thin this year (no Georgie pun intented) when injuries hit. We're barely able to get a team on the park this week. Hopefully Rory has improved. George WILL make an impact, albeit a short one and Jake is first forward back in to the NRL team when we get stretched.

Payne & especially Ione are immediate replacements and help us plug a hole.

Thank f**k the Cows are as stretched as us this weekend.

 

[pinkmoon]

Love that video but you must wonder why he hasn't had a run in first grade yet? He's 24 and still hasn't made his debut.. if he plays like that every game surely he'd have had a run by now.

On the flipside if he can take that sort of form into first grade well f**k me dead we may have another beast in our hands. All of a sudden our pack for 2016 is actually looking intimidating

because the two elbows he threw were penalties (he actually did get penalised for them in that game) and the legitimate hit ups were average. You also have to be able make smart decisions in defence, which is why he can't crack the Raiders FG team.

 

[Cagey Mac]

Both look good to me and I imagine will compete for a place with incumbents for a 2016 gig.
They are quite different in style and Ioane shows some nice footwork and speed before the line
Both have the ability to stop an attacking forward in their tracks.

 

[West coast dragon]

Watched him in a couple of games, does some good things and is definitely a future prospect but still needs to gain some size. Will really see how he goes next year after another pre-season hopefully.

cheers noodles!

 

[bottle]

because the two elbows he threw were penalties (he actually did get penalised for them in that game) and the legitimate hit ups were average. You also have to be able make smart decisions in defence, which is why he can't crack the Raiders FG team.

He wasn't penalised. Ref halted play due to the injured player. There were also no raised elbows. If you watch it closely you'll see that in the hit up he takes from the kick off the elbow isn't raised, it's held down just above his hip. The impact was all leading with the shoulder.

None of this makes him an NRL level player, just pointing out that there were no penalties associated with these runs. There was a longer video running around that had more follow up to these hits when this thing first surfaced. However they seem to have been removed so it's impossible to see the consequential footage.

 

[_snafu_]

Not sure how excited I should be about these signings. Page looks great in reserve grade but not sure how effective he'd be in the big step up to NRL, and as others have mentioned there is a big question mark over why he hasn't played first grade yet.

That being said, he is only 24 and as a prop the next couple of years could be make or break for him.

Either way, they add some depth to our squad with Rose etc moving on at the end of the year.

For the same reason The Butcher is not playing first grade?

 

[bottle]

Bad hair do?

 

[jenninga]

For the same reason The Butcher is not playing first grade?

Geez,i hope Page isn't shithouse as well.

 

[Auntie.Gerald]

My guess is that he fades in and out of games

But obviously has ticker

Let's see how he goes

 

[hardbaby]

They do OK is spurts. We were always going to be thin this year (no Georgie pun intented) when injuries hit. We're barely able to get a team on the park this week. Hopefully Rory has improved. George WILL make an impact, albeit a short one and Jake is first forward back in to the NRL team when we get stretched.

Payne & especially Ione are immediate replacements and help us plug a hole.

Thank f**k the Cows are as stretched as us this weekend.

The cows aren't too badly off if they can leave Spina in reserve grade!!