themanonthehill said:
Fats is a 2 time premiership winner who has bagged a try every 2 games in the NRL. He has won comps with sides that weren't fancied at all and was a very very solid defender (save for a few games this year).
Dene Halatau is not and never will be a hooker. Good out of dummy half on occasions, but then so is Steve Matai - yet you don't see Hasler playing him at hooker like the self anointed super coach that is shines. Dene is a very effective backrower who has good utility value
Shannon is a lightweight tard who can't tackle, catch or hold a ball, who has been resigned for 3 years based on the fact his equally pathetic father (who has delivered us the likes of Peter Lewis, his own son and the likes of O'Hara and Morris)
Fats never has and never will be a good defender, hence the reason no NRL club was willing to pay anywhere near the money he was wanting, hence the reason he was offloaded by the Warriors, the Storm and the Panthers before we signed him in desperation, as anything was an improvement on the likes of those Balmain products in O`Halloran and Bradley-Qualilawa.
. You`ll see how good a defender he is once again when he gets carved up this weekend and like good `ole Mark O`Neill, he`ll even prove to be a flop in the Super League.
Halatau quite simply hasn`t had a go since `2005 yet commands over $150,000 of our salary cap, you tell me what he should be worth ???
And as for Warren McDonnell, it`s very debateable as to whether he was responsible for signing Peter Lewis, i`m more inclined to believe this was a Tim Sheens brainstorm, but when bagging Warren McDonnell, don`t forget about the 4 Junior Kangaroos he recruited, can`t be doing too bad a job ??? Since McDonnell starting as our recruitment officer, every promising junior that we`ve wanted to keep has been retained, would you rather go back 5 or so years and see all our best local talent snapped up by rival NRL clubs, yet superstars such as O`Halloran and Bradley-Qualilawa be given the saloon passage into first grade ???
