Graham a Rooster

[Horry]

Should be announced very soon. Also Kane Linnett has signed.

http://www.sydneyroosters.com.au/def...-two-year-deal

[Guest]

I hope so, he is a try scoring machine and is desperately needed.

[Guest]

Which Graham? Phil or Ashley?

Any sources on either of these?

Finally some strike in the centres. Expect whoever signs to get injured very quickly.

[Guest]

Graham Richardson.....

[Guest]

Graham Kennedy?

[Horry]

Phil............
Source - P O'S
2009 Awards night.
I asked him and he told me

[melon....]

Phil............
Source - P O'S
2009 Awards night.
I asked him and he told me

Phil's the better one right? because Cow fans have been begging us to take Ashley.

[Guest]

Which Graham? Phil or Ashley?

Any sources on either of these?

Finally some strike in the centres. Expect whoever signs to get injured very quickly.

Mate. You've dropped the ball. Can we have a new team listing posted

[melon....]

Mate. You've dropped the ball. Can we have a new team listing posted

yeah Mack, how does this signing effect our top 75? Will we need a 6 man bench?

[Guest]

Nah Melon, Coggie mentioned a week ago that we had signed Ash.

Confusion.

[supermario]

It's phil graham that we are signing not Ashley.

[Guest]

I hope this is bloody true!!

[Guest]

yeah Mack, how does this signing effect our top 75? Will we need a 6 man bench?

Off your high horse mate.

It's phil graham that we are signing not Ashley.

That is what I thought. Thanks for clearing that up.

Good signing - yes or no? He has plenty of pace and experience, but surely there were some better centres out there that we missed out on, like Collis, Millard, Esi Tonga, etc.

[Guest]

We needed experience badly imo. We also needed someone who can score trys. Watched him a couple of time and in all of them kept getting doubles, hat-tricks etc. But that was on the wing??

[Guest]

Phil Graham

2002 - 16 games (8 at wing, 3 at centre, 3 at fullback, 3 at bench), 13 tries, 9 linebreaks

2003 - 17 games (16 at centre, 1 at wing), 11 tries, 11 linebreaks

2004 - 5 games (4 at wing, 1 at centre), 4 tries, 2 linebreaks

2005 - 19 games (14 at centre, 5 at wing), 12 tries, 11 linebreaks

2006 - 19 games (19 at centre), 11 tries, 16 linebreaks

2007 - 15 games (15 at centre), 7 tries, 8 linebreaks

2008 - 3 games (3 at centre), 0 tries, 1 linebreak

2009 - 17 games (15 at wing, 1 at centre, 1 at fullback), 10 tries, 10 linebreaks

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Clearly a noted try scorer, but injuries are an issue.

In 2002 (Round 24 to Round 27 - 4 games), 2003 (Round 24 to Round 28 - 5 games), 2005 (Round 15 to Round 18 - 4 games), 2006 (Round 4 to Round 10 - 6 games + bye), 2007 (Round 8 to Round 17 - 8 games + bye) and 2009 (Round 2 to Round 7 - 6 games) he has suffered an injury in each year that has kept him out for AT LEAST a month of footy.

To add to that, there were 2 seasons (2004, 2008) where he essentially missed the entire year with injury.

Is he worth the risk? We will see.