Taumalolo or Napa who would you choose

[stephenj]

there are worse places to be than t5he shire! south Sydney for one!

[dj_sta]

According to The Australian Lolo is close to agreeing to a new deal to stay at Townsville.

[rwbfl]

According to The Australian Lolo is close to agreeing to a new deal to stay at Townsville.

Reports change every day, but this wouldn't surprise me. Would be a shame, but I doubt we could afford him anyway

[dj_sta]

Which would mean we are closer to locking in Napa as well. Unless a spanner is thrown in the Merrin deal and we see a straight swap. But I doubt this!

Robbo seems like he rather hang on to Napa then pay big bucks for Merrin. And I read somewhere Napa saying he wants to stay at Easts

[Darkone]

I was flicking through the channels and I came across the sevens on the weekend. I don't know if you watched but there is a 17 yr old lad who made his debut and played the whole tournament for the kiwis and goes by the name of " Rieko Ioane". He is a star, he was fending off blokes for fun. Look him up he is destined for big things. He is the next SBW

He's still at school & is better than SBW was at that age....

[davos]

Tough question because it all depends on the moolah.

I think the comparison's of Taumalolo to SBW are laughable. lolo has nowhere near the offloading / defensive attributes of SBW. SBW even last year, made some very important tackles when it looked like a break was on and I think that part of his game, arguably the least noticed, is the part that will be most missed this year. I don't think that lolo has the same fitness levels as SBW or the same offloading/playmaking that sbw can create from nowhere.

lolo though has more power than Napa which is a big bonus when he plays off the bench. I think though that if napa can learn to tuck his shoulder in when tackling, he can become a real tackling machine. I'd like to see him move to lock also later in his career. I think he can play long minutes.

[Guest]

Tough question because it all depends on the moolah.

I think the comparison's of Taumalolo to SBW are laughable. lolo has nowhere near the offloading / defensive attributes of SBW. SBW even last year, made some very important tackles when it looked like a break was on and I think that part of his game, arguably the least noticed, is the part that will be most missed this year. I don't think that lolo has the same fitness levels as SBW or the same offloading/playmaking that sbw can create from nowhere.

lolo though has more power than Napa which is a big bonus when he plays off the bench. I think though that if napa can learn to tuck his shoulder in when tackling, he can become a real tackling machine. I'd like to see him move to lock also later in his career. I think he can play long minutes.

Your right. SBW was a 1 off no one will ever match him just like no one will ever match Artie or Dave Brown or Freddy or Dally himself they are never replaced but new guys come along & do there best.

Napa at lock I havn't really considered but it could be a good ploy it would mean Maubs stays on the bench & I think you would unfortunately have to have Kennedy on the bench & Meehan would miss out.

At full strength
JWH
Friend
Moa
Guerra
Cordner
Napa

Bench
Liu
Maubs
Hastings
Kennedy

I don't think that bench is good enough.

[Cockadoodledoo]

lolo though has more power than Napa which is a big bonus when he plays off the bench.

There is no chance he is playing off the bench next season regardless of who he plays for.

[Thirteen]

JT for sure. Huge X-factor.
Napa makes 3 metres a run and is suspended for stupidity too often.

[Headless Chook]

He's still at school & is better than SBW was at that age....

Yeah I watched that on Wednesday arvo. There's also a big Aussie who I have seen running around called Pama Fou who goes ok

[BUDDY]

I have no doubt we will be signing a big name player for 2016.

With talk of us losing the likes of BBQ, SKD, Toups, Napa and RTS and no guarantee that Fergo will be us depending on how he goes this year, it leaves a huge chunk of cap space.

The obvious candidates are:

Taumalolo - rumoured to want to move to Sydney.
Merrin - backup option if we don't succeed luring Taumalolo.
Folau - rumoured that he won't re-sign with union. Who knows he may want to try his hand at NFL.
Foran - Parra are odds-on to take him but apparently we are still in the mix.

Of these four if we lose RTS, Toups and/or SKD then I think we would go hard for Folau.

[Bansai Pipeline]

Napa is a bit of an imbecile.

What kind of player puts on a shoulder charge in a pre-season novelty tournament?

He's also exactly the kind of player who'd get himself suspended on the eve of a GF.

He needs to figure it out.

[Guest]

Well said BP. There is no place in the modern game for stupid selfish players.

[Guest]

I was flicking through the channels and I came across the sevens on the weekend. I don't know if you watched but there is a 17 yr old lad who made his debut and played the whole tournament for the kiwis and goes by the name of " Rieko Ioane". He is a star, he was fending off blokes for fun. Look him up he is destined for big things. He is the next SBW

Bro', the All Blacks will get first dibs, they won't let the modern day ZinZan Brooke,Jonah Lomu who meets SBW without a fight.

[Guest]

Well said BP. There is no place in the modern game for stupid selfish players.

Well the modern game sucks then.

It don't matter who we keep or buy regarding the penalty situation anyway.Once the player is in red, white and blue, he becomes an instant offender to the bastards in pink.