New Prop / Middle Forward

[roosterproud]

we lose kane and guerra.
the roos have Eloni, Smith collins. our 20s have joe Ratuvikvghfrhsdcjkskhdfg and Sitilli Tuopokdytcd to move over the be trained by Rip at the Roos. one solid old school prop fro a year would be good

[Cockadoodledoo]

I like the players we have in the lower grades and I think Robbo's shown time after time that he can bring through a middle third player and turn them into a First Grader in a short space of time.

Players like Isaac Liu, Taukeiaho, Napa & Tetevano all came from relative obscurity.

Lindsay Collins is definitely a prime candidate IMO to have a break out year following a similar sort of path the players mentioned above did. Was impressed with him the first time I saw him and he got a lot of good experience this year.

Collins needs to put some meat onto his body, his frame is too light based on his height. He has a good attitude but I think the odds are stacked against him, unless he can put on some bulk but not at the expense of speed.

[Cockadoodledoo]

Graham has far more to his game than Napa does or ever will, hits the line and then some, has good leg drive and can create second phase as he has a pass as well.

The problem with Graham is his body has taken a beating, particularly all the head knocks. i think he is a big risk for the Dragons.

[Mickie Lane]

Seriously what middle forwards are on the market?

[Guest]

Its a shame Kane Evans could not make it with us.

[Thirteen]

Middle forward!? WTF!
The position is called prop.

[Mickie Lane]

Middle forward!? WTF!
The position is called prop.

Front row.
R6 refers to them as tight forwards so I think thats where I get in from.

[Rooster_6]

Collins needs to put some meat onto his body, his frame is too light based on his height. He has a good attitude but I think the odds are stacked against him, unless he can put on some bulk but not at the expense of speed.

Putting on bulk is the easy part.

I do agree though both he and Tetevano would benefit from a little more body mass next year.

[Rooster_6]

Seriously what middle forwards are on the market?

Mitch Garbutt wants to come back to Australia.

Throws a good punch too.

[eddie]

Middle forward!? WTF!
The position is called prop.

Yeah.
But there is 3 now.
The lock is a "middle forward"...............

The new age league fan, with the attention span of an ant, is told what to like by the idiots that change the rules constantly.
Drives me nuts worse than ptsd or targin or ..................anything I could think of.

FFS, if they wanted to turn the srcum into a joke to save the referee having to blow his whistle, the least they could do would be to make the forwards be the suckers who have to do it.

[Rocky Rhodes]

If we had the money to spare for Cronk why didn't we go for James Graham, would have been a far wiser purchase in my opinion.

James Graham a wise purchase??? Would have been our next Mark O'Meley purchase imo.

Slow plodder, doesn't bust the line, slow play the balls after flops...the dinosaur belongs in another era.

Counting saint hellens do u realise he has played 360 first grade games. Seriously bad purchase for St Merge for 3 yrs. They be lucky if they get one good season out of him.

[Kelby]

Could we ask Penrith to take Pearce for Campbell-Gillard?

Just saying........................

[Darkone]

This is where we do need to spend money IMO. Our prop depth and our go forward is lacking big time.

Former Roosters STAR and current Catalans & France national captain REMI CASTY is my pick.

He'll be cheap(ish), the boys love him, Trent loves him, plays a simple hard working game in the middle, has great leadership qualities.

I also don't think he got a fair crack last time, as he was stuck behind O'Donnell, Moa, JWH, FPN, Evans, Napa etc in the pecking order.

To replace Evans, we couldn't get better value IMO.

This thread is now of concern.....

[Rooster_6]

I like the players we have in the lower grades and I think Robbo's shown time after time that he can bring through a middle third player and turn them into a First Grader in a short space of time.

Players like Isaac Liu, Taukeiaho, Napa & Tetevano all came from relative obscurity.

Lindsay Collins is definitely a prime candidate IMO to have a break out year following a similar sort of path the players mentioned above did. Was impressed with him the first time I saw him and he got a lot of good experience this year.

Robbo's proven yet again that he's got a great knack at developing middle third forwards.

Pre-season everyone was adamant we were short a propr or two, I wonder how many people would still maintain that argument.

[Kelvin Johnson]

Robbo's proven yet again that he's got a great knack at developing middle third forwards.

Pre-season everyone was adamant we were short a propr or two, I wonder how many people would still maintain that argument.

Had the chance to pick up Woods very cheap but he said No Thanks to Nick on that one. Brave man and he was rewarded with a new contract.
Robbo proved he is the man now and he runs the show.