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I suspect we simply couldn't interest a prop of the required quality. Agar stated we were looking on more than one occasion. If that's right then I have no problem with us having signed Fusitu'a. Jim is right in that power down the middle will always have its place in RL. I'd say it's equally true that sides that offer nowt else might compete but rarely win trophies.
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I feel like we've complaining about needing a new prop since 2006.
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I feel we need to add an established prop to the squad but we need to also bare in mind that it usually takes a season or so for NRL props to transition to super league

I certainly wouldn’t want us to bring in an NRL prop into a marquee slot
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ArthurClues wrote:
Another prop is on just about everybody's shopping list, but worth remembering that we dominated a lot of sides down the middle last season and struggled to convert that into points. Fusitu'a, even if he is 85% of the 2018 version, is a far more athletic winger than either of the Briscoes. Get him fit and happy and he might win us a load of games.

Hopefully you’re right. I felt we dropped off down the middle significantly when Mik got injured and Prior went down with COVID and a form dip. You would like to think with our new half-backs we should create far more for the outside backs when we do get into good ball, whoever is playing there.

One thing we need to do this season is execute with higher skill. The amount of errors in us has still been a big problem.

Really looking forward to seeing Fusitu’a in action.
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Jack Burton wrote:
I feel like we've complaining about needing a new prop since 2006.

I'd pinpoint it to that day we released Luke Burgess and Ben Cross on the same day, mid season, in 2011 :lol:
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Ahh, Ben Cross.

(Stares wistfully into distance)
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The Ghost of '99 wrote:
I'd pinpoint it to that day we released Luke Burgess and Ben Cross on the same day, mid season, in 2011 :lol:

Not to the point TS started JJB at prop in the 2006 season?
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Not to the point TS started JJB at prop in the 2006 season?


One of the reasons we lost the 2005 cup final, in my opinion. Not JJB’s fault, but Tony Smith’s
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Ahh, Ben Cross.

(Stares wistfully into distance)


Ahh indeed.........absolutely dreadful
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I still think everyone mistook Ben Cross for the far better Ben Ross. The guy basically blagged a career, including rather unbelievably getting selected for NSW.
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