Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:52 pm  

Announced on Twitter not by the club but by the Star.

Appalling news IMO. He's not a prop in a million years and is a very average backrower. He wouldn't get in the starting 17 if everyone was fit and is a complete waste of a quota spot.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:02 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Announced on Twitter by the club and by the Star.

Appalling news IMO. He's not a prop in a million years and is a very average backrower. He wouldn't get in the starting 17 if everyone was fit and is a complete waste of a quota spot.

Shocking news and another poor signing IMO.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:25 pm  

While I'm not as harsh on Laffranchi as some, I do think this is a poor signing. He doesn't have an impact as prop, his form hasn't been great, and he's going to be on a relatively huge contract. Bad news indeed. The one position where we have plentiful cover is in medium-sized, not-very-fast second-rows. So why we want to pay over the odds for an Aussie one, taking up budget and quota spot, is beyond me.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:28 pm  

The club just keeps on making the same mistakes over and over again.

In the end nothing can or will change until someone at the club can tell the difference between a good player and a bad one. Shocking news.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:32 pm  

Good to see McManus' warning about players not pulling their weight extends to everyone.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:33 pm  

Most worrying thing is that the other players rumoured to have signed extensions probably have. Laffranchi is probably the second least horrific of the four.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:39 pm  

I can't see any tweets from the club on this.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:46 pm  

I think you're all being a little harsh he was our best forward last year along with Sia and this year his not been as bad as people make out im not his biggest fan but if we 2 big props and ship him permanently to second row then i think jobs a good un.

LMS
Roby
Masoe
Soliola
Manu
Wilkin

Walmsley
New Prop (Hopkins)
Laffranchi
Thompson/ Walker/ New Prop (Beaumont)

Would be a very decent pack Imo.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:05 pm  

I have no problem with him on an extended contract as long as he stays as a back row forward, we,ve tended to judge him as a prop. Not sure if would be in the first 13 a bench spot perhaps, solid experienced player more of a workhorse, Manu and Soliola can do the special stuff.

Re: Anthony Laffranchi - Sentence extended : Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:44 pm  

Dux wrote:

I can't see any tweets from the club on this.

Ooops yeah, it's not the club, my mistake. They've probably blocked me, it's the St Helens Star, and they are just rebroadcasting people's eye witness claims of Laffranchi telling people he's extended his contract. Nothing official yet.

Hopefully they see the reactions and withdraw the offer.