Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:04 pm  

[quote="Offside Monkey"][/quote]

Ok, I didn't see that.

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:11 pm  

What's disappointing is the fact Hull Kr get a "substantial fee" for a player with a year remaining on his contract, but we let them walk for free...

Good luck to Sia, absolutely no bad feelings towards him, but I believe he's replaceable...

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 5:54 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

What's disappointing is the fact Hull Kr get a "substantial fee" for a player with a year remaining on his contract, but we let them walk for free...

Good luck to Sia, absolutely no bad feelings towards him, but I believe he's replaceable...

With who ?

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:17 pm  

St pete wrote:

With who ?

don't make me get my charts out again

What would be difficult to replace is his influence, but he's struggled to have that this season (only castleford away springs to mind) so hopefully others at the club can step up. I'd really like some kind of incoming announcement before Wakefield, it's at a time when it's needed imo

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:30 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

don't make me get my charts out again

What would be difficult to replace is his influence, but he's struggled to have that this season (only castleford away springs to mind) so hopefully others at the club can step up. I'd really like some kind of incoming announcement before Wakefield, it's at a time when it's needed imo

It's very rare to get a overseas player that loves the club like Sia does. If you look at how he started with the injuries, if would be easy for him to have got homesick etc but he genuinely loves saints and the town.

I don't you will get thst sort of comitment from another overseas. He's back in form now and we will miss his aggressive defence and his hard strong running.

He will be a big miss.

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:15 pm  

The wheels on the bus go round and round !

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:18 pm  

Its time we give the opportunity to Greenwood, Richards, Thompson and Sav in raising there game, if we don,t they will be going the same way as Ashurst and Dixon.

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:18 pm  

Dux wrote:

Sia has been great for us, but I don't think his leaving is particularly disastrous. For all his exuberance, he does have defensive flaws in his game. I'll miss him, but I don't think he's irreplaceable.

It doesn't help that Brown uses him totally wrong. The amount of times Sia drives it up through the middle like some cannon-fodder prop is so frustrating. He should be charging onto clever balls at the less congested fringes of the ruck area to rip holes in the opposition defence.

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:21 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Its time we give the opportunity to Greenwood, Richards, Thompson and Sav in raising there game, if we don,t they will be going the same way as Ashurst and Dixon.

Savelio aside, the others are just bog-standard forwards. They'll give it their all, but will never be standout players. Savelio has that something extra, although not without some faults in his game (which hopefully we can iron out)

Re: Soliola Signs 2 yr Contract : Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:22 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Its time we give the opportunity to Greenwood, Richards, Thompson and Sav in raising there game, if we don,t they will be going the same way as Ashurst and Dixon.

Thompson is getting enough rugby and is coming along nicely. Richards isn't a secondrow.

We need to replace Sia as he's one of our top players. We went down that road of not replacing quality with quality from 2007 to 2013 and still not recovered now.