Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:11 am  

St pete wrote: I'm petty sure he holds Italian passport What a fountain of RL knowledge you are!!! What's the wink for? Irony because his name sounds a bit Italian? Tool. He's played for Italy for all sound minded Saints fans by the way: http://www.angelfire.com/oz/greekrugbyl ... 0Italy.htm

St pete wrote: I'm petty sure he holds Italian passport What a fountain of RL knowledge you are!!! What's the wink for? Irony because his name sounds a bit Italian? Tool. He's played for Italy for all sound minded Saints fans by the way: http://www.angelfire.com/oz/greekrugbyl ... 0Italy.htm

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:13 am  

jonny the leyther wrote: What a fountain of RL knowledge you are!!! What's the wink for? Irony because his name sounds a bit Italian? Tool. He's played for Italy for all sound minded Saints fans by the way: http://www.angelfire.com/oz/greekrugbyl ... 0Italy.htm Christ! I said the shopping is bad in Leigh and now your stalking me. Grow up poop for brains!

jonny the leyther wrote: What a fountain of RL knowledge you are!!! What's the wink for? Irony because his name sounds a bit Italian? Tool. He's played for Italy for all sound minded Saints fans by the way: http://www.angelfire.com/oz/greekrugbyl ... 0Italy.htm Christ! I said the shopping is bad in Leigh and now your stalking me. Grow up poop for brains!

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:16 am  

St pete wrote:

How do Wigan have Richards, Roberts, lulu, Lima, finch, Hoffman, hansan?

Richards is Irish, Hansen has been in the UK since school and even represented England academy and Leuluai has been a UK resident since 2004.

Carmont however is a foreign Wigan player you didn't mention

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:17 am  

Just pointing out some facts, no need to get narky.

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:18 am  

jonny the leyther wrote:

Richards is Irish, Hansen has been in the UK since school and even represented England academy and Leuluai has been a UK resident since 2004.

Richards is Irish? In an Australian sense, obviously!

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:22 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

Richards is Irish? In an Australian sense, obviously!

He was born in Australia, but grew up in Ireland as both his parents are Irish.

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:23 am  

jonny the leyther wrote:

He was born in Australia, but grew up in Ireland as both his parents are Irish.

yep, he sounds just like he grew up in Ireland

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:24 am  

jonny the leyther wrote:

He was born in Australia, but grew up in Ireland as both his parents are Irish.

Then he is Australian, unless he acquired Irish citizenship and rejected his Australian citizenship. Oh, and he sounds very Australian for someone brought up in Ireland! I've heard justifications for Wigan's continuing sizeable number of foreign players, but this one is stretching it a tad, I have to say.

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:24 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

It's a shame we're doing this. I know we need some grunt up front given James Graham's exit but we were doing so well on developing home grown players and bringing in British players but now we are going for ageing Aussies again. It feels like a bad reaction to two of our star products walking away somehow.

Knee jerk reaction? We've reportedly signed a second overseas player, and by all accounts Flannery and TP are going to leave... I know they are not like for like, but lets see what happens to the rest of the squad for 2012, in theory at the moment its 2 in, 2 out.

Don't get me wrong, I fully agree that UK players would be better (ideally our own Academy) but there is only so far you can compromise the quality of your squad if significantly better players are available, kids for kids sake won't work unless they are good enough. At the moment we haven't got anyone close to being a first team prop in our junior ranks (there are some who may step up over the next 12-24 months) but Graham wasn't just a first team prop.

Re: Saints sign Laffranchi : Mon May 02, 2011 8:27 am  

jonny the leyther wrote:

He was born in Australia, but grew up in Ireland as both his parents are Irish.

Do you know him?