Trojan Horse wrote:
That number 8 for Lebanon looks good.
Kayne Kalanche - Newtown jets prop or second row. Looks a big unit and quite mobile. Mixing it with the NZ team quite well.
A few very handy looking forwards in this Lebanon team.
I think you’ve inadvertently highlighted the problem these days with imports.
He probably is very handy and would do well. However the Newtown Jets are no bush team. He will be on a fair wedge there. I know it’s not full time money but it won’t be bad. Add that to a lower cost of living and a weak pound and the U.K. becomes less tempting.
He won’t come here for peanuts or to fulfil his ambition, he will want big money, far more than he’d ever get in Oz.
It’s not that we couldn’t afford him or tempt him but you have to ask a very honest question.
Is this lower grade Australian worth the same money or more that we payed Arona or even more pertinent what we likely pay Ashurst. Are we going to pay big money for a gem or are we paying big money for mediocrity?
That’s my dilemma and has been in recent years, is this lad really better than what we could find and nurture in the U.K.
I know it was just one game but there was nothing from that Wakeman that suggested to me he was any better than Morgan Smith.
Just how I see it, but I think these days good overseas players are thin pickings if I’m honest. I think we were hugely lucky with Whitebread who’s ambition thankfully matched his obvious physical prowess.
Tricky these days.
