Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 12:29 pm  

al283 wrote:

Reading todays HDM article about those moving on.........….

Notable exception to those included is Mickey Paea - is his future still up in the air I wonder ?

Doubt it, probably want him to go out in a fanfare, it would be expecting too much for him to play on.

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 12:37 pm  

Well I reckon he'll get a one year contract.

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 1:52 pm  

ccs wrote:

Well I reckon he'll get a one year contract.

Doesn't send the right signals, unless we have someone lined up for 2021, he's been bang average this year IMHO, had great games, but not been on the factory floor in others.

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 3:58 pm  

As a matter of interest who do you think has been our best prop

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:06 pm  

IR80 wrote:

Doesn't send the right signals, unless we have someone lined up for 2021, he's been bang average this year IMHO, had great games, but not been on the factory floor in others.

Para has had a good season, apart from the first couple of games I'll wouldn't keep him though, I'd rather keep Green, but you have to trust Radford

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:25 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Para has had a good season, apart from the first couple of games I'll wouldn't keep him though, I'd rather keep Green, but you have to trust Radford

Mickey Paea has raised his performances all season Dave, he was almost written off by many early on, but has probably been our best prop all season, his go forward has been great.

Now should we offer him a new deal, I’m with ccs on this, another year would be good, but perhaps he’s not going to get one, as we look to change our pack.

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:27 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Para has had a good season, apart from the first couple of games I'll wouldn't keep him though, I'd rather keep Green, but you have to trust Radford

Indeed, have to trust in Lee.

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:27 pm  

Can see him getting another year.
Think he’d do okay with added grunt around him

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 8:19 pm  

hull2524 wrote:

As a matter of interest who do you think has been our best prop

Chris Green since he is back to full fitness

Re: Recruitment 2020 : Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:37 pm  

The only way I see paea getting another year is if he's cheap and we've had to go for him to get fonua and its meant we've dropped interest in a better prop.

He's been better of late but we really need 2 new props who put in more work and can get us on the front foot. taylor has been way below par in recent games and bowden still getting back to fitness. As has been said, green has been our best but we need 1 big prop for impact who can come on and change a game and one with a high workrate who consistently knocks out 120m+ a game. If we had that we'd get more out of taylor