Mark O'Meley
Date of Birth : 22 May, 1981
Height : 180 cm
Weight : 108 kg
Position : Front Row
Rep. Honours : Tonga Captain
Junior Clubs : Northern Lakes
Previous Clubs : North Sydney Bears 1999
Northern Eagles 2000-01
Canterbury Bulldogs 2002-07
FG Debut : Norths v Wests - 7 March 1999 (round 1)
Club Debut : Rabbitohs v Roosters - 14 March 2008 (round 1)

has been told he can can look for a superleague contract. Worth a go?

Maybe as a direct replacement for Cayless, but in truth, we have some great prospects in the academy and in the reserves for the prop position.

But are they big enough?
I know this lad isn't tall (about 5'11" in old money) but at 17st he could be just what we need to take some pressure off Jammer

NO.

YES.

Would be big money. He is on big coin back home $350k a year.
I didnt know he was the Tongan Captain, presumed he was full blown white aussie mongrel. Not sure we need this mucker in our camp, defo been a good forward, but would like someone like Dave Ferriol, who would cost buttons.

But he smell of garlic and eats snails

He's not for me thanks.

Shrek

Get him signed, he can stay in Cayless house..

Deal done i'll ring Mr Chairman

YES

Because when we use Frodsham he gets flattened every time


Even O'loughlin owned him at the DW stadium FFS

YES YES and YES again. Great player.

As long as he doesnt demand a massive sackfull of cash, which I'm sure some SL clubs would defo offer him.

I think we could get a player that could do just as good a job for less money.

Ferriol would be great, but his contract runs until the end of 2010.

Like others have suggested, too expensive for a prop. Better to import from Australia in problem positions were there is a lack of quality in England.

Save the pennies for Jamie Lyon

Not so long ago there were people on here advocating that we sign Tim Smith and Ben Black...

A great physical old school prop.

In reality we are not just one prop short at the moment we are 2 or 3 props short.

James Graham is the only guy we have that looks like an international for us at the moment.

Hargreaves is a good worker but is not good enough to be a number 2 prop. Good squad fodder.

Maurie has lacked his impact this season. He would benefit from a good signing to take the workload off him if he is expected to recover some form.

Cayless seems to have one foot on the plane back home.

Frodsham looks good but is a year off being strong enough to play week in week out.

Emmitt and Yate are untried.

Tony P and Clough are second rows who are poorly used as props.

Shrek is a good signing in my eyes.

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 31,00.html It says he is stuggling with the quick play of the balls. As we are slowing them down over here he should have no problems.

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 31,00.html It says he is stuggling with the quick play of the balls. As we are slowing them down over here he should have no problems.

Ferriol is a great player. But he is not a young man and has previous drugs bans.

I dont think we are going to get a big, hard running prop for pennies, the front row is a vital part of any attack and we must have squillions left under the cap after the departures last year

Good post.
-We have Graham who's a top prop.
-We have Fa'as who is more effective in short bursts and isn't really solid enough to start.
-We have Hargreaves, who is an admirble performer and is good squad cover, but doesn't have the ability we require in a starting prop.
-We have Clough, who's efforts are fantastic and is capable of being pushed into the front row when needed, but should remain a back row for the next few years at least.
-We have Puletua, who's awesome, but in a perfect world would be used as a back row in our squad.
-We have Cayless, who is ready for the glue factory.

We're in a funny place I think - if Graham got injured, we'd be absolutely screwed, but if we added just one top prop (be it O'Mealy, Luke Bailey or someone similar) I think we'd be [iextremely[/i hard to beat.

Starting props
Graham and Bailey/O'Mealey with a back row of clough, wilkin and flanders
Bench
Roby, Faas, Puletua, and an other.

Oh, and props are definatley worth spending the money on.

maurie has possibly been our best prop recently. Good go forward and playing longer stints than he is used to. Clough and tony p can cover prop no problem i dont know why you say poorly. O meley is overrated in my opinion but does like to mix it up which i think we could with.

I know back in 2004ish he was very highly rated, but I think his wage demands shot up (if i'm not mistaken) when he hawked himself around. If he's still making those demands and not performing the same, then steer clear.

I think a good, without being great prop would suffice and not cost us the earth. I'm a big fan of L Burgess, but would assume he's not available. What's Mace the Ace up to these days? It would mean releasing Hargreaves though for squad space (don't tell ski). When's his contract up?

Justin Poore
Date of Birth : 26 January, 1985
Height : 188 cm
Weight : 108 kg
Position : Front Row
Rep. Honours : Australian Schoolboys 2002
Junior Clubs : Helensburgh Tigers
FG Debut : v Canberra, Oki Jubilee Stadium, 14/3/04 (Rd 1)
Club Debut : v Canberra, Oki Jubilee Stadium, 14/3/04 (Rd 1)

Is availiable at the end of the season, but i think will want to fight for rep. honours in oz

Get him signed. An awesome player!

Jeez, I thought we'd signed one then, you mistitling fools had me excited.

Anyway, O'Meley seems like just another anonymous NRL random. If he's struggling with the NRL, we certainly don't want to take him on do we.