Who is the best Antipodean import to Super League who arrived in 2019?

another troll thread

Yet another thread where you can't vote.

Who cares??? Another pointless thread so that Jean can massage his tiny **** by writing down the full name of ex NRL players.....

Just use the ignore option.

Whilst not criticising the moderation process, wuold't ths ban option save all the hassle.It

's clear this individual has multiple personas, and all are used to troll?

You've missed Luke Yates of there Jean!

Without doubt it has to be you bazza, year after year you come on here and surpass yourself, your silliness just gets dafter, 2 reasons why I didn't vote for you, 1 it's not working and 2 you didn't put your name forward, probably cos your too shy

Can't we just forget that Jacko played a few games in the middle 8's last year and give it straight to Hastings? Seems a no-brainer really.

To say that the list gives a choice on the "best" imports says it all.
I think the thread is a fair indication as to the quality in SL, a very average crop and maybe we should include the imports that are already over here like Pauli Pauli, Dave Fifita and Bill Toupu, all three are better than the names on Jeans list

Coote and Austin by a country mile

Don't be daft wrencat, that wouldn't fit with clown Jeans agenda at all now would it - I thought you knew better





But, I'll humour the idiot and give me honest opinion. Best of the 2019 imports from what I have seen so far, in my opinion, is Lachlan Coote with Blake Austin running a close second.

Didn't think much to Coote the first couple of games I saw of Saints but now he is looking really good. Hes the pick of the bunch for me.

Does Ratu Naulago count? He clearly isn't the best player, but he is probably the best bit of scouting. Holding down a first team place, making positive contributions every week, and will be on a fraction of the money that everyone else mentioned in this thread will be getting. Oh, and because of him serving in the British Army he doesn't even count on the quota.

Him serving in the Army has NOTHING to do with his quota status.

Jean (bazza), can you explain why certain folk can't vote? Is it designed so that those who can't vote reveal who they really choose in their post? because that defeats the whole object the vote. This is not the first time this as happened with you is it?

Being in the army doesn't get you off quota but he has a British passport due to serving in the army doesn't he? Which means the same thing in a roundabout way.

You are correct. And for the record I discovered that I cannot vote either. Nor can Judder Man and I am sure many other members of this forum.

You need to raise this problem with the site Admin. I will too

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I will leave it to you Bazza, seeing it's you who keeps coming up with this balderdash.

No, he wont have a British Passport for serving in the Army, the law doesn't work like that.

FWIW I think he means those signed in 2019, all though all those you mentioned are better than all but Austin they are of an older vintage.

Austin closely followed by Coote. The rest are dog poop

Yes, I knew that.
It's just that the list was so utterly uninspiring and not really worthy of a new thread.
As you say Austin is comfortably the best of that bunch but, as far as Aussie imports go, 2019 must be one of the worst years on record.
Some of those are literally stealing a living and preventing certain clubs from playing their "own" players.

I got some stick for suggesting that he looked unfit and uninterested, albeit in a pre season game but, Uate at Huddersfield has been bloody awful.
Maybe he will improve when he's in better shape but, you have to wonder how he "stole" a contract.

Let’s hope not. Not making excuses but a lot of Aussies do struggle with the weather so we tend not to see the best at first. That said I agree this intake is poor.

What surprises me is people’s surprise. I keep saying this but it breaks no ice with the Aussie groupies on here. There is a reason why most NRL stars go to SL, it’s because they have lost their shine.

There are odd exceptions like Austin but let’s not forget that he’s in an already very able team making him look good.

Worse still is Hurrell who to me is a never was, he’s big and occasionally eye catching but he’s a band average player in truth who’s image has been over egged by Leeds fans and a sycophantic media.

The best long term Aussies are and always have been the point to prove second chance brigade and boy Trinity have done well with those

Jamie Soward has a job commentating on the NSW cup games, and he said the other day that most NSW cup sides would be competitive in the ESL.
He isn't wrong.
I know you have rules that say only players with a certain number of NRL games can get a visa to play, but each year NRL clubs cut 22 and 23 year old players who would be outstanding recruits, and cost half as much as an old guy with 200 NRL games.
In recent years my club has cut Tyler Randall, Pauli Pauli, Luke Yates, Carlos Tuimavae, Jake Mamo, Mitch Garbutt - all guys who managed to get a few games of NRL before being cut - but I can tell you we cut a dozen more who were just as good and never got NRL games to qualify - all would have been young and fit and keen to make a name for themselves.
I've always thought you need to change the rules so you can pick up all the 22 and 23 year olds cut by NRL clubs every year who never quite made firstgrade. Most of them would thrive in your comp, and they have their best years ahead of them.