Hull Daily Mail confirms that Iafeta Paleaaesina has signed a two year deal at Hull FC.

He is quoted as saying that it's a great opportunity to be back at the top level. Apparently he was apporoached directly by Adam Pearson.

He'll start the French season this month but be at Hull in November for pre-season training.

Paleaaesina was let go from Salford; a team struggling. Anyone else remember how big he was? it says on the HDM website he's trained and got himself back into great shape. I hope so; a fit Paleaasina is a big physical presence even if a bit of a weakness in a defensive line. Hopefully it's a cheap risk worth taking. Fit, he adds some bosh!

Welcome big fella, hope you rip it up for us!!

Let's hope we have a couple of good quality signings to go alongside feka and thompson

[url=http://www.hullfc.com/article/30785/hull-secure-prime-paleaaesinaOfficial[/url

Good signing.


In 2006.

Time will tell, if reports are correct he is in good shape & playing some good rugby & I reckon we ain't paid over the odds. It could have been worse though we could have signed one of the highest paid forwards from the NRL & being let down, I wonder how moobs Clinton is doing

Lets keep this on topic and ignore the trolls

My posting history will show I'm no troll.

It just seems a strange signing for any SL club, let alone one with top 4 aspirations.


Imagine the pillocking we would take had we signed him!

It'll sit well with all those who were telling us about Gentle's lightweight mobile pack theory.
Okaaaay!

Let's be honest, if rovers had signed him we'd be laughing our teets off

Could be worse.

Cracking signing,a bit disappointed we only gave him a two year deal,but at least hull fought off all the competition for his signature.
Adam keep up the good work, and with the signing of jordan thompson those season passes must be flying off the shelves.

Unbelievable signing!!!

120k rings a bell.

Exactly.

From the Hull FC website, they state ' one of Super League's all-time great impact players' and wait for this one ......

'the Black and Whites have swooped to land Paleaaesina in what[u could potentially be the signing of 2014.[/u

Ill reserve judgement though cant say im overly enthused. Gentle is obviously trying to sort out our lack of grunt up the middle and with the state of the game and the fact that if your decent you go to Oz its obvious clubs need to look outside the box ie Wigan and Powell and now us with the Feka and poss Biggs. It may work, it may not, only tiem will tell

Plenty slagged off Goldie and got egg on thier faces, lets give him a chance. At his best he was a great impact player, something we have been lacking, and if fit and hungry could be a good addition to complement our young forwards coming through.

Great post. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen him play a competitive game. He was a great impact prop and if he stays fit and injury free could well prove to be a shrewd signing.

When did Rule the spinmeister rejoin!

Maybe he'll flog off more of our youth!!

You can tell clarky writes all of the copy for the website. It's embarrassing and he has a very limited vocabulary so you just get the same stuff regurgitated time after time

Plenty slagged of Johnson and were right

Oh dear. Oh deary deary me.

Do you mean like when lots of us "slagged off" the signings of Galea, Johnson, Crookes to name a few?

A bit of a random signing for you guys.

Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere but I presume he wouldn't count on either quota as he's played in SL prior to 2008.