apart from the fighting I was a bit underwhelmed by his performance to be honest, he spent most of the game out wide as though he was playing centre, when he should have been driving the ball up

i'll give him the benefit of the doubt though, as Agar probably told him to play on the wing or something

He was playing 2nd row for much of the match and IMO looked quite effective running out wide.

I thought he was asking if Radford spoke english!!

Lauaki is more of a ball playing back row forward then a battering ram prop, his main weakness is probably his defence. Was pretty quiet in the first half, but pretty decent second half. If he is anyway near the player he was at the Warriors he'll be a very good signing IMO.

He certainly seems to be a target of a few other clubs when they're playing. We need to play off that as often as possible. He drew in McCarthey-Scarsbrook against Quins, and now Morrison against Bradford. Just the sort of player we need.

Him, Manu and Moa all need to stay. They bring the aggression and back everyone up when needed.

Add to that list O'meley.

Add O'Meley and Fitzbiggon to the list too. For years we have been way too soft in the pack.

Just need a world class half back that can boss us around the field, to compliment Long at 7 and we will be sorted

dont forget a new coach aswell otherwise ur on the ball greeny

good stuff that,i thought it great when silverwood called radford over to talk to him after his try and Radders" said i just warned the kid"silverwood said i called you over to talk to u not for u to talk to me ,that tickled me

How rude to even ask that in the 1st place?

Not really. He might not have spoken English. And if he didn't, what's the point in lecturing him?!

But he fell for it from Radford and made himself look stupid. (And me!)

Hasn't he just had to prove he could to get his visa?

Yep, you do that and see him spend 10 or more minutes on the bench. And thats not subbing.

Thanks for that input. So far it is proved to be total shiite

TBF thats Lauakis 3rd game in a year and he is clearly not fully match fit. However he gives us some impact without a doubt and a nice pair of hands to boot.

Defensively unsure but prob down to fitness and attacking wise 2 of the 3 Briscoe tries in the last 2 games are down to Lauaki.

Think he came on in the second row as King and Moa was the props on the bench.

Wasn't it his long pass to whiting whicj led to briscoe's 2nd try?

Wasted at prop

100% correct mate and like it or not I think our illustrious coach agrees

Does he? He had 2 spells at prop last night and with moa and king possibly leaving he'll get plenty more time there next season

I dont think he was at prop when he released Whiting to draw his man (as I would expect) to release Briscoe. Whatever we think Hame has been used wide out at times so far.

I know he has been used in the 2nd row mainly but currently we have 4 fit props in the squad. Next season we only have:

cusack
dowes
o'meley

As specialist props currently signed up, whereas we have:

tickle
fitz
radford
washy
burnett
manu
lauaki
turner
whiting

who are all considered back rowers

I think fitz, radford and lauaki will spend time at prop

I think it's about players being able to play in different positions to the required standard. Where we fail totally in that is at SO where we have proven to be clueless. Lauaki will be played in the SR next year I believe.

i think Moa will sign.

Moa is a must if Lauaki is going to played in the back row. We need some impact in the props.

i think lauaki is a fat,lazy michael smith who will defo get sent off in the derby when newton runs round him for his hat-trick try!