vastmanTrojan Horse:
A few SL clubs in for Tom Amone.
I do hope we are one of them as he’s a good player.
Keep adding a couple of real quality players and retain those playing well and the skys the limit.
He would be a top addition, even though I'm really happy with where we are with our middles going forward and I think the unit is only gonna get stronger and stronger year on year, especially with the addition of Smoothy next season. With Smoothy coming next season, we've got one quota player to release or not extend already, who else would we release to get another overseas in? Also, is Prop a place where we'd put another overseas player, or are we confident in the group we've assembled having a high ceiling that they can reach together, see as our middles average in their early 20's
I think it's a hard one at this stage because you don't want to drop someone for next season so early, to get a signature, but if you don't, you'll miss out. The guys I'd be looking at are Walmsley, just down to a simple reason, there are a number of good homegrown wingers, which is most probably how we're looking to get Smoothy in.
The one other candidate for moving on is Faaitili, mainly because we only committed to him for a year. However, I really like the lad, considering he dropped off a plane and started playing for us; he has improved consistently. Something he will always miss this season is that intensive pre-season, unlike most of our other guys. Still, he has performed well in the role he's been asked to play as a fourth prop and seems a positive influence on the team. Ideally, I'd like to see him gradually play longer and move to twenty-minute spells to relieve some pressure off Big Mike, but that will probably occur as we reach double digits in games.
If we were interested, and considering this is a cutthroat business, there aren't too many options due to contracts and so forth. Could it be that someone like Atoni is the one to make way, even though he appears to be a different player than the one who last played in Sl, particularly during the first two-thirds of the season?
