The fact he is out now is completely irrelevant to signing Luauki for NEXT season. Hock will probably miss one game as I think one friendly can be used to reduce a ban, two at most.29wes28 wrote:Hock has the sheer size but we are lacking it now because of his ban,
Luauki is 27 and has been poor for Hull. That is a fact. We should not be signing players of that age in the hope we may be able to coach them to be better players. It really is that simple.IMO Luaki is a hell of a way in front of Feka, was Feka properly coached yes for 1 season and why didnt we keep him after that season because the coach thought he wernt good enough, why is Pryce on loan hmm because the coach must think hes not good enough! If the coach wants Luaki he must think he is good enough!
If we are wanting to sign a 27 year old forward it should be because he is demonstrably a good player who can add something to the side. Not someone who has looked poor all season for his current club we are going to take a punt on hoping he might be able to come good.
So it passed you buy that the point of mentioning those two was to show that it is not guaranteed that the coaching at Wigan will turn poor players into good ones? Do I really have to spell that out?I have never agreed with Pryce but incidentally do either of the 2 you mentioned play 2nd row
I read your post all right and I happen to disagree with what you posted. The main point of my reply was to show you that it is not guaranteed that the coaching at Wigan will turn poor players into good ones and so that is no justification for signing a player that has looked poor.I wish you would read carefully before replying for the sake of it, Farrell and Tuson are small 2nd rows Hoff is leaving H is ok but has maxxed his frame IMO so he will get no bigger Hock is big and so is Joel but as it stands hes a centre so IMO we could use another big 2nd row in our ranks next year! I think Luaki fits that bill if you dont thats fine we could look for someone else but we need an addition. Or buy a quality centre and move Joel back to 2nd row????
If you want to make a case for another 2nd row being recruited feel free but that doesn't mean it should be Luauki.
Personally I'd rather us recruit a centre and move Joel back to the pack. That makes far more sense to me.