Mago to Wakefield/Featherstone??
-
- Posts: 1313
- Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:05 pm
Re: Mago to Wakefield
I think lots of us feel that Mago offers something that most of our props don't and that potentially, he has a lot more to offer if he gets fitter. The question is can he? Does he have the discipline/motivation to do it? It's not as if he's a youngster than hasn't had time to learn what it takes to be a professional. He's not a player that played long minutes earlier in his career. He's over in the U.K. because he couldn't get fit enough to hold down a place in the NRL. Why will next season be any different? I don't think anything will change so we need to decide if he's worth keeping on the form that he showed last season. If we have to lose a prop so that we can sign somebody else, I see it as a close-run thing between Mago, Ellis and Singo.
Re: Mago to Wakefield
Re: Mago to Wakefield
For me, it comes down to simple genetics. England doesn't often produce hulking props that have incredible hand skills. Walmsley, Cooper & Thompson are the only ones that come to mind in recent memory & they are/were some of the best in the world for that very reason.southportcdm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:41 pm I think lots of us feel that Mago offers something that most of our props don't and that potentially, he has a lot more to offer if he gets fitter. The question is can he? Does he have the discipline/motivation to do it? It's not as if he's a youngster than hasn't had time to learn what it takes to be a professional. He's not a player that played long minutes earlier in his career. He's over in the U.K. because he couldn't get fit enough to hold down a place in the NRL. Why will next season be any different? I don't think anything will change so we need to decide if he's worth keeping on the form that he showed last season. If we have to lose a prop so that we can sign somebody else, I see it as a close-run thing between Mago, Ellis and Singo.
We realistically cannot replace what he brings from our own academy like we can with Ellis & Singleton.
-
- Posts: 4370
- Joined: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:12 pm
Re: Mago to Wakefield
Thompson and Cooper aren’t big hulking props.wgwr1999 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:49 pmFor me, it comes down to simple genetics. England doesn't often produce hulking props that have incredible hand skills. Walmsley, Cooper & Thompson are the only ones that come to mind in recent memory & they are/were some of the best in the world for that very reason.southportcdm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:41 pm I think lots of us feel that Mago offers something that most of our props don't and that potentially, he has a lot more to offer if he gets fitter. The question is can he? Does he have the discipline/motivation to do it? It's not as if he's a youngster than hasn't had time to learn what it takes to be a professional. He's not a player that played long minutes earlier in his career. He's over in the U.K. because he couldn't get fit enough to hold down a place in the NRL. Why will next season be any different? I don't think anything will change so we need to decide if he's worth keeping on the form that he showed last season. If we have to lose a prop so that we can sign somebody else, I see it as a close-run thing between Mago, Ellis and Singo.
We realistically cannot replace what he brings from our own academy like we can with Ellis & Singleton.
Bomhead - "Lockers to prop."
Re: Mago to Wakefield
I amnathan_rugby wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:23 pmThompson and Cooper aren’t big hulking props.wgwr1999 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:49 pmFor me, it comes down to simple genetics. England doesn't often produce hulking props that have incredible hand skills. Walmsley, Cooper & Thompson are the only ones that come to mind in recent memory & they are/were some of the best in the world for that very reason.southportcdm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:41 pm I think lots of us feel that Mago offers something that most of our props don't and that potentially, he has a lot more to offer if he gets fitter. The question is can he? Does he have the discipline/motivation to do it? It's not as if he's a youngster than hasn't had time to learn what it takes to be a professional. He's not a player that played long minutes earlier in his career. He's over in the U.K. because he couldn't get fit enough to hold down a place in the NRL. Why will next season be any different? I don't think anything will change so we need to decide if he's worth keeping on the form that he showed last season. If we have to lose a prop so that we can sign somebody else, I see it as a close-run thing between Mago, Ellis and Singo.
We realistically cannot replace what he brings from our own academy like we can with Ellis & Singleton.
-
- Posts: 1664
- Joined: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:44 pm
Re: Mago to Wakefield
Tom Burgess says hiwgwr1999 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:49 pmFor me, it comes down to simple genetics. England doesn't often produce hulking props that have incredible hand skills. Walmsley, Cooper & Thompson are the only ones that come to mind in recent memory & they are/were some of the best in the world for that very reason.southportcdm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 12:41 pm I think lots of us feel that Mago offers something that most of our props don't and that potentially, he has a lot more to offer if he gets fitter. The question is can he? Does he have the discipline/motivation to do it? It's not as if he's a youngster than hasn't had time to learn what it takes to be a professional. He's not a player that played long minutes earlier in his career. He's over in the U.K. because he couldn't get fit enough to hold down a place in the NRL. Why will next season be any different? I don't think anything will change so we need to decide if he's worth keeping on the form that he showed last season. If we have to lose a prop so that we can sign somebody else, I see it as a close-run thing between Mago, Ellis and Singo.
We realistically cannot replace what he brings from our own academy like we can with Ellis & Singleton.
-
- Posts: 5110
- Joined: Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:14 pm
Re: Mago to Wakefield
Ah but have you got incredible hand skills?medlocke wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:59 pmI amnathan_rugby wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:23 pmThompson and Cooper aren’t big hulking props.wgwr1999 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:49 pm
For me, it comes down to simple genetics. England doesn't often produce hulking props that have incredible hand skills. Walmsley, Cooper & Thompson are the only ones that come to mind in recent memory & they are/were some of the best in the world for that very reason.
We realistically cannot replace what he brings from our own academy like we can with Ellis & Singleton.![]()

Re: Mago to Wakefield
Finest hands this side of Kirksanton (I am currently in InvernessCharriots Offiah wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 5:09 pmAh but have you got incredible hand skills?![]()

-
- Posts: 6494
- Joined: Sat May 14, 2016 10:54 am
Re: Mago to Wakefield
I’m envious,weather treating you well I hope up there?
I’ve seen sideways snow in October before
