Tino and Fifita

[Bates]

1. Addin Fonua-Blake
2. Joseph Tapine
3. Payne Hass
4. Tino Fas'asuamaleaui
5. Moe Fotuaika

Interesting.

I have Blake in my top 10.

Tino and JFH equal 1st.

Any Roosters in your top 10?

[BraveTheWorld]

1. Addin Fonua-Blake
2. Joseph Tapine
3. Payne Hass
4. Tino Fas'asuamaleaui
5. Moe Fotuaika

Couldn't not have JFH in mine.
He is their JWH to be honest. He gets the whole pack going and has done for years.
It's hard to quantify players like that, because all the blokes you mentioned would maul him in the stats department, but I don't know. I guess there are additional components that aren't on the stats sheet.

[Headless Chook]

1. Addin Fonua-Blake
2. Joseph Tapine
3. Payne Hass
4. Tino Fas'asuamaleaui
5. Moe Fotuaika

Yeah I love Fonua-Blake too. He has great late footwork and soft hands, can also do the grunt work if required

[HunchoRooster]

I think he's off contract end of 2026

Off contract 2024 with PO for 2025 and 2026 that he is yet to take up.

[Bates]

Off contract 2024 with PO for 2025 and 2026 that he is yet to take up.

Roger that.

[Bates]

Couldn't not have JFH in mine.
He is their JWH to be honest. He gets the whole pack going and has done for years.
It's hard to quantify players like that, because all the blokes you mentioned would maul him in the stats department, but I don't know. I guess there are additional components that aren't on the stats sheet.

JFH is arguably the most important piece to the Panthers puzzle. He drives the pack that allows their halves combo to be so effective.

[bondi.boy]

As soon as I read this in the paper I thought of you BB, bigger faster stronger eh?

lol

You know the 'rules':

. Big is better.
. Bash em, smash em, trash em (legally of course).
. Too big, too strong, too fast.

is how to win games and premierphips.

[Rooster_6]

Couldn't not have JFH in mine.
He is their JWH to be honest. He gets the whole pack going and has done for years.
It's hard to quantify players like that, because all the blokes you mentioned would maul him in the stats department, but I don't know. I guess there are additional components that aren't on the stats sheet.

I don't think he's in JWH's class a pack leader and I don't think he ever has been.

I think he takes too many sub par carries, these days he's turning sideways in to contact and makes minimal post contact metres.

I don't even think he is the best prop at the Panthers, Leota is a beast. Reminds me so much of peak Sam Moa. He along with Collins are the 2 I think are bordering on the top 5.

[BraveTheWorld]

I don't think he's in JWH's class a pack leader and I don't think he ever has been.

I think he takes too many sub par carries, these days he's turning sideways in to contact and makes minimal post contact metres.

I don't even think he is the best prop at the Panthers, Leota is a beast. Reminds me so much of peak Sam Moa. He along with Collins are the 2 I think are bordering on the top 5.

I think you're underrating him pretty heavily, but fair play to your opinion.
I also think he's a very good defender, too.

I was actually also going to mention Leota last post. You're right, he's a complete monster.
I think he was off-contract like last year or possibly the year prior. I suppose he was never leaving the Panthers, but I hope we enquired

[QWERTY]

From the Daily Telegraph


Tino Fa’asuamaleaui has a three-month period to decide his future and one club that will be watching his contract situation closely is the Roosters.

Fa’asuamaleaui and Fifita have a clause in their new contracts that made the pair free agents in the event of coach Justin Holbrook being sacked, which is exactly what happened a fortnight ago.

Under the terms of the clause, it is understood the Queensland Origin duo have three months in which to advise the Titans if they will activate their status as free agents to begin talks with rival clubs.

The good news for the Titans is Big Tino has no interest in playing for most Sydney clubs.

But the one Sydney outfit he has great respect for is the Roosters because of his family links to the Bondi glamour club.

Fa’asuamaleaui’s father Fereti played reserve grade for the Sydney City Roosters in the mid-1990s. Known by his mates as ‘Fred’, Fa’asuamaleaui Snr represented Samoa in league and union and was spotted by legendary Roosters scout Arthur Beetson, who lured him to Bondi.

The Roosters could do with another midfield enforcer as Jared Waerea-Hargreaves inches closer to retirement, but the Titans have the inside running to retain Fa’asuamaleaui.

“His intentions are probably to stay, but he won’t be short of offers and choice of coaches and we will explore that,” said his manager Simon Mammino.

“Tino could have another 10 years at the Titans, he wanted to make the Gold Coast his home, that was his intention, but the sacking of Justin has thrown a spanner in the works.

“Tino came from a premiership-winning club at Melbourne, so we’ll let him play Origin, let the dust settle and sit down with Titans hierarchy and their new coach Des Hasler.”