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Exeter Chiefs and England A star Rusi Tuima will add his considerable physical presence to Newcastle Red Bulls’ forward pack in the summer when he arrives on a two-year deal.
Great Signing this 👏 👏 👏
 
Rus Tuima confirmed to be joins Newcastle next season.

Quite sad about this one.
Feel like he never really pushed on with his size etc considering Exeter usually produce some meaty hard working forwards.

Will be interesting to see how he develops there (if at all).
 
So potential Falcons 1XV looking like
1.
2. McGuigan
3.
4. Tuima
5. Molina
6. Graham
7. Christie
8. Sototu
9. Bentitz-Cruz
10.
11.
12. Arnold
13.
14.
15. Hodge
Usher will be in contention fopr the lock spots. Hes been seriously impressive this season.

Im not sure the Graham rumour will come to much. We have Lockwood who i rate highly, we have Gordon, Mafi, Leatherbarrow finally showing his potential and a number of high potential academy lads. Plus Neild and Lee Warner the Aussie lock / 6
 
Yeah. I think it’s a decent signing but not a wow one.
Thats the key part. Its not about wow signings its about the right ones. We have lacked some serious power and grunt. The pack too often has been over powered, quite easily if we're honest. They're addressing that now, to go with our very good more mobile players.

If we can do to Tuima, what Saracens did to Skelton (ie really get him fit and conditioned) then he could be a gem of a signing.
 
EMM is a pretty much a par for course Falcons signing I feel like

All depends on if he is viewed as depth only.

Graham and Quirke (for those 2 games in a row twice a season) are good ones though
EMM just feels a bit meh...no better than what we have (IMO)

Quirke...hell of a talent but injury prone to death....i thought we'd done signing players like this as the policy hasnt worked over the last 10 years we've been doing it.
 

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