Transfers rumours

[cyRil]

With his "Bad Boy" history with the Scarlets over the years. Need I mention the side billboard incident??

One of the best moments ever.

 

[coonor]

http://mobi.iafrica.com/rugby/ireland-nab-another-sa-player/

Not sure if it's been confirmed but it appears that Leinster have signed a second row! Don't know anything about him.....

 

[TRF_heineken]

http://mobi.iafrica.com/rugby/ireland-nab-another-sa-player/

Not sure if it's been confirmed but it appears that Leinster have signed a second row! Don't know anything about him.....

His name is Quinn Roux

a very talented prospect, many tipped him to be the next Victor Matfield, and before his injury in the beginning of the year, was selected ahead of Eben Etzebeth for the Stormers. Has very good ball skills for a second rower...

 

[dullonien]

One of the best moments ever.

Not sure I'd call it best, but quite an interesting moment anyway. That grey hair he had going on at the time really makes for a double whammy. Still, he was bloody good back then, although Swansea couldn't decide which position to play him in, 10, 12, 15, wing and back again.

That Rheon James is a bloody monster! Duck, don;t forget North in your thigh size comparisions:

Always notice the difference between the size of North's thighs in comparison to Cuthberts. Both are similar builds, but Cuthberts legs look spindly compared to North's.

 

[psychic duck]

One of the best moments ever.

Not sure I'd call it best, but quite an interesting moment anyway. That grey hair he had going on at the time really makes for a double whammy. Still, he was bloody good back then, although Swansea couldn't decide which position to play him in, 10, 12, 15, wing and back again.

That Rheon James is a bloody monster! Duck, don;t forget North in your thigh size comparisions:

Always notice the difference between the size of North's thighs in comparison to Cuthberts. Both are similar builds, but Cuthberts legs look spindly compared to North's.

Yes North's is huge, his are twice the size of all the Italians on that photo. If the Scarlets bring back Ajuwa (who is one of London Welsh's top try scorers), then alongside North, Rheon James, Jonathan Davies and North that backline would be huge.

 

[SelimNiai]

Forgot about that horror show of a barnet. Looked like someone superglued a mop to his head

 

[Draggs]

I know its the Turks, but even they would not bring Ajuwa back so that they could have a beefy thighs contest.
Unless that is their plan to lure Henson over.

Also, Leigh Davies, so much potential, another wasted centre.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

His name is Quinn Roux

a very talented prospect, many tipped him to be the next Victor Matfield, and before his injury in the beginning of the year, was selected ahead of Eben Etzebeth for the Stormers. Has very good ball skills for a second rower...

I'm very upset about Leinster signing Roux. My prefered 2nd row would be 4 Etzebeth, 5 Roux with an out-of-sorts and strugling-with-injury Bekker on the bench. So this makes for the 2nd extremely highly rated SA player signed by an Irish club in a short while- the other being CJ Stander. Who's next? Johan Goosen? SARU has to be smart and help our clubs secure the services of guys that aren't for sure starting yet but are quality youngsters and will be regular fictures in 1/2 years time. I'd seriously consider some sort of cenral contracting by SARU in order to secure players such as the 3 mentioned and others like Marcell van der Merwe, Piet van Zyl, Pat Cilliers, Pieter du Toit, Philip van der Walt, Jan Serfontein.. well the list goes on. Kolisi will probably also fall in that category once Burger and Vermeulen are fit.

Damned, Irish clubs!

 

[Draggs]

Roux is only on a one-year deal, bru.
He will be back with only possibly the slightest hint of an Irish accent.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Roux is only on a one-year deal, bru.
He will be back with only possibly the slightest hint of an Irish accent.

That's good news at least. I hope both him and Stander both come back to stake their claim. Roux could easily break into the Bokke if he gets regular game time and manages to do on a bigger stage what he has for the Vodacom cup sde. Probably it's my Boer paranoia but that IRU 'project player' thing has me concerned.

 

[Feicarsinn]

That's good news at least. I hope both him and Stander both come back to stake their claim. Roux could easily break into the Bokke if he gets regular game time and manages to do on a bigger stage what he has for the Vodacom cup sde. Probably it's my Boer paranoia but that IRU 'project player' thing has me concerned.

In fairness, there has yet to be one 'project player' who has played for the national team. While I have no doubt that Sander and Roux are excellent prospects, we do have a good bit of talent coming through in the back 5, so hopefully they wont go on to represent Ireland.

With regard to Roux, what sort of player is he? Ideally he'd supply a bit of grunt as Devin Toner is fantastic at the line out, but a bit light around the field.

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

In fairness, there has yet to be one 'project player' who has played for the national team. While I have no doubt that Sander and Roux are excellent prospects, we do have a good bit of talent coming through in the back 5, so hopefully they wont go on to represent Ireland.

With regard to Roux, what sort of player is he? Ideally he'd supply a bit of grunt as Devin Toner is fantastic at the line out, but a bit light around the field.

Fair enough. Like I said, it's probably a mixture of my paranoia and seeing a player I saw as a big prospect for my club laeve. Hopefully he'll come back a little bit better off.

Hmm, Roux is very much an all-rounder type of player. I can't say he'd comfortably mix it up with the likes of say Bakkies Botha, Brad Thorn, O'Conell etc but he certainly isn't a lightweight. I see him as more of an athletic type though like say, Lawes from England. He gets round the park and gets through a lot of work in both attack and defense. He'll probably look to offload or keep the ball alive rather than smash someone. He does have amazing ball skills for a lock.

He's been immense in the 2nd tier competition for WP- a star player along with our young loose forwards- and when he came on for the Stormers against the Bulls his pass put Kolisi away for the match winning try.

 

[Feicarsinn]

Fair enough. Like I said, it's probably a mixture of my paranoia and seeing a player I saw as a big prospect for my club laeve. Hopefully he'll come back a little bit better off.

Hmm, Roux is very much an all-rounder type of player. I can't say he'd comfortably mix it up with the likes of say Bakkies Botha, Brad Thorn, O'Conell etc but he certainly isn't a lightweight. I see him as more of an athletic type though like say, Lawes from England. He gets round the park and gets through a lot of work in both attack and defense. He'll probably look to offload or keep the ball alive rather than smash someone. He does have amazing ball skills for a lock.

He's been immense in the 2nd tier competition for WP- a star player along with our young loose forwards- and when he came on for the Stormers against the Bulls his pass put Kolisi away for the match winning try.

Sounds workable. It's nice to hear he's got a good offloading game, our game is very much 15 man rugby so everyone is expected to be able to play.

As for him only being on a one year contract, well that could be one of two things. Either he wants to get out and see a bit of the world before having a serious go at getting into the Boks squad or Leinster don't want to overcommit after the Steven Skyes fiasco. Either way, the lad will be expected to work his socks off.

 

[Draggs]

Sounds workable. It's nice to hear he's got a good offloading game, our game is very much 15 man rugby so everyone is expected to be able to play.

As for him only being on a one year contract, well that could be one of two things. Either he wants to get out and see a bit of the world before having a serious go at getting into the Boks squad or Leinster don't want to overcommit after the Steven Skyes fiasco. Either way, the lad will be expected to work his socks off.

Speaking of Sykes... how would you like a free second row?!

 

[Feicarsinn]

Speaking of Sykes... how would you like a free second row?!

Eh, you're all right. What a useless bugger. Worst signing since Owen Finnegan.

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

In fairness, there has yet to be one 'project player' who has played for the national team.

True, nobody brought in under this scheme has played for the national team but quite a few foreign players have ended up playing for the national team. Kurt McQuilkin, Mike Mullins and Andy Ward come to mind immediately while Andrew Farley and Brett Wilkinson have both played for the A team.

As far as I know, this is the list of "Project Players" brought in by Irish provinces:
Mike Kingsbeer
Jeremy Manning
Peter Borlase
CJ Stander
Dan Roach
Robbie Diack
Jared Payne
Richardt Strauss
Steven Sykes
Quinn Roux
Danie Poolman

It's too early to tell what sort of impact Roux, Poolman and Stander will have while Payne has been injured for most of his time here. Sykes, Roach, Borlase and Kingsbeer never amounted to anything. Diack is a solid squad player with Ulster. Manning was okay for Munster and played for Ireland A. So far, only Strauss looks like being a worthwhile investment. He'll almost certainly be capped next season and will probably be Rory Best's primary backup.

 

[Peat]

One for Olyy - Cips has tweeted that Sale have signed Sam Tomkins.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Presumably a joke as he recently signed on again with Wigan, love it though just because I'm now going to go on the Wigan Warriors fan forum and read them all having heart attacks/cursing Union.

 

[Thingimubob]

Rugby league forums worry me with how one eyed and bitter some are towards union! The threads I saw after Tomkins played for the baabaas just bemused me

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[Peat]

Apparently Tomas Vallejos from Quins to Scarlets.