only 100kg? what is hodgson? he is 102kg not a huge diff
as for your backrow comments creagh, costigan have been on origin along with j smith out for along time. young at hooker. prior out etc. fact is they had dan hunt ahead of him. theres been alot of wraps on green and if he would be picked over paea or not is not questionable because paea has been out injured for a few weeks now and also this green has played well enough to keep his spot one would think. mickey is a much bigger unit then lopini and lopini is 2kg heavier. hardly a huge difference. how you use paea is not the point anyway. we all know that if eastwood and gordon stay paea would be playing a prop role.
Mate I'm not saying Mickey can't play prop, hasn't played prop or couldn't play prop if he came here. What I am saying is that he is more of a second rower and considered a second rower.
Obviously Moore likes second rowers who can play a bit of prop and he's done that with Eastwood. Who knows where he'll fit in?
The point is Hannant, Hodgson, Armit, Stagg, Ryan, Warburton, Eastwood, Gordon are certainly in front of him at this stage and with Hickey, Kite, Harrison and Te Maari still around and the first three still developing and more of them expected, and then youngsters like Taupau and Afu still at the club next year just how much of a role could Paea play and just how much is he needed? Could the money have been better spent elsewhere?
I guess you can never have too much depth but I would have preferred a specialist prop to have been signed instead because Lee T and Harrison are good enough backups outside our top 5 second rowers.
Anyway, he's a solid player and he'll be signed so hopefully he fits in well. Somewhere.
