Tigers rumoured to sign Dragons Luciano Leilua

[avocadoontoast]

@weststigers if he responds to Madge coaching style and he could get fit, he would be scary. Big powerful skillful and athletic.
Still this was reported by the mole, hopefully he got this one right

Why is there always this talk about 'if Madge gets him fit'? Why do you want to make him smaller? His biggest attribute is his size and his ability to bust tackles, why do you want to take that away? Seems stupid. Leave him the way he is.

Why does he have to lose size to be fit?

Why is he unfit now? He doesn't seem to be unfit when i've seen him play. he has the same body shape as his brother.

 

[WeHaveCheeKam]

Good signing, won't break the bank. Can't compare this to signing Arrow when Arrow will cost 3x more.

 

[Roar_Power]

@TJ21 You can get fitter without having to get smaller.

 

[TJ21]

@Roar_Power totally agree mate thats my point. Just needs the miles in his legs.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Big Lucy come on down

I prefer Fat Lucy ?
He'll give us a something different off the bench to our other forwards.

Agree, has a nice skillset. Like the signing if true.

Little Lucy has a nice ring to it too as @old_man_tiger just mentioned.

what about LOL

Luciano Ogre Leilua?

 

[WT2K]

@weststigers if he responds to Madge coaching style and he could get fit, he would be scary. Big powerful skillful and athletic.
Still this was reported by the mole, hopefully he got this one right

Why is there always this talk about 'if Madge gets him fit'? Why do you want to make him smaller? His biggest attribute is his size and his ability to bust tackles, why do you want to take that away? Seems stupid. Leave him the way he is.

Why does he have to lose size to be fit?

Why is he unfit now? He doesn't seem to be unfit when i've seen him play. he has the same body shape as his brother.

Yea, not sure why folks are saying unfit. Mainly used as an interchange. Of the games he started -

R15 - 20mins (hia/injury perhaps)
R16 - 64 mins - 101 metres
R22 - 80mins - 112 metres
R23 - 70mins -. 107 metres
R24 - 72mins -. 151 metres

Has a tackle efficiency of 90.4%

 

[weststigers]

@weststigers if he responds to Madge coaching style and he could get fit, he would be scary. Big powerful skillful and athletic.
Still this was reported by the mole, hopefully he got this one right

Why is there always this talk about 'if Madge gets him fit'? Why do you want to make him smaller? His biggest attribute is his size and his ability to bust tackles, why do you want to take that away? Seems stupid. Leave him the way he is.

Why does he have to lose size to be fit?

Why is he unfit now? He doesn't seem to be unfit when i've seen him play. he has the same body shape as his brother.

You can always be fitter 😉

 

[Russell]

Hope it is true - I rate Little Lucy quite high.

He would be even better if Madge gets hold of him.

 

[Spartan117]

@weststigers if he responds to Madge coaching style and he could get fit, he would be scary. Big powerful skillful and athletic.
Still this was reported by the mole, hopefully he got this one right

Why is there always this talk about 'if Madge gets him fit'? Why do you want to make him smaller? His biggest attribute is his size and his ability to bust tackles, why do you want to take that away? Seems stupid. Leave him the way he is.

AVO,

I think its more about getting more consistent high performance and minutes out of a player than anything else.

I heard is somewhere that Madge likes his bigger / Skillful players

 

[Balmainbred]

Nothing from the club about this.

 

[Spartan117]

Why is he unfit now? He doesn't seem to be unfit when i've seen him play. he has the same body shape as his brother.

Yea, not sure why folks are saying unfit. Mainly used as an interchange. Of the games he started -

R15 - 20mins (hia/injury perhaps)
R16 - 64 mins - 101 metres
R22 - 80mins - 112 metres
R23 - 70mins -. 107 metres
R24 - 72mins -. 151 metres

Has a tackle efficiency of 90.4%

Thanks for this Avo, Thats some good numbers and now even more confirms that this would be a very good get for the Tigers.

 

[Nelson]

Good signing, won't break the bank. Can't compare this to signing Arrow when Arrow will cost 3x more.

Arrow also plays lock or prop and probably wouldn't be used on an edge, whereas Leilua, who played right edge for the Dragons, would be a direct replacement for Matterson on the right edge.

 

[Spud_Murphy]

@weststigers if he responds to Madge coaching style and he could get fit, he would be scary. Big powerful skillful and athletic.
Still this was reported by the mole, hopefully he got this one right

Why is there always this talk about 'if Madge gets him fit'? Why do you want to make him smaller? His biggest attribute is his size and his ability to bust tackles, why do you want to take that away? Seems stupid. Leave him the way he is.

Why does he have to lose size to be fit?

Why is he unfit now? He doesn't seem to be unfit when i've seen him play. he has the same body shape as his brother.

Yea, not sure why folks are saying unfit. Mainly used as an interchange. Of the games he started -

R15 - 20mins (hia/injury perhaps)
R16 - 64 mins - 101 metres
R22 - 80mins - 112 metres
R23 - 70mins -. 107 metres
R24 - 72mins -. 151 metres

Has a tackle efficiency of 90.4%

Can’t complain about that! Great pick up if true, plus he’s big and scary! Haven’t had anyone big and scary in the pack since Taupau left.

 

[Spartan117]

**Link to Original Post Added Here ->>

https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/nrl-news-the-mole-wests-tigers-sign-luciano-leilua/fd1b6c6c-8770-4817-b8c5-3b4136565d7d**

 

[Jimmy]

I've changed my mind on this signing, i don't actually think we need arrow, as I feel arrow and twal are very similar, however if we still were able to nab Brown our second row would be awesome....Garner, Leilua, Brown, MCK (bench)..depth Huth, Lawernce, ET, Mcqueen

 

[WT2K]

@weststigers if he responds to Madge coaching style and he could get fit, he would be scary. Big powerful skillful and athletic.
Still this was reported by the mole, hopefully he got this one right

Why is there always this talk about 'if Madge gets him fit'? Why do you want to make him smaller? His biggest attribute is his size and his ability to bust tackles, why do you want to take that away? Seems stupid. Leave him the way he is.

Why does he have to lose size to be fit?

Why is he unfit now? He doesn't seem to be unfit when i've seen him play. he has the same body shape as his brother.

Yea, not sure why folks are saying unfit. Mainly used as an interchange. Of the games he started -

R15 - 20mins (hia/injury perhaps)
R16 - 64 mins - 101 metres
R22 - 80mins - 112 metres
R23 - 70mins -. 107 metres
R24 - 72mins -. 151 metres

Has a tackle efficiency of 90.4%


Can’t complain about that! Great pick up if true, plus he’s big and scary! Haven’t had anyone big and scary in the pack since Taupau left.

Loves a tackle break too. Usually 1 a game. Against the Sharks in R22 he had 7 ?

 

[tigerking]

Good signing, always looks dangerous & is a sizeable unit, welcome to the jungle Luciano!

 

[yeti]

I like the signing. "Lucky Luciano" - has a gangster ring to it!

 

[Geo]

The Pavaroti of centres

 

[bptiger]

would be happy to nab his brother as the raiders would be paying some of his wages for next year. I know he can give away some penalties but he is what we need a big body who can break the line.