keep in mind that at the time of signing Ava there was far less depth and certainty in our forwards stocks going into season 2018, in fact we were looking genuinely light on for cattle
Latimore, our resident bench plodder was gone, Hino moved on as was Taga and Trex broke his arm and hadn't worked out for us. We had yet to debut the likes of Uele and Jack Williams so they were an unknown first grade wise for us. Woods had not yet signed with us either.
Flanno had to buy some pigs and Ava gave us some good service in return, through no fault of his own finds himself without a NRL club