Official Mawene Hiroti

[Tiger Shark]

Is good depth. The type of guy worth keeping on close to minimum wage. Been around long enough to do a job, which comes in handy.

He can play all backline positions, should keep him around and I’m for promoting juniors and talent more than most people but sometimes you just need that experienced depth player to fill in

 

[puma1355]

He can play all backline positions, should keep him around and I’m for promoting juniors and talent more than most people but sometimes you just need that experienced depth player to fill in

can you believe the guy is only 25 - seems he has been around forever

 

[sharks2010]

We have it doesn’t as a dev player, so hes presumably on absolute minimum wage

Did you just stroke out there bortman

 

[bort]

Did you just stroke out there bortman

We have him down*

But, yes

 

[SF]

A Sharks supporter on Reddit claims we have signed Hiroti for another year:

“In other Sharks news, Hiroti has signed a 1 year extension to the end of next season. Great depth piece for any top 30. NRL experience, cheap, consistently solid when called upon, won’t hold back junior talent. Love it”

https://www.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/1ftiyzo

 

[Proud Shark]

A Sharks supporter on Reddit claims we have signed Hiroti for another year:

“In other Sharks news, Hiroti has signed a 1 year extension to the end of next season. Great depth piece for any top 30. NRL experience, cheap, consistently solid when called upon, won’t hold back junior talent. Love it”

https://www.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/1ftiyzo

A sharks supporter in the signings thread also claims this.

 

[SF]

A sharks supporter in the signings thread also claims this.

Sorry I missed that. Think we need to separate the Sharks signings and all the other random signings

 

[sharkgaz]

A Sharks supporter on Reddit claims we have signed Hiroti for another year:

“In other Sharks news, Hiroti has signed a 1 year extension to the end of next season. Great depth piece for any top 30. NRL experience, cheap, consistently solid when called upon, won’t hold back junior talent. Love it”

https://www.reddit.com/r/nrl/comments/1ftiyzo

Probably only can cover for Centre in the event of injury. I’m pretty sure Stonestreet will be ahead of him if one of our wingers goes down. We also hopefully will have an injury free Dykes to cover in the backline as well

 

[bort]

Probably only can cover for Centre in the event of injury. I’m pretty sure Stonestreet will be ahead of him if one of our wingers goes down. We also hopefully will have an injury free Dykes to cover in the backline as well

He can cover a number of positions - has played 1 to 6 in Cup.
Certainly ideally we don't want him playing most of those at an NRL level, but on min wage or perhaps less not bad value to be
3rd to 5th choice centre (Hiroti Vea'ila Dykes)
4th to 6th choice winger (Hiroti Ison Dykes)
4th to 5th choice fullback (Hiroti Taukamo)

Most of those he's ideally not getting near but if he did we'd be bloody glad to have him. Where he sits in those depth charts also fairly dependent how the youngsters listed are coming along. Ideally they all jump him

 

[CrazyMatt]

Named in the Maoris All Star team. The lone Shark rep. Makes a lot of sense since he probably wont be required in Vegas.

 

[apezza]

Named in the Maoris All Star team. The lone Shark rep. Makes a lot of sense since he probably wont be required in Vegas.

That's fanstatic for Mawene. Gives me a reason to watch it now.

 

[Capital_Shark]

NSW Cup All-Stars

 

[The Punisher]

NSW Cup All-Stars

Yeah definitely
I was expecting Hynes & Nikora to be named, especially since no reported injury and neither named tonight for the trial.

We know Mulitalo, Trindell & Ramien are out with injuries/issues

 

[apezza]

Yeah definitely
I was expecting Hynes & Nikora to be named, especially since no reported injury and neither named tonight for the trial.

We know Mulitalo, Trindell & Ramien are out with injuries/issues

They pulled out due to closeness to Vegas.

 

[bvella]

NSW Cup All-Stars

Need to have this as part of grand final day for players not representing (or something similar), especially with Vegas now in the picture

 

[Capital_Shark]

Need to have this as part of grand final day for players not representing (or something similar), especially with Vegas now in the picture

I have no idea where it’s place is in the calendar. Not even sure it has one.

 

[bort]

Yeah definitely
I was expecting Hynes & Nikora to be named, especially since no reported injury and neither named tonight for the trial.

We know Mulitalo, Trindell & Ramien are out with injuries/issues

We fly to vegas 5 days later. Makes sense to pull everyone in our top 21 or so

 

[Gumby]

Really was hoping someone would sign him and he’d get consistent nrl game time. He’s a pretty good player who should be playing at least 10-12 games a year in first grade.

 

[Sevshark]

Really was hoping someone would sign him and he’d get consistent nrl game time. He’s a pretty good player who should be playing at least 10-12 games a year in first grade.

Same, he's a better player than his place in our depth chart suggests, though it's fantastic for us if a centre goes down.

I feel like he missed quite a lot of last year so might have stopped other clubs from looking at him.

 

[Sparkles]

Same, he's a better player than his place in our depth chart suggests, though it's fantastic for us if a centre goes down.

I feel like he missed quite a lot of last year so might have stopped other clubs from looking at him.

International player and can't get a start!