Finally some good news from the Giants for a change. Rapira has tweeted this morning his scans are clear. Hopefully this means he will be back sooner rather than later.

That indeed is good news, He is turning out to be one of our better buys.

Our best forward by a country mile

Even better news he's tweeted if he gets through this weeks training he will be playing Thursday!

Good to not have more issues in the front row, but as for Rapira being our best forward - not for me, not saying he is a bad player but not special, very good when we have the ball, ok in defence but not a dominant force.

doing the prop work on his won , played every game! and we were worried about him being injury prone, hats of to the guy never takes a backward step, would love to see him helped out when smith and huby are back with ikahihfo

Who has been better? A very consistent player, he knows what a quick play of the ball is, is rarely pushed back as he runs harder than any other prop on impact and is difficult to put down. First full season back after a serious injury he's been extremely good in my view. I'd go as far as to say my POS so far.

Lawrence has been our best forward by a mile. Ta'ai was our best ball carrier but has now developed the drops. I also thought Johnson was our best prop on thursday. All in my opinion and sure plenty will disagree.

Rapira is not the problem neither is he special imo, but as Brearley says he has had to do more than anticipated and will be better with Huby and Ikahihifo in the team.

With Smith to come back as well I think we will be ok come the middle 8s.

I do hope the new coach brings his own conditioner as quite simply the players fitness is not good enough, I believe we are the least fit team in the competition.

Who is this other dominant force we have in the pack ?
Who else is as consistent as he is /
He gets better pubs than any other giant forward ?
Who else has had the appearances we have had /

He is head and shoulders above any forward we have and has the class that the others should aspire to.

What matches has he dominated?

I was actually referring to dominant defence, which is pretty clear if you understand English. Our dominant force in defence would be Michael Lawrence.

You want to see a dominant prop look at what Fafita did to us on Thursday, even though he is a bit on the heavy side. Rapira has never had that impact on any game for us, happy to have him in our squad, but you are kidding yourself if you think he is one of the best props in super league, and that is the standard we should be aspiring to.

You may have noticed Michael Lawrence is one of the best defenders in Super League.

Your original comment can be read both ways. You should practice your English.


He is the best prop WE have which is all that matters now.

don't agree with you about Lawrence either. Solid but not spectacular or dominant. Not like Ellis at Hull or Westwood used to be.
Very rarely takes downs man by himself. Now that is dominant.

Fafita had a great game no denying it, if he does that every week then great, but l doubt he will. Rapira is a very very consistent performer. He'll rarely catch the eye but just you spend a couple of matches watching him, you'll see.