Faiumu : Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:38 pm  

Just watched the Fa'alogo try again from last weekend against Cas. Has anyone noticed the pass from Faiumu? His body language and the direction he's looking suggests he's going to use doof as a dummy runner then at the last millisecond pops a short pass to doof sending the defenders totally the wrong way. In the NRL Benji Marshall does it quite a bit and the commentators go mental over his class. It went unnoticed by Eddie and Stevo on Sunday so just thought i'd give a mention to our answer to King Benji. Faiumu take a bow. Still the most underrated player at our club imo.

Re: Faiumu : Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:42 pm  

Agreed !!

Quality player .....an absolute joy to watch !!

Re: Faiumu : Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:43 pm  

It was Fooeys pas that really set up Dodgy's try in the second half. His cut out pass to Leroy created the three on two and then Leroy utilised that to give Dodgy a canter to the line. He's class.

: Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:55 pm  

He steps to the left,
he steps to the right,
David Faiumu,
he makes you look ..... average.

Re: : Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:58 pm  

Wadski wrote:

He steps to the left,
he steps to the right,
David Faiumu,
he makes you look ..... average.

Hey i got copyright on that !!!

Re: Faiumu : Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:31 am  

Liked him from the first game he played with that devastating sidestep but as you state, his ball handling is superb. How many tries have we scored in the last two seasons through him passing the ball out, round a player tackling him?

Re: Faiumu : Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:42 pm  

The pass was pure class, i was just to the left when doof scored and blinked as fooey did his conjuring trick with that pass , i never even saw him look at doof.

Re: Faiumu : Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:26 am  

players like faiumu are often never praised publically by managers but keep getting contract extensions because the managers now what key contributions they make. Faiumu is one of these - rarely puts in a poor display - quitely causes opposition difficulty. Never gets the cheers that erol gets but does equally as much work.

A cheer for faiumu when catalans come ithink is in order

Re: Faiumu : Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:21 am  

top player...and obviously not well thought of by the coaching staff and club being awarded players player last season (think it was) and also he was next in line after kevin brown for the team captaincy

Re: Faiumu : Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:34 pm  

I hold my hands up to admit how wrong I was with Fuey.

I used to go crackers with Fuey saying he slowed the passing down and always stepped inside, I was all for letting him go.

How wrong I was, I think it was the court case hanging over him that prevented us seeing the best of him and once that got all sorted he has been on fire.

I have never seen a step like his in playing and watching RL and he is a joy to watch, he creates so much for the Giants and is always in my Giants 17 when trying to 2nd guess NB's team selection.

"Hong Kong Fuey Claret and Gold Superguy"