Posted by Eli Stephens on September 26, 2025 at 8:47pm
He's dominating the sharks middles, been best on ground. Unfortunately Storm have a never ending salary cap and he plays with the rest of their representative team 😂
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That's a fair comment you've got to realise when he was here he had to beat out Paulo and RCG who were SoO and internationals at the time also.So while it's all well and good saying we should have kept him but he hasn't produced consistent form for those given years is a tough one.He did nothing at the Tigers nothing at the top level with us and now he's playing for the best coach in the league and the strongest franchise for the last 2 decades they've picked him up at the right time and he's flourishing.
What it really is imo is a guy whose finally mentally and physically matured when he was here he was far from that.
Michael W. > Coryn HughesSeptember 26, 2025 at 10:49pm
Spot on Coryn. We did the right thing, Tigers offered him more than double what we offered, front rowers take time to mature, and he is only going to get better.
Stefano has done fuck all at the storm. Last night he finally has a dig and all of a sudden its back to these blogs...."how did we let Stefano go".
The fact is His father had a fallout with Arthur over the handling of his other son. Stefano was never staying whilst arthur was coach.
Also when arthur was punted Stefano whilst getting chased by dogs and storm was waiting to see who the next eels coach was going to be as he was considering coming back. Obviously that wasn't going to happen as we still had gutho and reg on the books and no cap space.
Eli Stephens > KENDOZASeptember 27, 2025 at 10:49am
It's more we could have brought him back but the Storm who already have like 5 million dollar players got him 😂
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I reckon Stefano had always been way overrated but credit where credits due. He's finally kicked it up a gear since origin this year.
That's a fair comment you've got to realise when he was here he had to beat out Paulo and RCG who were SoO and internationals at the time also.So while it's all well and good saying we should have kept him but he hasn't produced consistent form for those given years is a tough one.He did nothing at the Tigers nothing at the top level with us and now he's playing for the best coach in the league and the strongest franchise for the last 2 decades they've picked him up at the right time and he's flourishing.
What it really is imo is a guy whose finally mentally and physically matured when he was here he was far from that.
Spot on Coryn. We did the right thing, Tigers offered him more than double what we offered, front rowers take time to mature, and he is only going to get better.
I know it's annoying. Tuivati and Talagi hopefully be our props of future.
Stefano has done fuck all at the storm. Last night he finally has a dig and all of a sudden its back to these blogs...."how did we let Stefano go".
The fact is His father had a fallout with Arthur over the handling of his other son. Stefano was never staying whilst arthur was coach.
Also when arthur was punted Stefano whilst getting chased by dogs and storm was waiting to see who the next eels coach was going to be as he was considering coming back. Obviously that wasn't going to happen as we still had gutho and reg on the books and no cap space.
It's more we could have brought him back but the Storm who already have like 5 million dollar players got him 😂
Stefano has been good for Melbourne, his issue always has been consistency.
He won't hit his peak until he's 26/27. But if he keeps playing like he did last night the world's his oyster
Oh certainly. Seems the Melbourne coaching is working. Utoikamanu has the potential to be an Origin starter.