Hope you guys see the good side of Richie, i'm gutted that he's going i think his enthusiasm and defensive awareness will be sorely missed, good luck Richie thanks for the memories and good luck Cas for 2011.

He was class yesterday. Looking forward to seeing him next season.

can not wait to see him play for cas next season.

Will be sorry to see Richie go, but "in Smith we trust". I'm sure he will get a good reception and no barracking when he returns to the HJ with you.

He was awsome at wembley and unlucky to not have the try awarded .
Good luck for the future, you was a great Wire!!!

Great performance by him on Saturday - Warrington's loss will definitely be our gain.

Hope he plays with as much passion and enthusiasm like he for Wire this season.
Was a great career move for him going to the Wolves, he's matured and playing his best rugby, still only 26 too!

He is what we have lacked for a good few years now, Im happy he is on board next year,

anybody pay much attention to mathers last night?

What a terrible performance knocked on leading to them scoring a try with his first touch of the game, failed to stop a barge over despite having support, didnt have to a clue where to be when they kicked it short leading to another try and to top it off sent out the pass to be intercepted and lose them the game.

Got a feeling he is going to cost us alot of games next year.

Why did you choose to post that in this thread? It clearly shows the contrast of how Mathers can have an absolute blinder in a CC final and then have a shocker in another game... like every other player in the league. Christ, if you're worried about inconsistency then I'd be worried about our entire team.

Agree Mathers had a bad shift last night but all player's have them from time to time.

I will rest a little easier next season with him as the last line of defense than Mcgoldrick

In his defence, he only dropped the ball because he had just been smashed in the face by someone's forearm. That's probably why he was still a bit out of sorts when they scored afterwards.

True, he wasn't that great for the rest of the game, but I have seen enough of him this year to say that he will be a damn sight better than McGoldrick, and I'm happy with that.

Good player, on the odd occasion he manages to really stand out for wire n that's not a bad thing for us, better than mcgoldrick for sure but I can't help but feel sorry for Owen, I know coming from injury will be hard but he is a first class fullback and constantly gets played on wing, Amos Roberts this year was amazing at fullback put him on the wing when returning to full fitness and he was woeful quiet all game, people say the positions are similar there not, Owen has too much skill on offer to waste, I just hope we will be trying him in the centres like Leeds did with Lee smith, wing then fullback then centre before his trip to union

Whats wrong with my post? people have put posts up saying that he played well in the cc final i've put this this to balance the argument (could have added the wire v wigan game immediatly after he signed where he also had a terrible game). People seem to think we have signed a cracking fullback when we havent, we've signed a player with the same problems as mcgoldrick in defence with less quality in attack and that worries me.

Owen should be our future at fullback i agree, wasted on the wing, and better than mathers at fullback.