Dan played several games for Wakey 20's on a months contract but nobody contacted him after so he went to Salford. His first game was at Wakefield and there was a few surprised faces when he showed up with the Reds.

Well, there goes another one of the "we must sign 20 speedy wingers now" brigade's great white hopes...

Not necessarily. Many a young player leaves the club they were at initially and goes on to become good at another club. He may still make it in Super League, only time will tell.

Another angle on it is that maybe our coaching isn't good enough? We've not produced a decent winger since Alan Hunte.

Did we really? Blimey. Then when did we last produce a decent winger?

Good question, although I have pretty high hopes for Tom Makinson in time.

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Possibly. He's not threatening to rise above 'solid' as yet though. Despite his apparent pace, he doesn't seem to be a threat to the opposition.

I think some have read this and not got the gist. I'm pretty sure Northampton was trying to be sarcastic about some peoples desperate pleas for yet another speedy winger. I don't think he was endorsing it....

Les Jones.

He was also big and the reports often had him scoring from high kicks. He must have had some serious holes in his game to detract from his plus points.

To be honest ,Wing is probably the one position that you can get through on natural ability and speed, theres probbaly less coaching goes into 'producing' a winger than any other position...Martin Offiah being the obvious example

It might help if he got some bloody ball. Saints aren't exactly great at setting the right hand wingers free at present are they?

A sign of a lack of confidence in Shenton perhaps? The ball isn't going down that side at all.