The importance of this signing is only weighted correctly once we know the value of other signings.

If we simply have this fella and Walsh. Then it's a poor turn around.

However, when looking at signings in a capped sport, you have to look at the overall turnover for the year. With wingers I'm not overly concerned we've not had an awesome winger since Darren Albert and still managed to play well.

Wingers are really bottom of my worry list. The trouble with today is that everyone wants the inside info on every signing, 2 months before they happen.

And yet Hudds manage it without having a cack squad , as do Wigan with Charnley , Leeds with Jones -Bishop and Hall etc etc.

so it look like Hudds sign a top winger to be first choice and improve there squad and we sign there 3rd or 4th choice winger to help them free up a crumb of cap space , nothing like scraping the barrell .. great stuff

"world class team for a world class stadium" has never been less apt

Couldn't have put it better myself.

Maybe if we weren't giving Flanagan, Gardner (and Laffranchi?) new contracts we'd be able to bring in more high quality players?

Who is the young forward from Leigh who we are being also linked to?

Hopkins? It's all gone quiet about him, was linked to Wire too.

Just about sums it all up; playing second fiddle to a club which had an average attendance in 2012 of 7709 against ours of over 14,000, although its probably closer for this season.
Perhaps players want to go to clubs that are playing well.

No offence to any of you lot but Dawson is average at best you must have someone in your ranks somewhere who is as good as he is, if not Greg Johnson at Batley would be a far better bet had a few personal problems in the past but seems to have got over them now

I'm sure when Brown and Rush were seen at the Batley game last month, Greg Johnson was mentioned.

However bad you think he is, if he's big and reasonably fast he'll be an improvement on Gardner.
The problem is if we then resign Gardner as well.

Besides, he's being given a second chance to put injury behind him and make it, by a coach that obviously beleves in him. Add to that, its for a big club that is out of sorts and will possibly/probably/hopefully be improving (we can't get worse, surely?), its a chance to really make a mark on the game.

It's like the rumours of re-signing Wello when we know he isnt/wont be first choice fullback and is terrible in every other position. Keeping either or both of these guy's would be an appalling decision

good shout on greg johnson

we all know why he didnt realise his full potential with us!

Sexually assaulting and then almost blinding a woman by glassing her in the face because she rejects your advances isn't a Flipping "personal problem"! And I doubt very much that having that attitude towards women is something he's "got over now" nasty piece of work that we were well rid of.

Sounds like a lovely chap!

With Nathan in charge he has been signed as a Prop :-0)