On for his fourth Challenge Cup Final and likely his seventh Grand Final.

Maybe he's any good after all.

He's certainly good at moving a side around the field. Like any halfback he needs some protection from his pack, something he gets at Wigan and lacked in his latter seasons with us.

Has it ever occured that he WANTED to FINISH HIS CAREER AT HIS HOMETOWN CLUB which is Wigan. We had no choice but to let him go.

Awesome player great guy good on deaks

No, we let one of the best organisers ever (and a mean kicker too) on the spurious grounds that he was too old and finished. Just a difference of opinion between a team that is now a disorganised shambles, and a team which may win all the pots.

But of course if they do, it will be [idespite[/i Deacon, rather than anything to do with him. Just like we managed to overcome the handicap of him playing for so many years of almost unparallelled success.

Good luck Deacs - you deserve it, and you deserved better than you got from us.

Deacs was class for us, despite what tigertot thinks! Although i have to admit that the Wigan pack do make him look better than he would behind our pack!

Seconded.

I'd be happy for Deacs if he rounded off this year with Wigan winning the double. He's been a fantastic servant to our club and was a great leader.

2 years on and we're still struggling to replace him.

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I have always been a fan of Deacon and was sorry to see him leave the club. It's good to see him doing so well now.

i always have and always will be a massive fan of deacs. Was sorry to see him go without playin 1 last game at odsal. yeahh he is playin behind a much harder pack than we could give him at the time especialli. Hope in the future to see the gud man return in some capacity

I thought Deacs was fantastic both on and off the fied for us. He was very underated by many. I wish we had kept him and told Orford to bollox I think this issue is one of the maior reasons we are where we are now.

We could have certainly used him in the last two seasons instead of the headless chickens we have had in place.

I doubt keeping hold of Deacon would have made a huge difference in all honesty. He would have still have been playing alongside some very average backs. Hopefully we will have some improvement in 2012.

Finishing just outside the play offs last year, maybe a "huge" difference was not required. I think his ability to lead a team around the park would have been enough to get us into the play offs last year and I still think he is better than any of our halves this year.