Andrew Johns at Warrington? Get away!!!

I know, marquee players, they'll never work...honest

Your chairman disagrees, he voted in favour, but what does he know about entertainment and the effects of stardom?

Exactly, people don't want entertainment, they want 5 drives and a kick at Belle Vue under a condemned roof.

Don't forget the mend a hose jungle! It's the future!

He was there!

Yep....he did

I remember the Halliwell Jones being empty for the first game Andrew Johns played. Nobody was interested at all, was they?

Its seems ridiculous that your judgement of success of a marquee example would be whether or not it got more people in Birmingham watching

What if it gets more people in Leeds, Wakefield, Salfod? I remember the buzz in Leeds when we signed Ali Lauitiiti, it was huge and people were genuinely excited. Similarly when Wire signed Andrew Johns.

Why do small clubs always expect any investment to give them free money?

13000+ being empty............you wish

Its all well and good banging on about Andrew Johns at Warrington, but could a SL team get a player of that quality over here for a season or 2? could they hell.

The current players of that quality are Smith. Thurston, Inglis and SBW.

SBW rumoured deal for RU next year is over £1 million/ season

RL in England is relatively low profile and the ARL wont pick a player playing in SL for Oz, and they wont play SOO either. They wont get their high profile and very lucrative endorsement deals over here.

We're all being facetious regards Johns but the truth is Wire could have sold out their current capacity and probably more if someone of Johns calibre came over again, imagine Wire announcing Thurston tomorrow, even away fans would want to see him and it would be a big deal in RL circles here and abroad.

But we did get them before when the financials worked in our favour, we got some quality players coming over here. People like King, Lauitiiti, Lyon, Barret, Bai, Johns, Jones.

Maybe we wouldnt get an Inglis right now, no reason we couldnt get a Shaun Johnson. Are we going to get a Billy Slater? probably not, A Brett Stewart? probably. We probably wont get Cronk, we certainly could have brought Widdop back, We could have kept Soward, no reason we couldnt have swooped in for Jennings.

Will it make it more likely that occasionally circumstances will conspire so that we get a real top level player? A Thurston, a Smith, An Inglis? Of course.

So we can only get 2nd tier Ozzie players (still class for SL)? hardly Marquee though are they?
Luke Walsh is about the top class we will get. Quality player no doubt, but not what i would class as marquee

Like Walsh as top class currently, you could get better if you had a money no object option open up to you.
Even if they're just off the prime, Slater is past his best but still a phenomenal player.