Matty Bowen would've been a great signing - 6 years ago! Let's hope he stays in Townsville.

People are acting like hes about 35. He's 28. Hardly a has been. Katie i know Lockyer has had enough but if we had pulled it off it would have been fantastic for Widnes. We have a fantastic amount of youth coming threough the first time and if anything, to even up this "balance" we need experienced players who will not just aid our youngsters in their improvement, but still have talent to offer.

Gareth Ellis i was on about.

Whoooooooooooooooosh!

You are in super league for 3 years why not spend that money on young english players and develop them after all isn't that what franchise is suppose to be all about?

Leigh have played most of the season with a all british squad and are top of the league,robbie paul as not played for weeks,it can be done,just have faith in home grown

You don't see the aussies flooding there game with oap british players do you??? kid comes through they play him and guess what he grows with the experiance and if he fails he ends up in super league anyroad

We dont want to flood our side with them. You look in every SL club, they have 3/4 aussies/overseas players. Thats all we want. No where have we stated out intentions are to go out and buy shed load of aussies and fill our side with them. We have one of the best academies in england and will bring them through in the next 3 years.

well stop starting threads every fooking day saying your signing this oap that oap

get some of these so called super kids in your first team you never know you may win a game let alone a championship or grand final this season eh

Why when did we finish in the bottom 2?????????

apart from one rail cup what have the mighty cup kings won in this franchise era

Thought bottom 2 went down ah well seems it must be true as we are now top

I mean if the great rfl went ahead and sent us down how funny would have the scores looked in the lower league seeing as we keep putting 50 past you with your star studded team

Looking forward to the next widnes linked with oap from down under thread

Lets see what sort of team Widnes put out In their third season not their first,eh.

Not until his Latvian passport arrives he won't. Heard he is having lunch with the president of Latvia to get it sorted.

Is that after his Libyan and Egyptian ones fell through due to unforeseen circumstances?

Libyan one is awaiting outcomes of latest round of air strikes, but we have the new Ivory Coast leader standing by should it fail.