Who are in your opinion, the moderate by NRL standards teams in this country?

Any Super League Team!

They do not have the resources or will to be like the NRL teams consistently.

I would rate Leeds, Saints and Wigan around Penrith standard but not consistently and the rest maybe , on a very good day around the Titans/Sharks level.

The Dragons IMO look to be a team capable of going places, their defence is, currently, very good and consistent.

One off games prove nothing.

The Dragons are looking good, but they've flattered to deceive before. I wonder if this new-found defensive steeliness can last.

Penrith standard is pretty good these days. I don't disagree with you, but hold to my view that, for the all the justified complaints about the poor standard of SL this season, the NRL in fact has been pretty ordinary too this year. I've lost the will to live watching Canterbury and Manly this year, and just watched the mighty Rabbitohs concede a try so comically soft that a pub side would be ashamed of it.

Blame JEAN CRAPDOUCHE for that, it's one of his trolling ploys.

He's done it before, under a different user name. If I recall, he got his butt kicked then too.

Trying to compare Australia to the UK is pointless so it sums Barry, sorry JEAN up. I suppose it gives him an opportunity to show his knowledge of Wikipedia

Gareth Widdop has given no public indication that he wants to return to the Old Dart. It is all just a failed exercise by Gary Hetherington.

Widdop was excellent today in putting his Dragons top of the NRL ladder after there narrow victory over the Broncos.
Mike Cooper also going from strength to strength after bagging the winning try.

Widdop is a great leader... A Sinfield plus running skills. Michael Cooper is now a chance for the England squad, perhaps at the expense of Christopher Hill.

I like Widdops style.
No Hollywood about him and goes about his business in an unspectacular fashion.
His short kicking game inside the oppo's 20 today was very good and pressure accumulating.
I would also agree with you about Cooper and looks a shoe-in for international reconition imminently.

Gareth.

England now has a luxury of choices in the props and hooker positions. What a pity that the selector has no such luxury in choosing whom to partner Gareth Widdop.

Halifax a very underrated place.

He has stated more than once that he hopes to play for Halifax one day.

Widdop is a very classy no nonsence player who should be England first choice No6, but why would Leeds want him? If you watched the youngsters they had playing last night they won't need to be splashing out for years to come I just wish our club could find the likes of the lads Leeds get.

Leeds already have Liam Sutcliffe and a resurgent Daniel McGuire. Why do they need Gareth Widdop? McGuire is the resilient past. Sutcliffe is the exciting future.

Show us the evidence -- preferably on a website rather than a secret conversation you think that you have overheard -- which will prove the truth of that unlikely statement.