Quote: Vespid_Wire "
You're missing the point completely.
You're saying he's a has-been but he's playing well. Has-been's are players that were good but are now past it. Higham isn't past it yet.'"
Theredshed's post just up there sums up what I mean. Remember, we're talking about Mickey in the context of a potential Salford signing, so that's not going to be until 2015 at the earliest. No matter what standard he's playing to, he's 33 now, 34 by the start of 2015 and age catches up with us all. He's never likely to see the inside of an international shirt again (although, to be fair, he's not seen the inside of many in the past either), and, I suspect, he won't be as effective next year or the year after. Ergo, if we were to sign him, we'd be signing a has-been.
Broadening it a bit, a signing like that is what you'd see (perhaps unfairly) as a typical Nobby signing. In fact, to some extent, a typical Salford signing. We've had probably more than our fair share of GB internationals playing for us over the years, but they all, pretty much to a man, played for us after their international careers were over. It's something we moved away from under Karl Harrison, but seemed to be creeping back towards under Nobby. It's one of the reasons why I disagree with the view that seems to pop up on the Warrington forum that Marwan was wrong to remove him.
