The rumour was Prell was a Moran signing and Smith wasn't interested in the project. As it turns out he was only interested in cashing in his cheques. SO, Prell could be a pleasant surprise, or disappear as quickly as he arrived. Full salary isnt on cap so happy days either way.

Can you imagine being an acrobatic winger with pace playing on the edge with murdoch Masila and a good centre. ..?

They'd score unopposed tries by the sackful. .....

Hopefully opposing 2nd Rows and Centres wont know if they are sticking or twisting all season.

Hate to bang on about it, but the treatment of KP was one of my biggest bugbears of the Smith era.

Seconded.

Just one question about Penny, which Super League club has snapped him up due to him being the king of the wing? Penny was at times exciting to watch, but was very poor at times as well. He always looked liked a new recruit in a junior team who was new to the game but full of enthusiasm.

Seconded

I don't understand this love in with Kev Penny and that he was not treated right by the club. He scored a sackful of tries in the early games and then other teams worked him out. He was released by the club for not being good enough. Dropped a division or two, club brought him back and he still wasn't as good as what we had. I really wanted him to succeed being a Warrington lad, but he just wasn't good enough

Isn't the issue that he was never given the framework to develop his skills and confidence without being ejected from the first team for any mistake and set to the RL wilderness. On his return, after waiting for an injury, a further mistake and he was gone again. A career wasted really.

This. We've suffered watching Russell fail to deal with any attacking kick and make blunder after blunder. as well as watch Hughes playing with feet for hands yet the pair of them undroppable in smiths eyes. Yet penny can make one mistake and he's never to be seen again.

He was treated poorly by Smith and all because Kev challenged him on something during a review so Smith dropped him.

Russell and Hughes were first names on the sheet come what may. I sometimes wonder what they would have had to have done to lose their place. Russel has a nightmare at Catalan at FB early in the season and he wasn't dropped, no, he was moved to a position where he didn't have to catch as much. Cleary form / not being able to catch wasn't enough for Tony to consider dropping them. They probably trained far too well in the week for that.

I can imagine if Penny had fumbled the ball at the PTB as often at Hughes he would have been shot at dawn.