Saints sold a rather promising half back to a local rival a few years back too. Can't think of his name though.

Matty Smith

that's fair enough but the signing mistakes Wigan Have made throughout their History are about as many as Tony Smith made in his last season.....

but the difference between Long and Mellor is after a handful of games for widnes all of superleague were interesed in signing Long...... Mellor is 27 and played about 160 games for widnes and I'm not sure the top clubs have been knocking on the door at Halton Stadium.....generally that's a bit of a gauge to where his level is......


ooh and a pound for someone who says yeah what about Luke Gale then....

Unfortunately although I think Joe Mellor will leave Widnes at the end of the season, it wont be for us ... Toronto may be calling

Mellor wants to play for Wire. Warrington can match Toronto and Catalans within the new cap anyways. I do think Toronto will have a massive cull though. Their team looks like it would give Widnes a game on paper...
I've a feeling there are going to be some surprise strugglers next year.

Wasn't there a falling out between the club & parents a few years ago over the coaching methods being used for the junior players ,which led to some up & coming youngsters moving to other clubs ? I believe Joe Mellor was one of those involved.

re. Mellor
It's not important that Wigan got rid or that Widnes are a struggling team. Would he be a decent signing? He has caused lots of problems to us in the past and he looks pretty good to me.

And is one of the better half backs available at the moment... if we go for another marquee NRL half (which I hope we do) we could do worse than Mellor alongside him. The options aren’t exactly abundant at the moment. I wasn’t a massive Kevin Brown fan before he this season but what I’d give to have a younger Brown here for the next two years... and I never thought I’d sa that in 2017.

What about Luke Gale then...what about Kevin Penny too? The top clubs didn't knock on his door so you could have said Swinton was a gauge of where he was, till he came back to be a successful SL winger with us.

That will be two pounds please.

Me thinks SC has found a gap in the market.

Plus according to the rules it’s a pound for saying Luke Gale, but doesn’t state how many times he can be mentioned.

Luke Gale Luke Gale Luke Gale...