Signing Inglis out of the blue got me thinking about other big signings that we have announced over the years, we have had quite a few earth-shakers.
I've ranked these not on how they played in the P&B but on the significance of the signing at the time, how much it contributed to changing the club's ambition and the way we were perceived, how excited the fans were with the signing. I started watching post Boyd and Woods and Dessie was already here so others will have to say where they would rank on this list.
How would you rank these guys (and have I missed anybody off
The difference to Sullivan was that MM became as you say the best all round hooker in SL. It still meant we were using makeshift replacements at halfback for a couple of years but once we signed Myler all the pieces fell in place.
But when we signed them, King was seen as more the sure thing and there were question marks over MM. King took a while to settle too though - neither of those two really got going until TS arrived in their second season.
Hicks was the most consistent from the start but slipped under the radar as a signing because he didn't have a high profile in Aus, although he had a good NRL record.