Players, hailed as world-class, join Warington and become really quite ordinary.
It began with Martin Gleeson and now Widdopp and Williams have joined.
It wasn't always so. Bobby Fulton, John Bevan and Jonathan Davies each maintained the reputation they arrived with.
Can't explain it.

Winning & losing money ? We do seem to have a negative effect on some players or is it our scouting department that is pointing out the wrong players to sign ?

Morley maintained performance.

Difference - by any criteria, regardless of who is assessing them, Davies, Bevan, Fulton [iwere[/i world class.

Williams, as yet, is not and never has been worthy of that tag. Aside from a couple of match winning drop goals he has done nothing of note in a wires shirt.

For me the club needs to clear everything Pre Tony Smith, he came in and slowed it down but I just feel there is still an element of that culture still at the club. Does not help with the “jobs for the boys” thing. Anyways that’s my thoughts got to give Powell time and he needs to clear the decks before he can make his own mark.

We made Andrew Johns look bang average. It takes a special kind of club to do that.

Powell has 3 years to change the culture so give him a bit of time.

He doesn't need 3 years to change the captain though, he could've done that by now. And that worries me.

This is the one curious decision made by DP, and one that's unfathomable.

He's explained his reasoning for it.

Would you have appointed Hughes as captain before the 2022 season began?

Not on what I saw in 2021 with his captaincy then, and even more so given how he played last season too.

Nope, I'm not arguing in favour of him, just saying I understand why he's chosen to keep him.

That being said, he brought holmes in as an on field leader, ive been somewhat underwhelmed with him so far, he's not setting an example so far.

It's going to take time to get DP's style of play, and to assemble the squad for him to deliver it. Hughes wouldn't make my starting 17, but I get he's contacted for 2022 and were stuck with him for this season. But I'm still struggling with why DP made him captain, that was a bad decision for me.

Is there a case for he never really wanted to leave Cas, he was quite open about his emotion of leaving and just maybe he is finding it hard to settle, just a thought.