Andy Gregory

Sally seems prone to these apparent rushes of blood to the head at times. I have just thought they were attempted wind-ups and ignored them.
I am surprised however that he/she and other posters seem to take everything that these professional guys say as one hundred percent kosher and the epitome of veracity.
Adrian Morley cited his wish to go to Salford was in order to to finish his career at his hometown club. I don't suppose it had anything to do with Koukash offering him a better deal. I don't have a problem with him moving for a better deal because he went about it in an honourable manner. As I said before, Gregory was always chasing the cash and he did not much care how he went about it and that was the difference with him.
I have read Gregory's biography as well and when I read the bit that Sally quoted I had to laugh with incredulity. Bishop was not in the same league as a half back and the only way Gregory would be dropped would be for disciplinary reasons of which there were many because, as he says, he was going out of his way to be awkward. He also admits that he was talking to Wigan. No doubt upping the ante.
If he wanted to play for Wigan he could have signed for them at 17 but, at that time, Wigan were broke so he signed for Widnes, no doubt for a better fee. Then Wigan got a new board and they started pawning the company silver and splashing the cash whereupon Gregory becomes unsettled and wants out. Was it because of his longing to play for his hometown club or was it the carrot of more money?
Widnes refuse to sell him to Wigan so we buy him and, no doubt, met his wage demands.
Within eighteen months he is causing trouble in the ranks in order to force Warrington's hand and transfer list him. He cranked up this conduct until he got his wish.. Was this conduct down to his pining to play for his hometown club or was it the fact that Wigan were cherry picking everyone's best players by paying more money. Gregory did not play for anyone for weeks. Did he go all that time without wages? Saints offered the asking price bur Gregory refused to sign for them and sat it out whilst Wigan went to arbitration to try and reduce the fee. That is the thing that irks me and, I suspect, many others. The underhanded way that Gregory and Wigan acted.
It is a free country and Sally is entitled to defend Mr. Gregory but I think, with the majority of Wire and Widnes fans his/her remarks will fall on deaf ears.
It is ironic that Gregory got upset when Wigan later treated him with the same disdain as he had treated his previous clubs.
It is even more ironic that Gregory was coach at Salford when they knocked Wigan out of the cup which began the process of the crumbling of the Wigan hegemony, the financing of which seemed to be based on winning everything.
It is said that a Wigan player once said to Gregory "They say the boss is going to give Andy Goodway a cortisone injection" to which he replied, "If he's getting a new car I want one"
Not very funny you might think but it does sum up his avaricious approach to life.
A truly great player. IMO at his peak better that Shaun Edwards. From all accounts a very personable and charming man to talk to but, at some crucial times, blinded by avarice.