Hmm interesting signing, didnt see it coming

in smith we trust

has all the attributes and will be coached by a man proven to bring players on,good signing.

tache, are there only 3 players coming in (Hill, Waterhouse and Ratchford) or will there be more?

There again, Turley's back injury had begun to kick in by the time we got promoted - he only played 9 games (scored two tries and kicking nineteen goals and one drop goal) during 2005. Genuinely had the potential to become a top class player did Turls.

Varkulis played in our academy by the way although I'm not sure if he had a spell at Miners before joining Wire.

I see this as a pretty good signing.

I dont think he will get loads of game time in his first season with us, but adds good depth and from what i have seen on Sky (not loads of him if i'm honest) he looks handy and has potential. If Smith can harness that potential then after a year with the first team could have a good squad player at least on our hands.

oh, plus i imagine cheap on the cap

I'm sure if you let Tony Smith go in to Danny Devito's house he'd change his wife in to a six foot salty milkshake loving stunner.

Tony is God

What's ace about Smith is, he's turned SL for us into like the SPL. Where the worst that can happen is you'll finish 2nd and finish behind your big rivals and probably win the cup (or both).

The rest of SL are like St Mirren (Wakey), Hibs (Saints), Aberdeen (Bradford) etc ..

Yes it would have been interesting to see how he would have gone in 2002 had we signed him. After his record breaking year in the NFP in 2001 I thought he looked a good bet, in that Lancashire-Yorkshire game he didn't look out of place, and I was disappointed that we didn't sign him. When David Plange had taken over as sole head coach and the board released money, he said his main target was to get a "big signing" of a young British player who would be a part of the club's long term future, and Turley was the first target.

We didn't get him and we turned our attentions instead to Ben Westwood which made me slightly disappointed as I didn't really think he was that exciting a centre and the Wakey fans soon told us his nickname was Deadwood because he had started off looking like a good prospect but gone off the boil.

Its funny how things have turned out 9 years on and how things could have been different had Turley accepted our offer.

varkulis was signed at the last minute, as we weren't running a reserve side at that point, either we'd taken the decision to not to or the RFL had changed the rules (again) and a side was needed at short notice, so we went cherry picking amateur clubs as best we could

think it was the club doctor at that point who was actually coaching the team.

But by your admission was he still a better option than anyone from Warringtons Amateur clubs?

good signing IMHO. Wish we had got him.

Varkulis still making a living playing though, was on the field for Widnes at the weekend.

I notice that Leigh are playing in the NRC final on Sunday. Good opportunity to see young Hill play in a big(ish) game.

well my dad praised him in the last game leigh were on telly and the last player my dad ever praised was going back to mark forster he never praises anyone