A lot of clubs did it, not just us. Unfortunately it's a by-product of clubs being run by amateurs having unimaginable amounts of money being thrown at them for the first time. When you think of the cash that was squandered in the game generally between 1996-2001, that should have been used to set in motion the grassroots/community stuff which people eventually cottoned onto.

dave king was an animal

Donkey?

As I recall getting Kidwell to defend appeared a tougher task.

There was a bloke stood near us in the Fletch who would pick a player and abuse them all afternoon, most of the time they were having a decent game.

In Dave King's case however, "run your weight you big daft bugger!" was spot-on

Andy Currier

Two from a very long time ago would be hard to beat. Robin Thompson was an Irish international second row who had just captained the RU British Lions to South Africa. He signed for Warrington in 1955 for what was then a world record signing-on fee. He was a complete waste of space. Martin Regan who signed a couple of years later was the current England RU fly half and was even worse. We spent so much money on those two that we could not afford any more decent signings and the great wire team of the early fifties faded away.

Since Tony Smith came , I don't think there has been any bad signings.

Mind you there have not been many signings full stop.

I took a day off work to greet Joey Johns at Manchester Airport only to see him play one decent game out of three. I'll never get that leave back....Furious!!

Wasn't his fault that he had the likes of Paul Noone crashing onto his passes.

Thought he usually stood at the back with his hands on his head!!!

I will never forget that night against Leeds, one of my favourite Wire memories. I won't have him on here, worth every penny for me.

still watch the dvd of that game once a year my all time favourite night