Westwood was in all purpose covering some work usually done by props last season. He coped very well and will go well for us again in that role.

Sims has the attributes of a great skipper, he's not a million miles off a prop too, he's tall but 1/2 a stone shy. I hope he had his fish battered with his chips and gravy during the close season.

Hill solid and always slightly improving. This year we could see him peak and in turn unofficially recognised as the best prob in SL.

I'm underwhelmed by our forward signings but it doesn't mean I'm saying they are bad players. I like Jordan Cox and think he could be a bargain buy, if he stays injury free he could come good. I like Westwood as a prop and think he will do ok, gutted Harrison is missing most of the season I think prop is his best position. That saying I'm more then happy with the rest of our signings I think we've brought some skill and power in our back line which will see us good. I have to admit when I heard we signed Dodds I spat my dummy out and through a hissy fit. But I was going off what I had previously seen which wasn't good. I've seen a lot of his games this year including the final and he was in the same mold as sims, he's a big fast prop with great defence. He drives hard and could excell over here, lots of not well known players do well in a different style of competition so fingers crossed. Hill, Sims, Dodds, Evans, Harrison, King, Westwood,Philbin. We're not short of grunt so I'm more and more happy with the squad as time goes on, I'm looking forward to 2016

Well, we've 14 pages of discussion about a lack of props, and the "solution" seems to be the anmouncement of Jordan Cox, yet you fail to comprehend that for some (who believe that the lack of go forward was a problem last season) this might show a lack of ambition by the club to improve on the situation ?

Warrington made the third most metres in Super League last season and the most metres per carry in the league. That would seem to suggest go forward was not the issue.

Perhaps 10th for clean breaks might have an ambitious club looking to recruit halfbacks, like Sandow and Gidley for example.

Given a decent halfback pairing who click with the forwards, we may well see a different effort in front of the sticks and the metres forward will also improve. Clearly on first impressions Cox is no world beater, but with him on a 12 month deal and Harrison on 12 months injury enforced sabbatical I guess all could go well. However, it could fall down if Cox gets injured, ill, poor discipline or just doesn't do it as appears to be the main comments elsewhere. He has a chance at a club that is as well equipped for success as any other in the league and he has to grab it.

"seeming lack of ambition" how can you say that when the wanted list was Thurston, Burgess, Cronk, Hargreaves, Bromich, Graham, Tomkins, Ingliss and Cox.
The only one available was Cox !!!!!. We have ambition but as Mummy would have said "You cant always have what you want".

i don't think anyone can accuse the club of lacking ambition... It seems to me that its the exact opposite...... Its has invested heavily in facilities, team and management over the last few years.

You can make some accusations at lazy recruitment and recruiting in the wrong areas....Which the club now seem to be in the process of fixing.

lacking ambition though? come on.. please.

i think they're doing it on purpose, antagonizing certain sections of fans, stayaways, grumpy s however you want to label them, for some people though, they just can't do anything right no matter what. Using the slightest of issues to justify staying away or persistantly moaning.

We all know someone thats like this.

Naughty . You know Metres and AG includes all players not just the pack and will distort the facts. After Hill, Stefan Ratchford made our most metres. 7 of the top 10 AG for Wire were backs.

I think the problematic stat is Tackle Busts at 6th in the league and below all of our rivals. At times we looked like we could not burst out of a paper bag when we needed to and were easily contained. Hull KR CCSF game especially.

I will concede though that we looked equally poor on the opposition 30m line too in terms of creativity and a new halfback pairing was a must.

I agree with you, I don't believe England is any better than Cox. But it still doesn't mean I'm happy we've signed him. We've swapped an average player with a spitting problem for a player who might be good with an attitude problem, that by his own admission needs to grow up.

Well, I said we should never have let Roy Asotasi go. A big experienced prop that never got injured and hardy missed a game. Where are all those detractors now ?

Bring back Roy, BRING BACK ROY,! He wasn't a naughty boy he was the saviour...

Id take roy back on cox's wages...

Did Cox play against us 2/3 seasons ago scoring a try? unless my memory is playing tricks he had a decent game and was a bit of a handful.

Best of luck to the lad he seems to be in the right frame of mind now and is intent on doing well.

He sure did. Round 22 of the 2013 season, he scored KR's only try in a 34-6 home win for the Wire.