Menzies is still one of the best back rowers going, last year he played like a 25 year old.

Next weeks Press Conference at the HJ is probly to announce that Smith will no longer England Coach and will devote all his time to the Wire.

Yeah - got to agree over this.

I get the feeling that there are real problems at Bulls and sometimes I feel McNamara has lost the plot.
Not sure how much his hand is being forced.

Glad we've got Myler over Orford.

Why replace a 30 year old with a 32 year old?

Because he's a far better player and less injury prone/past it.

No !

Even now, he will be the lead scrum half in SL, should it happen.

There will always be the doubters. Plenty doubted our claims that Monaghan was going to be the lead scrum half in SL when he came over, but who got the last Lance Todd laugh...?

If Wire have a Lance Todd Scrum Half, Wigan have a World Cup winning one.

Yeah but thats about as useful to Wigan as Matt Kings NRL Grand Final medal is to us.

Why?


Replacing 2 injury prone old second rowers with a younger, fitter, faster NRL GF winner and 2 rising youngsters of our own.

Replacing an ageing injury prone SH, with last years Dall M year, even with a year on Deacon, he is still a better player.

Replacing an inconsistent SO who has never hit the heights he should with a young player with everything to prove and who has a touch of class.

Handing 3 year contracts to 4 of our best upcoming youngsters including the 2 Burgess twins.

Replacing Terry Newton who was dire last year with another quality GF winning player.

Reardon and Sculthorpe both also have somehting to prove, although i'm not too happy about the latter, but I think he's a stop gap until Kopzcak is beter and Crossley, the Burgess twins and Lilycrop are ready to step up.

Doesn't look too bad to me, but you know, we must be looking to do even worse than last season, that really is McNamara's aim.

I have found the name of the prop we are signing for next season, it's James Graham.........however we are selling him straight away to Wigan in a similar move that took place a couple of years ago when Mickey Higham joined Wigan via Bradford, this is due to the fact that Saints will not sell Wigan a virus, this could be the reason for the press conference

Who said there is a press conference next week?

me.

It is official: www.mwse.com.au/default.aspx?s=a ... y&id=21271

It is official: www.mwse.com.au/default.aspx?s=a ... y&id=21271