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| Quote: mark_m "Just out of interest when was the last time we signed a player from an amateur team (not a junior or youth player through the academy system) and used them in the first team? Who was it?'"
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| Ryan Atkins
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| Ryan Atkins
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| Some excellent ones so far - Greg Mackey, Nat Wood and Toa Kohe-Love all really good shouts, and great to see Derek Finnegan getting a mention too. Takes me right back to my earlier years of Wire-watching!
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| Quote: Kol Witless "Derek Finnegan. Cost next to nothing from Moore RUFC. Tough as teak and as honest, committed and reliable a professional that you could wish for.'"
working with derek tomorrow and i'll tell him about this, he'll be made up!
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| I always convince myself that anybody we sign is a top signing (I believe this is now a recognised medical condition known as "Matty Smith Syndrome"icon_wink.gif however two un-heralded signings who turned out to be great players were Keith Holden and Greg Mackey.
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3076_1671446335.jpg SAINTS THE ORIGINAL AND PERENNIAL CHEATS
For sale full Saints kit (circa 1989). Shirts in pristine condition, but shorts badly soiled.
For 27 - 0 you get a trophy
For 75 - 0 you get sod all.
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| Quote: Paul Youane "I always convince myself that anybody we sign is a top signing (I believe this is now a recognised medical condition known as "Matty Smith Syndrome"icon_wink.gif however two un-heralded signings who turned out to be great players were Keith Holden and Greg Mackey.'"
Which one?
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "Which one?'"
The middle one!
Bargain buy from Wigan to replace Andy Gregory if I remember correctly. His form for Warrington was every bit as good as Andy Greg's until Holden's career was finished by a pot-hole at Station Road.
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| Quote: Paul Youane "I always convince myself that anybody we sign is a top signing (I believe this is now a recognised medical condition known as "Matty Smith Syndrome"icon_wink.gif however two un-heralded signings who turned out to be great players were Keith Holden and Greg Mackey.'"
Spot on, PY
From memory, Mackey only came over because Andy Greg had stolen his spot at Illawarra, and he was looking for a club. Great player. Pity we didn't "sign" (up his contract) him when we should have (the next 3 or 4 years were almost in limbo, for us)
Have to agree with MKC, Shelford was a QUALITY player. Just wish we'd got him a couple of years earlier, and a stone or five lighter
Johnny Woods. Was expecting him to be almost finished. Far from it. A joy to watch a craftsman.
Joe Ropati (mentioned earlier) was another good signing, too. Had a bit of a lazy side to him (at times). There was that many Ropatis in the game, at that time, you never knew which one you had.
Richard Henare (for the time he was here). No-one had heard of him. When he played...wow.
A bloke I know, used to be his landlord on Gainsborough Rd, said he was a total nutcase, and needed sectioning.
Michael Eagar
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1883.jpg Didn't William Webb Ellis pick up the ball and run, someone should really tell Rugby Union.
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| Quote: Paul Youane "The middle one!
Bargain buy from Wigan to replace Andy Gregory if I remember correctly. His form for Warrington was every bit as good as Andy Greg's until Holden's career was finished by a pot-hole at Station Road.'"
The travesty of his career being tragically cut short is equalled only by Mark Roberts.
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| Quote: getdownmonkeyman "The travesty of his career being tragically cut short is equalled only by Mark Roberts.'"
Keith Holden and then Mark Robertsmentioned in the same thread
i.....think....I'm....going....to ....cry....oh...nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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26672.jpg "The Warrington people hadn't had success for a few years, but there's no speccy in the world as good. They are very knowledgeable and appreciative of hard work. What they like is honesty. They want the team to try; if they fail they fail, but they expect honesty. They know when players don't put it in."
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| Where did we get Steve Hesford from? One of the greatest to pull on a Wire shirt (in my opinion)
My hero when I was younger
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| Duane Mann.
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| Sir les boyd for me
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| Quote: Powdered Toast Man "Where did we get Steve Hesford from? One of the greatest to pull on a Wire shirt (in my opinion)
My hero when I was younger'"
I think it was Fylde RU, but no doubt someone will tell me otherwise.
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