A winger is as good as his centre. No coincidence Joel was superb under Bridge but a cast off when Bridge was released.

He scored 5 tries outside Blythe at Magic weekend in 2012. Should Blythe be held up there with Jamie Lyon?

We released him due to getting older (33 ish) and Cas offering him an opportunity, not because Bridge moved on.

With regards to Ashton, I heard he was dropped for a breach of club discipline.
There’s a video of him doing the rounds on social media of him engaging in some ‘adult activity’ which the club aren't too happy about.

You'll not get the Duck to move on that.

Loved Des Drummond...a very exciting player...always high expectation when he got the ball...BUT his handling was a bit suspect...always likely to drop a pass or a bomb per game. Not consistent...but very exciting. Bit of a metaphor for RL in general really. The excitement has waned for the sake of consistency...making life a little duller. IMO.

I always enjoy this argument because it ties in knots the people who simultaneously want to argue that Atkins never passed to his winger and that Chris Riley was overrated.

It doesn't account for miss out passes or high kicks.

I don't remember Riley being much of a target for high kicks. When Briers was bombing the opposition it was usually to Joel Monaghan, King or Hicks, or before that, Fa'afili.

I loved Henry Fa'afili, he's still one of my favourite wingers, but he also had Martin Gleeson outside him and he was pure class and a proper wingers centre

For me Fa'afili was one of those players who made a successful career out of one good attribute. He wasn't particularly quick or elusive but he was good at competing for the ball in the air. He wasn't as tall as guys like Matt King but he could out jump people. It was during the Fa'afili era that we started really developing the Briers bomb as an attacking weapon.

Fa'afili also benefited from playing outside Gleeson too but he was already a successful NZ international before he joined us without Gleeson there. There was a Test a year or so before he joined us where Stacey Jones carved up GB with high kicks and Fa'afili got a hat-trick. He did get stick from the fans though despite scoring a lot of tries, probably because he came across as having a 'chilled'/casual attitude and sometimes looked like he was ambling about the field. It was an upgrade to move him on and bring in Hicks who was just as good as an aerial threat but brought much more.

Gleeson seems to be remembered as a better player now than he was at the time. When he left us, the consensus here was that he had been a class act for his first couple of seasons and then went through the motions a bit for his next couple of years, just turning it on in big games. Certainly nobody was complaining when TS shipped him out to Wigan soon after coming in. I remember it feeling frustrating that there was a narrative building of "Gleeson is on the decline" from his Warrington form and then when the end of season internationals would come round he looked top class again.

Fa'afili and Gleeson have a significant role in Warrington history though as it was their signing that first signalled an upgrade in our ambitions following Simon Moran getting majority ownership. If you had gone back 18 months earlier to that GB-NZ test where Fa'afili got a hat-trick and Gleeson was playing for GB, you would [inever[/i have thought Warrington would have signed those two. After we signed them, bigger names started to come.

Pretty sure Karl Pratt was playing on the wing for GB opposite fa'fili that day. That may go a long way to explaining his hat trick!

Yes it was Karl Pratt. Unfortunate defining moment in his career that, similar to Nathan Graham for Bradford in the Challenge Cup final a few years earlier.

Briers and Hodgson (amongst others) making opportunities for him.

I thought it was well accepted that Gleeson had an unsettling effecting in the camp. A bad penny. His private life cannot have helped.