Cannot believe that David Kidwell hasn't been mentioned. I'm going to throw in Vince Fawcett as well.

Thought Rocky was ok. Never had any speed about him but we've had a lot worse play at 6. Good kicker too. Scott Wilson and Adam Doyle strike me as the worst halves I've seen for us. Agree with about Rodwell, his young family bore the brunt of it. Shameful.

Yeah, OK, sorry for the gratuitous pic of him as a right fat knacker, but he played like he was in his fifties when he was with us.
Roach remains the most disappointing signing ever IMO. He was a fully fledged Aussie international, with a massive reputation. He is named in the top 100 Australian players OF ALL TIME. He was, clearly, a proper player.
For Wire, though, he was bloody diabolical. Bossed a game against Keighley in the CC. Tremendous. Apart from that, he was toilet.

Agreed....If ever somebody just turned up for the cash, it was Roach.

Players like Rodwell, Wilson, Sullivan etc, were not particularly good to start with, so it can be little surprise that they flop when over here, but as Worthing Wire says, Roach was THE best forward in World rugby at that time, so to turn in the rotten displays he did really hurt to see.

The most appalling thing, in that same season, Les Boyd came out of retirement for half a season, and despite being past his best, was still head and shoulders above Roach, who needed to take a close look at his compatriot for a lesson into how to actually earn the big wedge that Warrington had paid to them both.

I reckon of my time watching Warrington the era 1995-1998 would have to go down as our prime era for making bad signings. We seemed to have a scattergun approach for signing players, a load of them were duds.

We've made bad signings before and since but nothing compares to that era for the volume of them.

Name,Names Sal i Wanna see your slant on bad Signings!!

Like a few have said before a lot of them wasnt bad sighnings,but some coaches played them in a different posistion than the posistion they had become accustomened to..

Like Gary Hulse was never a full back..
John Wilshire was never a winger..
Andy Brachek was never a centre..

mike ford

Stuart Reardon.

David Plange

At a time when everyone else was going for power and pace!!
We got Dean Gaskell..

I'll see your dean Gaskell and raise you a Dean Hanger...

steve 'the penalty machine' pickersgill

Sal, 1995-98 can easily be surpassed by the 2002 season, when we not only signed poor players, we also played the few good players we had out of position. Our worst ever signing had to be Steve Anderson as coach, who nearly destroyed the club. Matt Sturm on a 4 year contract was one of the most baffling, but Tommy O'Reilly, Matt Rodwell, Dale Laughton, Dale Cardoza and many more, made 2002 a classic season for crap signings.

Doug Hoyle.

And whoever said Danny Lima behave yourself.

Danny was one bright spark in a pretty dreadful new stadium/cullen era. He wasnt the best but he gave his all and thats all you can ask.

You should behave yourself with your Doug Hoyle comment. He was very useful to the club at certain very difficult times.