Yes im sure he was very helpful.

He was more helpful than Danny Lima was

I'll always remember the Danny Lima lap of honour he used to do without fail, slapping everyones hands at the front of the stands.

i'll always remember the six match ban he got shortly after the start of the 2004 season. The countless head high tackles and the 2 occasions he pushed players into the scoreboards after putting the ball down.


on the plus side, he inspired one of my favorite EVER paul cullen quotes at a fans forum, from a question i asked.

Leroy Rivett, former Lance Todd trophy winner. Did he even score a try for us?

Andy Currier, world beater at Widnes, couldn't beat an egg at Warrington.

What was that question and response cat?

I had forgotten that, my Altzeimers must be getting worse !

Worst signing ever associated with Warrington RLFC?
When "Colin Fishwick" registered with this forum.

Back in the real world...
Teesside Wire beat me to it with Steve Anderson.

When we gave Anderson the boot he did the best possible thing he could do for RL, he got a job with the Scottish RFU and completely buggered that up too. He left things in a right mess when they gave him the push.

Some damned good players mentioned in this list of shame, so far. As I've said on many occassions on this board, some people HAVE to have scapegoats.

Sorry if any of the following upsets anyone

Tony Burke (a shadow of what he was at Stains, and that was nowt special at times). We paid a LOT of money for him, too. Lasted 1 season and he got involved in summat dodgy, iirc.
Tony Tatupu (built like a brick poohouse, played like a poohouse). Likewise Currier
Steve Roach (showed NOTHING in a Wire shirt, until a certain SLB turned up, and Roach actually pulled his finger out)

Yes in the shock win at Hull away when Briers kicked 3 drop goals.

Rivett scored three less tries in his whole Warrington career than he had scored at Wembley.

anyone remember the new ellery hanley that we had in basil richards played more like wendy richards....

A lot of bad players were signed in 2002 but there were also quite a few good players signed that year as well:

Darren Burns
Sid Domic
Nick Fozzard
Mark Hilton
Ben Westwood
Nat Wood
Graham Appo (he was good for the first 2 years of his Warrington career)

One saving grace about the bad signings were they were probably not on much money and apart from Sturm who had been signed for 3 years, they were all gone at the end of the season. When Cullen shipped out all the dross signings from 2002 at the end of that season and started 2003 with the core of players above, we were a better side than we had been in 2001 and Westwood was possible our best signing of the decade.

So actually although 2002 was dire, it was probably better for us in the long run to sign some absolute dross and some quality, than what we were largely getting in 1995-98 which was a lot of very ordinary players and we didn't sign much quality during that time, probably Kohe-Love, Vagana, Nutley and Farrar were the only really good players coming in during four seasons (plus Henare who was like Appo, superb half season then went downhill alarmingly)

Basil wasn't THAT bad. He was ok when he wanted to be. Just a pity that he never applied himself. I think he believed the hype.
After all, we kept him for about 5 seasons, all at the time when we had a lot of competition for places in the pack