What massive differences would Bert have provided over goal kicking this week? Did you not see the wind?

Press conference www.newcastleknights.com.au/news ... kni_0.html (moderators - it's on the official knights site - totally legit to share)

Press conference www.newcastleknights.com.au/news ... kni_0.html (moderators - it's on the official knights site - totally legit to share)

I don't know. None? Can you find out please.

Officially announced now.

Gidley seems much more excited about coming to Wire than most of the posters here. I think after reading the quote below we can all be a little more optimistic about his gusto for the club:

"I have felt sad about leaving, I have felt excited about a new challenge but I am mostly relieved that I have reached the stage of making this decision.

"I have been thinking about this for over 12 months and I knew it had to come to an end at some stage.

"I have had a great career, it has been a pretty long career, and I am looking forward to the change of going over to England, so too is my family."

Had Saddened not mentioned his name the other day in connection to Saints I'd thought he'd retired.

This is the bit I don't understand. If Warrington desperately need a play-maker - why sign a player who isn't a primary play-maker?

Are you signing a primary play-maker AS WELL for Gidley to play in support of? If not the signing makes no sense.

My take on it is that this is a stop gap signing till either someone who we are after becomes available or someone we already have has that extra bit of time before being promoted from within.

From reading the interviews from Gidley, he mentions being down on confidence after being asked to play positions he had never really played before. I suspect this is at half back as he is predominantly a Full Back or Hooker.

I cannot see him replacing Ratch at fullback and shouldnt do either, Ratch is our safest fullback and offers plenty in attack also. Therefore this leaves me to think that we will not renew Highams contract, which would be a shame, yes he is getting on but i think his form warrants another year. Is it a possibility that Leigh have signed there local son for Super League next year and hence we have signed Gidley to replace Higham?

Were not biting!

We're still not biting.
Plenty time to announce that if required.

I don't know what made you think I wasn't being serious ... but I WAS being serious.

He was talking about Wayne Bennett kicking Gidley out of fullback so he could put his love child Darius Boyd in the position and telling Gidley to play hooker for 80 minutes, which Gidley did, but ended up needing shoulder surgery after a short time, ironically after he tackled good mate Clint Newton head on.
He goes alright at hooker for short minutes, but he is not an 80 minute hooker.

I don't have anything against Gidley. But Gidley in support of A.N.Other.TBA makes a lot more sense than Gidley on his own.

I don't like to criticise Lance Hohaia - but he was brought to Saints to play such a role and - judged solely on his performance in that regard - was a complete failure.

His missus is going to brighten the place up. Looking forward to helping her with her shopping in Morrisons.

Fortunately we dont need an 80 minute hooker, we have the current man of steel who could play the full 80, however we like to employ two hookers. Generally the starting hooker comes off (Higham recently) after about 20 minutes to be replaced by Clark who then does the rest of the game, Higham then comes back on after about 60 minutes and Clark stays on. The two of them then interchange between hooker and normally back row. We have employed this sort of tactic for a while now. Even when we had Monaghan and Higham as our hookers.

Our fullback Ratchford is more than adequate and i would hate to have his nose put out for a player to come in for a season and take his place. Unless Tony Smith is giving Ratchford the half back role