Maybe the Guardian may get there first (for once)

It may well be the case that the club are waiting to announce the departures of players before naming the new. I remember The Lord Tony Smith was not too happy last year when Hodgson was announced early on in the season.

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No just about every media outlet on the planet is reporting that we have signed him - but the Wolves are saying it is purely speculation.
That is what they said when I queried reports of the club signing Monaghan and after reporting it as speculation, they released it as fact within 24 hours.

You got any Aussie contacts Skents?

Just threw TW into google and few hits came up, one via twitter has Waterhouse clearly stating to oz press that he is only moving due to Cap issues and really wants to end his career at the Panthers.
If this is the case do we really want a player who is clearly coming for the money and not the fact he wants to play for the wire????

Is he coming just 'for the money', he still wants to play but not for another club other than the Panthers.

He's coming because his options (due to his own making) are limited [Panters or SuperLeague]

The article says nowhere that he has had a desire to play in England and throughout he states returning to Oz and hopefully Panthers. Yeah I understand that most overseas players usually want to end their palying careers where they started but at least give show a little bit of respect to our game!!

Basically he can't stay at Penrith due to salary cap issues, and he could never see himself lining up against them, therefore, the solution is to come to SL.

He's stated that he doesn't want to have to play against the Panthers in his career, so that means his options are limited to English clubs. Sure, he'd rather stay with the Panthers but it doesn't look like that will work out so presumably we're second choice.

Yeah accepted, but surely his agent would of had a word to say give it the "think SL is great" blah blah blah.

Looking at footage on you tube yeah looks a great player and "if" he is going to be wearing the P&B I hope he give it his all and not just a meal ticket, awaiting Panthers to come calling, as it appears he will take up a big chunck of the cap

But don't get cut up about his mercenary attitude people, if anything it's good that he's honest. IMO there is nothing worse than when a player signs for a club 10,000 miles away and then professes their eternal support for the club and how they used to get up at 4am to watch [Insert name of first club legend found on Google here] and can't wait to play in front of the passionate supporters at [Insert name of ground here]. The vast majority of NRL players come for one or more of the following reasons:

1 - Financial. They can earn more or over a longer period than they can in the NRL
2 - Disciplinary. An awful lot of imports have made their NRL position untennable due to their behaviour
3 - Escapism. A lot of players get into the NRL system young and have never seen the world. I remember reading about how Jason Hooper had got really excited when Saints went over a stream on the way to Wembley, thinking it was the Thames and trying to take a picture of it. A paid vacation around Europe with a safe ex-pat community on tap is an attractive way to finish a career.

Pretty much all the players in SL are mercenaries. The likes of Brett Hodgson and Matt King included. There are only a few rare examples of people who come over for rugby reasons, and they are usually young players who have failed to capitalise on an NRL place.

I cant think of many players in the Warrington squad who would have grown up wanting to play for Wire.

Hodgson, King, Monaghans, Morley etc.... have pretty much all signed with us for the money or longer contracts.

Im more interested in him trying hard and earning his pay.

Even some of the old boys

Woody and Clarke (Wigan fans)
Briers (Saints fan)