out of the following 3 who do you think has been the worst or least effective signing in recent years?

1. monaghan
2. sullivan
3. rodwell

king.

give me sullivan any day...toss of a coin with the other 2

Rodwell for me, although the whole team were playing poorly when he was here. On a slightly different note, how about the most underrated player of recent times. Darren burns in my opinion - class player.

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anyone fancy this lot at the moment?

Briers.

Which year was this photo from?

I'd say sullivan had "least effect" on the team as he was neither bad nor brilliant.

Matt Rodwell played in a generally poor team with Crazy Steve Anderson in charge remember He put Briers at full back and the halfs were domic and Rodwell Sid had just come form the NRL where he had been playing in the pack...!! I'd guess Rodwell wasnt as bad as the abuse he got but we'd just been watching Langer for a few seasons thats all.....

Monaghan is not very good at all and this seems at present to be having a knock on effect on his team mates, Briers hasnt played well for a while King has been shocking and its obvious Monas wants to get more ball to king so fans will get off his back and again this is having a bad effect on the team because King is so poor.

So to Answer your question Monaghan is a big pile of pooh

around 87 i think but not to sure

nah not my type

oh yes....a good attacking team and a bloody good captain both on and off the pitch.....last time we had a decent winger as well

Of the 1987 team, is there anyone in todays team that could replace any of them.

think only westwood would get in that team

Yes, but who would you remove to take his place. No way would it be Roberts, so you would take out Rathbone.

Does anybody remember why Anderson put Briers at Fullback?

Were we that short of full backs or was it something other than crap coaching.

In isolation I dont think any of those 3 players were / are crap. Just when they pulled on a Warrington shirt which is a bigger mystery than who took Shergar?

You know what, I cant remember that team from 87 feeling sorry for themselves for half a dozen games after they had run Wigan close like we now do when we have played saints.

He said he was going to be The New Lockyer.

Playing Briers at full back was good on 10th January 2002 as he scored 16 points when we beat St Helens 48-4.

getting him out of the line of disgrace to keep him fresh.

not sure why he then put penny at centre/wing

Quote from the time..
21st February 2002..

The Wire are hoping to muscle Saints out of the Challenge Cup on Saturday, Steve Anderson has 13 players in his train on squad for the game who can play in the forwards,Dale Cardoza is a surprise omission from the squad.Lee Briers is set to continue at full back a position he is quite happy to play he says " the new role I have is similar to what I have done before,peole have to realise it's not fullbacks standoffs and halfbacks in Ando's way." They are all similar,we want pivotal roles and if that means playing at fullback so that Steve can get someone else into a pivotal role then so be it.

" In this role I am only fullback when we are in defence,in attack I'm up there and organising like usual so to me there's not much dlfference." Tom O'Reilly at standoff captain Matt Rodwell at scrumhalf,Jon Clarke at hooker and Sid Domic at loose forward.It's Rob Smythe on one wing with Leon Felton and David Alstead in contention for the other.Centres will come from either Lee Penny David Kedwell or Steve Madden.

You know what, I cant remember that team from 87 feeling sorry for themselves for half a dozen games after they had run Wigan close like we now do when we have played saints.'"

Roparti
Foster
Roberts
jackson
Rathbone
Duanne
Johnson
Roskil
Holden
bishop
Boyd
Gregory
Drummond

Johno
Des
Ropati
Duane
Forster
?
Bishop
Boyd
Roskell
Jacko
?
Roberts
Greg

Total guessing at the question marks at Peters and Rathbone ???

Odsall with Barrow coming out of the tunnel in the background.

correct

I'd say the ground was Odsal with the Bradford Dukes speedway track around the ground.

If you think that team was good . That day we had Blake - Eccles - & Tamati missing

possibly rathbone but what a nice problem...as for mark roberts what a 2nd rower totally underated