Looking ahead to next year we are shaping up nicely. I still feel we need a couple more additions though.

Ratchford
Lineham
Atkins
Russell
Hill
Clark
Currie
Cooper
Akuola
Roberts
Goodwin
BMM
Patton
Westwood

Combined with some youth.....livett King Philbin and Smith. I'd like to see a specialist full back, another big man and a winger. What are everyone's thoughts?
Would you take a chance on Gareth Hoch? Rangi Chase? Todd Carney?
For me Brown has to go. So maybe a replacement for him.

What ever happened to the young lad who came over from union as a winger??

For me we need a winger

No to Hock, Chase or Carney for me.

Just wish Hiku would've stayed. But promising signings so far and personally I'd give Pomeroy another year.

Taylor Prell, who signed from Yorkshire Carnegie, on a 2 yr contract ? He went off to NW Crusaders on loan for a bit.

Looking at the pencilled in 2018 squad like that the thing that stands out for me is the possible lack of pace, an out and out speedster

This stands out for me, given the current recruitment I believe a winger would be a benefit, I am not sure about Pomeroy is he any better faster than the incumbants?

Taylor Prell has he or hasn't he made progress I haven't heard on that one?

SP may have a different plan for the incumbent wingers, which will show them in a different light and allow them to be wingers and not forwards.

Viva Kev Penny.

I don't care how many mistakes he made or if his defensive positioning was questionable, (IMO if a winger is facing a 3 or 2 on 1. the fault lies with the half, centre and 2nd row for not pushing from the inside) The face he had raw pace made him deadly. there is no substitute for it. on his Return to wire aside from the first season back, warrington never played to correct style to bring him into the game. Had he been playing wing in 2011 & 2012 hed have been laughing. If he'd been playing Left Wing at Cas this year Eddie would probably been stress relieving himself to his highlight reel.

Playing 4 scoots and a bomb to the corner will make any backline look cack. The fact that Lineham has still managed to cross 19 times whilst we're playing like that shows just how good of a winger he actually is. Lineham can shift himself an all. he's no slouch, look at the way he chased back several break away interceptions at the end of 2016.

Atkins and Lineham have enough pace between them on their edge, having said that though, Atkins REALLY needs to start playing like a centre and start creating some space for lineham and learn to pass him the ball when he does. All we need to do is palm Russell off and bring in another winger how can go full length with a clear set of heels. If we do that we should be ok with a backline of:

Ratch

Lineham
Atkins
Goodwin
<New Winger>

Roberts
Patton

The rumour was Prell was a Moran signing and Smith wasn't interested in the project. As it turns out he was only interested in cashing in his cheques. SO, Prell could be a pleasant surprise, or disappear as quickly as he arrived. Full salary isnt on cap so happy days either way.

Can you imagine being an acrobatic winger with pace playing on the edge with murdoch Masila and a good centre. ..?

They'd score unopposed tries by the sackful. .....

Hopefully opposing 2nd Rows and Centres wont know if they are sticking or twisting all season.

Hate to bang on about it, but the treatment of KP was one of my biggest bugbears of the Smith era.

Seconded.

Just one question about Penny, which Super League club has snapped him up due to him being the king of the wing? Penny was at times exciting to watch, but was very poor at times as well. He always looked liked a new recruit in a junior team who was new to the game but full of enthusiasm.

Seconded

I don't understand this love in with Kev Penny and that he was not treated right by the club. He scored a sackful of tries in the early games and then other teams worked him out. He was released by the club for not being good enough. Dropped a division or two, club brought him back and he still wasn't as good as what we had. I really wanted him to succeed being a Warrington lad, but he just wasn't good enough