Quote: WARRIOR5 "How did Lenagan get it so wrong? You mean winning the Grand Final, Academy Grand Final and Womens Grand Final. I think he knows what he’s doing.
I’m not disagreeing for the sake of it but it sounds as though you’d be better off supporting Warrington as only big name signings will suffice. The irony being you would, I presume, be over the moon if we signed Walmsley from Saints... who was a championship player.
I understand the rationale with Sammut but he’s played one and a half games, how have you so quickly concluded he is no good? Hankinson though is unfair criticism. We saw him a few times last year and he was very strong until he got the eye injury. You can’t write him off just because he’s from the championship.
I also don’t understand the dislike towards Bullock. Is he the finished article? No. But I don’t think anyone is saying he is. Does he have potential to be an impressive forward with arguably his best years in front of him? Yes. Barry and Terry have both been full of praise for him on sky, and something tells me they know a little bit about what a good forward looks like.
The championship is full of talent which can be turned into top players. If you can identify that talent it’s a shroud investment. Some risks will work, some won’t.'"
You must be Lenegan or related to him?
Of course he got it wrong. Look at the state of the team through years of 'value' signings. The real genuine talent has been leaving the club for years and largely been replaced with cheap project players or players that simply are not good enough.
Winning the GF just papered over the cracks and was more to do with Wane having a certain knack of being able to get the team running through brick walls and defending for their lives for a handful of games at the end of the year, it certainly wasnt due to Lenegans great player recruitment of late, in fact the only really quality signing he made in the last few years has been Greenwood.
Most of this forum has been stressing the need for a quality centre, prop and a halfback for years and we ended up with another project (Hankinson), a player that was deemed not good enough for SL years ago (Sammut) and a project prop from the championship (Bullock).