Neil Cowie from Rochdale

Dean Bell played for Leeds RL for a season after leaving Carlisle
He then played 2 season's at the Eastern Suburbs club (Roosters now)
He was also a rep player for the NZ Maoris and also the New Zealand test side before Wigan signed him?

Quote BoredWiganer="BoredWiganer"Can't believe people would argue against the absolute legend that gave us this beauty being worthy of another wigan contract https://youtu.be/SVbW1fa_qxI'" It was a clownish thing to do. But it was a clownish decision by the referee to award the penalty in the first place. Didn't he afterwards say that he'd forgotten it was Golden Point? Thereby indicating that he might not have awarded the penalty if he'd known ... thereby admitting that it wasn't actually a penalty.

Quote BoredWiganer="BoredWiganer"Can't believe people would argue against the absolute legend that gave us this beauty being worthy of another wigan contract https://youtu.be/SVbW1fa_qxI'" It was a clownish thing to do. But it was a clownish decision by the referee to award the penalty in the first place. Didn't he afterwards say that he'd forgotten it was Golden Point? Thereby indicating that he might not have awarded the penalty if he'd known ... thereby admitting that it wasn't actually a penalty.

Anyway, jumping to the end of the thread, I'm pretty pleased, and surprised, about Cust. He always looked a talent to me.

Pretty sure that was Wayne Bennett.

Martin Hall from Rochdale too?

Henderson Gill from Rochdale

The real clown is the only man you haven't mentioned - Joel Tomkins. That wasn't a situation where he was stepped or the man was going down or anything. He has plenty time and still whacks him round the head in in GP in kickable range.

No the ref didn't forget it was golden point. How is he going to forget he's refereeing a World Club Challenge that has gone to golden point? It's not something that tends to slip the mind

Back on topic some of the top pundits and commentators are giving him some major wraps and are shocked we have secured him.

Sounds like they expected him to have a big future in the NRL and are surprised he has made the move to SL.

Very rare that you don’t hear a bad word said about a player by the pundits/media down under when they come here but I can’t think of anything but positive comments I’ve seen. The Manly fans are pretty much the same as well. In fact the only negative comments I’ve seen were about 90% of people on a thread on Total RL who were saying we’ve signed a nobody, a bargain basement player, a lad who a Championship club would usually sign etc etc. They’ve not seen him play like but it’s not an anti Wigan thing, honestly!

You know, just because you've some refereeing yourself, that doesn't mean you need to jump in and defend referees every time they're criticised. They make mistakes too. More than many professionals, I'd say.

Plus, it wasn't really the World Club Challenge, was it.