i miss the days of us signing over the hill aussies!

looking at the signing of Thornley and at the progression of Gelling it appears that IL/SW are hoping to take care of George leaving and then this leaves us a massive cap space to address the hole that Tommy will leave........If there isn't a class scrum half ready to promote from within or an available british option then we might be able to tempt an NRL player who is of origin quality.......

Watched most of Leeds Carnegie's home games this season, whilst the team performed poorly, Thornley was the stand-out player in a poor back line, constantly making breaks and offloading well, he suffered from having lesser-able players alongside him not reading his play. Im sure he will thrive at Wigan.

Thanks for that, good to hear from someone who has watched.

When Thornley left, those "In the know" were certainly disappointed, and i don't refer to myself there. But it was overshadowed by the JT departure.

Hopefully he can step in to George's shirt and leave a good chunk of cap to bring in a quality 7 (plus Finch, SoL and McIlorum need signing up ASAP). A possible 1st choice back line next year of:

Sam
Charnley
Goulding
Thornley
Pat

with Gelling eventually taking over from Pat.

Glad hes back, excellent potential.

You could well be right, I put them that way round as I understand Thornley played a lot of his junior rugby at centre, whilst after seeing Gelling I think he has the attributes to make a better winger. His defensive positioning is still very iffy, which is why I wouldn't really want him in the centres, but he has an excellent work rate, good pace and is good in the air. I think the next 10 or so weeks will tell us more, if he can keep hold of the left wing spot while Pat's injured. More performances like last week please Anthony!

I know nothing of Thornley apart from at last years shareholder meeting Mr Lenegan said that he didnt regret losing most players, he only regretted ever losing two, and one of them was Thornley.

Sounds promising to me

What's Steve Diamond going to do at Sale now, he said recently that Thornley was the future at Sale RU whom the backs were going to built around, also i didn't think he fitted in with the rah rahs i read his profile--- fav papers---- the Sun and Wigan Evening Post!!! not exactly a Times man!!! welcome back Iain another good player for our talented back line.

Perpetuating and revelling in that myth - that Union players are somehow superior intellectually to our lads - is one of the main reasons why our sport has stagnated.

Very strange that you say this, considering we all know Madge is an ultimate professional. I think he'd rather concentrate on Souths than to advise us on players, or even put in a good word for us on other certain players