Good luck to him. He’s been a good player for Wigan and in the main always gave his all.

There’s obviously no room for him at Wigan and you can’t have them all. It’ll be interesting to see how quickly he can get back up to speed and adjust to what is a massively increased workload for League wingers.

I saw him a few times for Sale and his workload was low for a union winger. He just never fitted in unlike Solomona. A lot of people on this board assumes that he would walk into the England team but that was never going to happen. At Sale he quickly became fifth choice behind a couple of u21s and he never seemed to realise that he could not just wait for the ball to come to him. Too frequently you could see him stood by the touch line with no other player within 30 metres, in fact the opposite winger, on his team, always looked more likely to score on his side.

Well if that's the rule the RFL have got it backwards. The offer should be to entice those back that have recently left. What benefit is there in signing someone who hasn't played the game in five years compared to someone who has only missed a season, for example?

We'll agree to disagree on Marshall. I don't think it's harsh, blunt, perhaps but true.

Back to the topic, we don't have 4 top wingers. But should we have signed Josh? Lots of factors in this, salary cap, need to strengthen in other areas etc. I think he could have covered wing, centre, FB etc, but only if the price was right.

Good move both for him and Wire, I think, and I agree that he’s not needed here so I don’t see it as a missed opportunity on our part.

no way we could justify resigning him, would be a total waste of salary cap space

I think it's a bit harsh too. A better comparison for Marshall might be Tierney (comparable size?). For me, Marshall is a better player than Tierney, but Tierney has carved out a career for himself as a SL player and I don't see why Marshall can't do the same.

Wire fans are over the moon and he will bring some stability to their backs but he would probably not improve our backs as much as a big fast centre would.

I think we're all in agreement there.

Our priorities must be a centre and a prop.

That's a bit harsh KLW

Charnley was a very good RL player but he went to RU and was bang average. That by no means means he can’t be a very good winger in RL again but I’d expect him to take a little while to get going again.

I’m not really disappointed he’s signed for Wire, quite simply we didn’t have the room for him to bring him back and also I’m staunch against this re-signing players policy.

Good luck to the lad. I hope he goes well (just not against us!).

Give us Rat Boy back then.

I wish Josh well of course,but he should never have gone to union

I'm glad he's back in RL. Charnley's too small to be a good international winger nowadays, but can be a very good club winger. It'd be interesting to hear his views as to why RU didn't work for him, but its good for RL that not every code-hopper succeeds as it will put a bit of doubt into both RU clubs and younger players thinking of switching.

As a complete OT aside, its rumoured that the Eels have been talking with Ryan Sutton. Might just be gossip because the Eels have had a disastrous start to the season.

Briers is part of your coaching set up isn’t he?