It’s hard to judge anyone at Wire because everyone becomes a bad player there in this past 2 or 3 years (it’s like Man U in football). Look at Tony King for example. Sam Kasiano was a good player for Catalans and while he is past his best years, I could see them getting a tune from him for a year, especially in the absence of Paasi.

Looks like Powell to Warrington is a done deal.

Good luck to him, think he will be a good signing for them as he will bring some much needed on and off field direction and leadership to their club.

Clearly to offset King coming back to the dressing room with a winners ring haha they don’t want to many players crowding round him to marvel at it. Good signing for the leadership and great in defence however might slow down the feed to Williams. Good luck to the lad been a great servant of Wigan. The Dwyer signing now appears wasted cap money.

Saw a rumour Dwyer may move on to Salford without playing a game for them. Talk also of Partington going to Wire and then Shorrocks to Salford. That would all fit in terms of filling positions for those teams and it would keep their Wigan quotas up!

Makes the Micky Higham to Wigan move look simple

That all actually makes perfect sense despite the complexity of it all.

Dwyer and Walker are both “scooting” 9s.

Powell and Walker makes much more sense.

Partington has been a target for Warrington for some time and Salford need a senior 9.

Shorrocks needs to be playing first team, but unfortunately his opportunities will be limited with us.

But this time two other teams suffer

This King to Saints rumour is a strange one. I thought nothing of it when I heard and I would still be amazed if it happened but the fact that John Davidson and Aaron Bower have both mentioned it leads me to believe there have been some conversations.

The fact that Saints and Warrington are refusing to comment adds to the intrigue.

I don’t think it’s that strange, if it’s true Burgess has obviously said he’s happy if they let King go and they’re pretty well stocked at centre to be able to let him leave and have been linked with Olam I believe? I personally thought it was an odd reason for them to want him back in the first place, just the fact he works in well with the marquee ruling. He doesn’t seem keen on returning to Warrington and was pretty poor for them prior to leaving, granted he had a great season with us but I don’t think he’s worth marquee money. Obviously the ship has sailed with us signing Keighran so we are not in a position to sign him unfortunately so he’s going somewhere else.
If it does happen it won’t be nice seeing him line up against us for Saints but that’s sport, especially a salary capped sport where you can’t keep everyone you want too.

Well that seems to be the end of that https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/sport/23 ... ref=twtrec

Well that seems to be the end of that https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/sport/23 ... ref=twtrec

The Warrington Guardian version does go on to say the Powell signing to be announced in the coming weeks.

Saints tried getting Kasiano on the cheap but he wasn't willing to take the paycut/Wire weren't at the time willing to contribute. Him and his family live in and are settled in St. Helens by all accounts if that means anything.

I was talking about King but if they could get Kasiano on the cheap again it’s not that crazy, they’re short of props and it’s a salary capped sport so you can’t be packed out with top quality, maybe they feel they could get more of a tune out of him than Wire have.

Confirmed Cust has signed for Salford on a 1 year deal, hope he does well there. Think it’s a great move for him.