Over the last 2 years most of the players signed have proved many wrong including me. Especially the Welsh props and the 6 and 7 combination we now have.

The club structure turns average players into good one and good ones into great ones. They will improve with us or a hungry 19 year old will take their spot. One small note though i will not judge them on their performances for the Broncos it must have been tough to motivate yourself day in day out knowing you were getting beaten. A change of clubs will be a culture shock for both.

Hopkins is already better and will become far better than A.Powell will ever be.

So did Henderson Gill...

I am totally willing to give Clubb a chance but people really should stop bringing up a game from 4 years ago when he played in a position he's not played in for nearly 2 seasons as an example of his class.

Seem to remember the same thing being said when we signed neil cowie and billy mginty and they did,nt turn out to bad.

I think like many i like to see big name signings. But I'm reminded of the story Jack Charlton tells about a conversation with Alf Ramsay. Jack said to Alf "Why me boss, there are better players than me out there", Alf replied "Yes Jack there are, but the best players don't make the best team".

That joke is absolutely terrible, I hope your singing voice is better (as your photo/avator? suggests) when you are co-opted into the new singing section at the DW.

For every McGinty and Cowie there's a David Vaealiki and Jamie Ainscough.

Interested to see what the boss sees in these two. Just hope that they have been bought with a purpose as opposed to being a project.

Wigan must have seen something in ainscough and vaieleki to sign them. Vaiaeleki had played for the kiwis and ainscough had played origin so they can,t have been that bad. Having said that they did,nt perform for wigan.

Interesting points.

Firstly Wigans main target was Mark Gasnier, we clearly invested time and money in securing his signature but for whatever reason Gasnier decided to remain at St.George. We then signed Vaealiki and took a huge gamble knowing he was injured - when his signing was announced I was told by a member of the coaching set up at the time that the club knew full well that his recent injury would prevent him from running over distance.

Jamie Ainscough is another interesting one - he looked uncomfortable at centre (he was brought in to replace Renouf) but when moved to wing showed what he could do and came up with some key plays which helped secure the Challenge Cup - How did Pat Richards look at centre in his first year? - different player when moved to the wing.

Good points well made. Did,nt realise vaieleki was signed with an injury.