Carmont - poor signing tbh and i doubt he will score more than 5 or 6 trys next year.

But lets be realistic - weve got no money to spend on a good centre and hopefully he can add a bit of experience to a good backline. Anything is better than that tw*t DV.

He isn't the best player to sign but will do a job probably,

Danny Peacock (Centre), Daniel Gartner (2nd Row), Michael Withers (FB/Cntre), G Bradley (Centre), Shontayne Hapi (Centre) Henderson (Hooker) and I am sure there are a few more.
All relativley unknown players that werent classed as superstars who all came to Bradford & won Super League titles & Challenge cups during their time there.
Pretty sure that Brian Noble had something to do with the signings of some of them & would have learnt from previous coaches i.e Brian Smith & Matthew Elliott about getting the right "Combination" of players with the right "Attitude" to join your club rather than the Mercenary type that we may have signed over the last few years.
From memory I dont remember him assembling too many Bad squads at Bradford and making too many bad signings either!

As for being as good as Vaeliki then basically if he can catch/pass/tackle and score more than 1/2 dozen tries in a season whilst only being on about 1/3rd the money then I for one would rather have him here than Jethro "Bandy Legs" Bodine Vaeliki!

My source reckons Wigan are spending the full salary cap. I think the source is right on this so why do you think Wigan are running on a low budget? Is Leneghan not letting the club spend as much as Whelan use to?

At least Carmont has signed, my source wasn't wrong on that one. Does this now mean that Wigan will only be signing one of Cooper and Pryce?

My source was certian they were both going to sign, apparently to be announced originally on 1st November but this was put back to when Leneghan annouced his takeover but was put back from then to allow him to spin a yarn about having no money to spend and for the signings to be confirmed 1st December in time with the take-over becoming official. Could be a big news week at Wigan next week.

I was refering to the money available to sign players. not our over all budget

We had 140 grand left if we can get Mathers, Carmont and another player for that then I believe we have done very well.

You could do with a half decent prop though.

I wonder if people are on the Manly board giving them a hard time about signing DV. I've been watching Wigan since the 70's and if I was to put together a worst ever XIII, DV would be one of the centres. If Carmont looks at least 25% interested and can put one winger away with one good pass he will have done more than DV in 3 seasons. Dv bucked up a bit in the last 6 weeks or so, but don't forget how s[ih[/iite he was for the rest of his contract.

We will see how he goes. Give him a chance.


Btw since when was 29 "old"????


He will be 31 when his contract expires. Hardly ready for the grave!

I agree but it is hardly a signing for the future either, our hands were tied i guess with the finances but i just wish we could have got him here on a 1 year deal.

I would think that we would have him cheap not least because of the exchange rate at the momment, which is why i think our final signing will come from Australia also.

Funny I thought Coley, Fielden & Feka where descent props. I was also under the impression Prescott & O'Carroll where descent youngsters who are going to the world cup. Must be mistaken.
Being a Saints fan do you want to borrow some money to help pay off your debt?

100% agreed, from the link given there is a very mixed opinion of him in Australia but the all round opinion seemes to be that he's a solid player and gives 100% every week. Which is more than can be said for Mr Vaealiki. He's got to given a chance, like said, you cant expect every signing to be the Matt Cooper's of this world, and the GF winning squads that Noble built wern't exactly full of all-stars.

As said already as long as he comes over and looks interested in catching, tackling and running he's pretty much there. I'm all for not looking to try and out bid everyone for the 'stars' its about time we got a bit of balance and players wanting to play instead of just turning up because we were the ones offering the biggest bucks. Don't get me wrong all teams need a name or 2 which we already have now we need to pad the team out with solid hard workers as well and bring the young guys through. Roll on 2008 and we'll see how we do.

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