I'm not held with my head to the screen. However if I want to read the forums, which I do, and seeing as you can't put moderators on an ignore list, I have no choice but to read his comments, well skip them, reading them or trying to skip his posts, or skip the replies to his posts does get tedious.

I've never been rude of attacked him, I merely want to ignore his posts but I can't without having to filter through each topic.

It's not difficult! Just ignore anything that he posts if you really want to.

I do it with Jonh all the time!

It could have gone horribly wrong too. I never met / read a union conert (even Gallagher) that complained until post career. My own personal opinion is that he is not yet equipped to play for Leigh at top tier Championship level which Tom Spencer clearly is and would gain more from playing for SWales or St Pats.

I have my doubts re the signing simply because of his age and with any convert they do not have the instinctive RL know how of a young League player. Somebody like Greg Burke has already got a decade or more instinctive RL experience / intelligence that Andy Powell will never gain.

Some fans say well he did not do any harm, well IMO he did not do any good either whereas Burke / Spencer / Greenwood could have ADDED to the team on that day. Playing with 12 men in wet conditions is a huge challenge. Why thow him in when the team is tired, depleted and conditions poor?

A question or two; who decided to sign Powell? IL or Wane. Who most wants him in the team IL or Wane. Is Wane under pressure to select him? We cannot say Jon H will rightly says BUT history suggests coaches are always put under pressure to select big name union signings.

In the squad for Friday.

Burke played and was poor on Friday as he was at Wakefield, and looks in need of a rest.

You could well be right Rogues but he could also have done better in the less demanding bar physically prop position and allowed a back rower to play LF. Replacing our best player in Lockers is a thankless task.

I could agree re Spencer not playing as he played on Thursday (I don't think Wane rates him for some reason) Greenwood didn't play for South Wales on Sunday so maybe there was a fitness issue, and I think Powell did o.k.
The weather forecast was for it to clear up around 7 p.m, but sadly they were about 2 hours out

Lockers was a great miss as was discussed on Superleague backchat last night.

I know Leeds fans will beg to differ but Lockers is the best player in SL.

Agree. Jeff Lima recons Lockers is the best player he has ever played alongside.

In the World Cup I would play Sinfield at 9 and Lockers at 13.

Back onto Powell, if he doesn't play on Friday I hope he gets a game for South Wales on Sunday.

I hope he is 19th man and personally I would send him out on loan to SWales for the rest of the season. Personally I tink Wire got the better 31 year old.

www.scorpionsrl.com/News/Article/29858

www.scorpionsrl.com/News/Article/29858

I really don't know how you can say that until at least the end of next season. Asotasi may do well or he could be a Josh Perry/ Ben Cross.
Powell may prove to be a very shrewd buy or a dud.

Nobody knows at this stage.

Because some people like to criticise the club for everything they do. Even if Powell does turn out to be a decent signing it'll still be the same people who "don't rate him." If we had have signed Asotasi it would have been the same people stating how he has been poor the last few seasons and would be comparing them to Perry/Cross etc.

FWIW I don't think Andy Powell is going to single-handedly win us the GF this season, but I'm willing to give him a chance. He looked off the pace on Friday but so did the other 16. Ideally now he'll get 4 or 5 games with the Scorpions and Leigh before we see him in the first team again. He's not going to be in the first-choice 17 if we've got Taylor, Dudson, Flower, Mossop, Lauaki and Crosby fit but he may provide decent backup for the end of this season. The time to judge him is after a full pre-season, not now.

How dare you bring common sense to the debate. Grab a pitchfork and join the anti-Wane/IL masses immediately!

He won't get any game time at Leigh as the deal is under 23 for DR