With Brian Carney signing for Wire and them having Chris Hicks on the other wing with Riley available for cover, does this mean Penny could be staying longer than the agreed month?

With the Carney signing I think it's highly likely Penny will be on loan to us for the rest of the season.

Yup!

Not according to Tony Smith - doesn't change a thing apparently.

I think we will have him until Smith sees an improvement or if Warrington suffer some injuries.

Why has he said it's one month and one month alone?

not saying Penny doesn't have a future at Wire just that if wire where willing to loan him now surely he won't be playing in next month or so now they have a new winger!

I think Smith would be foolish to say otherwise. He wants Kevin to have game time, and no doubts we want him to stay, but Wire aren't blessed with large numbers of speedy backs so he will want to recall him if necessary.

I would imagine it will continue to be a month-by-month loan arrangement.

Why would you want him, batley made him look like a pub player

More like the rest of his team mates made him look like a pub player!

Anyone would look poor when you only pass to him about 3 times. There was a perfect opportunity to kick to him late in the 1st half from a scrum but Doran just picked up the ball, made 2 yards then took the tackle. Penny's very specific attributes mean he's never going to be an all round player, but if you use him in the right way he can do some very good things. Its all about playing to his strengths, something we did do to a ceetain extent against Gateshead, but certainly not against Batley.

you can keep him.

I seem to remember a certain winger in a similar mould from the late 80s being hailed as a god because of the way his team played to his strengths.

I think Penny will develop and improve. He has great pace and can score some wonderful trys. He works hard and wants to do well for himself and his team mates.

I think he will be a great asset to Widnes and I hope he comes back to the wire the better for it.

Good luck to Kev and good luck to Widnes hope you keep improving. Hope to see you in Super League soon.