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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:06 pm  
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Forgot about the gambling debts. Walters...wasn't the story that his wife & family couldn't settle...sure he finished up, at a future date, managing Catalans.

And he did almost as well there as he did here.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:30 pm  
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Only seemed to play when it was sunny, so in this country you know what that equates to!!


Only remember him having one decent game against Wigan at Wilderspool. As you say the sun must have been out. You could see he had the ability he just couldn't be arsed.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:35 pm  
Jon Clarke?????? Had a good career off being average,probably not his fault because he was never a hooker. And before anyone brings stats into it,we all Know if you touch the opposing player it constitutes as being involved? And believe me that's all he did.......... :FEVER:
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:16 pm  
In no particular order - Teitzel, Doyle and Currier.

Rocky Turner was pretty awful once he didn't have Mackey alongside him to flatter him.

Rodwell doesn't get on my list as he was treated pretty shabbily by the fans IMHO and was used as a scapegoat for Anderson being utterly clueless. He also gets extra bonus points for his postings on the old wolfweb forum, until the abuse he got became too virtiolic.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:38 pm  
Mateaki Mafi
Tony Totupo
Dane Dorahey
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Craig Teitzel
Kevin Walters
Matt Sturm
Matt Rodwell
Warren Stevens
Andy Bracek

They all stank.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:48 pm  
Cannot believe that David Kidwell hasn't been mentioned. I'm going to throw in Vince Fawcett as well.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:54 pm  
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In no particular order - Teitzel, Doyle and Currier.

Rocky Turner was pretty awful once he didn't have Mackey alongside him to flatter him.

Rodwell doesn't get on my list as he was treated pretty shabbily by the fans IMHO and was used as a scapegoat for Anderson being utterly clueless. He also gets extra bonus points for his postings on the old wolfweb forum, until the abuse he got became too virtiolic.


Thought Rocky was ok. Never had any speed about him but we've had a lot worse play at 6. Good kicker too. Scott Wilson and Adam Doyle strike me as the worst halves I've seen for us. Agree with about Rodwell, his young family bore the brunt of it. Shameful.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:20 pm  
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He'll be in his fifties now though surely?


Yeah, OK, sorry for the gratuitous pic of him as a right fat knacker, but he played like he was in his fifties when he was with us.
Roach remains the most disappointing signing ever IMO. He was a fully fledged Aussie international, with a massive reputation. He is named in the top 100 Australian players OF ALL TIME. He was, clearly, a proper player.
For Wire, though, he was bloody diabolical. Bossed a game against Keighley in the CC. Tremendous. Apart from that, he was toilet.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:44 pm  
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Yeah, OK, sorry for the gratuitous pic of him as a right fat knacker, but he played like he was in his fifties when he was with us.
Roach remains the most disappointing signing ever IMO. He was a fully fledged Aussie international, with a massive reputation. He is named in the top 100 Australian players OF ALL TIME. He was, clearly, a proper player.
For Wire, though, he was bloody diabolical. Bossed a game against Keighley in the CC. Tremendous. Apart from that, he was toilet.


Agreed....If ever somebody just turned up for the cash, it was Roach.

Players like Rodwell, Wilson, Sullivan etc, were not particularly good to start with, so it can be little surprise that they flop when over here, but as Worthing Wire says, Roach was THE best forward in World rugby at that time, so to turn in the rotten displays he did really hurt to see.

The most appalling thing, in that same season, Les Boyd came out of retirement for half a season, and despite being past his best, was still head and shoulders above Roach, who needed to take a close look at his compatriot for a lesson into how to actually earn the big wedge that Warrington had paid to them both.
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Re: our worst ever signings : Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:59 pm  
I reckon of my time watching Warrington the era 1995-1998 would have to go down as our prime era for making bad signings. We seemed to have a scattergun approach for signing players, a load of them were duds.

We've made bad signings before and since but nothing compares to that era for the volume of them.
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