Of course we are all wise after the event.



Back in 2010,2011 I don't remember there being much call to move some of the older players on early. We could have started moving out say Morley, Carvell, Briers, Michael Monaghan at that point even when they had a couple of good years in them, and started freshening up the team but I bet if we had done that there would have been a lot of players criticising Smith if those players had gone on to have good years at other clubs.



It was like Cullen releasing Sid Domic and him going on to have two great years with Wakefield and one with Hull, during which time he was actually more successful than Warrington were!

Wasn't that to do with the overseas quotas? I seem to recall it was a choice between him and Appo and at the time Appo had just been named in the dream team.

But we did release Sid Domic to sign John Wilshere & Chris Leikvoll from St George Illawarra.

Both were off quota. Leikvoll had a UK passport (check out his profile) and Wilshere was KOLPAK

What were your thoughts when we signed Brett Hodgson?

Sorry "failing to get our real targets"? who were our real targets and why did we not get them?

Quote marshman777="marshman777"Sorry "failing to get our real targets"? who were our real targets and why did we not get them?'" Real targets Ukuma Ta'ai Jake Lillyman As reported www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... gn_a_prop/ Fallbacks Jordan Cox Ryan Bailey As announced by the club I have no idea why we did not achieve the signings of the higher calibre players.

Quote marshman777="marshman777"Sorry "failing to get our real targets"? who were our real targets and why did we not get them?'" Real targets Ukuma Ta'ai Jake Lillyman As reported www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... gn_a_prop/ Fallbacks Jordan Cox Ryan Bailey As announced by the club I have no idea why we did not achieve the signings of the higher calibre players.

Wasn't Hodgson only offered a 1 year deal by Hudds? So he wasn't deemed "not good enough" for the subsequent season.

Yes, it was a choice of two out of Burns, Domic and Appo and we made the wrong one in hindsight.



I guess the thinking was that Burns and Domic were similar players, and we had signed Forshaw and had high hopes for Paul Noone at the time, so Appo gave us something different with his pace.



Actually even if it came down to a choice of Burns or Domic I'd have chosen Domic, just about.

This argument about a player being deemed "not good enough" by their previous club is more about the judgement of that club.



I wonder what the St George Illawarra fans think of Mike Cooper.



Warrington agreed to release him so he could sign for the Dragons. If he was not deemed good enough for Warrington, how on earth could anyone think he was good enough to play in the NRL?

I seem to recall Appo being asked to move to fullback following Briers return from a long term injury it didn't go down too well with Appo, understandable as Appo was stronger, quicker, and could kick goals, if my memory is right then it turned out we kept an unhappy player, but no way could you play Briers at fullback.

That was not the best coaching move way back when.