Saddened! wrote:
I doubt that. Brett Kimmorley said he was in talks with Warrington and Saints weeks ago. There have been rumours for the last couple of weeks that he'd signed for you, bouncing between that and him signing for Saints and Catalans as well. It's well documented that he's been in discussions with a few SL clubs. Tony Smith has also been quoted today saying you were interested and basically are awaiting his decision. If it were purely financial I think you would be top of the list, but I think the link with Holbrook is probably the thing in our favour currently.
I doubt that Brett Kimmorley knows much.... Steve Mascord one of the better Aussie Journalists that actually seems to know a bit about Superleague mentioned We "made a play for Barba" on Sunday Morning of Magic weekend. I find that astonishing if he was a genuine target.
and from what I read of the Tony smith quotes it sounds as if we are waiting to see if he wants to go to saints and if he doesn't we could offer him something. (That may be far away from the truth but thats what it sounds like to me). Again hardly a ringing endorsement of being a number one target for us.
the Holbrook thing that's not really a strong link, He was coach of the Canterbury Bulldogs New south Wales cup side (reserve grade), Barba was a star of the NYC side (under 20's team). So he most likely never played under Holbrook.
the best way to look at this is how many fans will laugh at us for signing Barba six months after our last bad boy Aussie mercenary laughed at his Wire contract and did a runner back to Australia.
what it does highlight is that if he goes to either Saints or Catalan it will make our attempts to get out of the bottom 4 much more difficult.
