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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 7:51 am  
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. If Inglis hadn't got injured who knows what performance level he would have achieved in a wire shirt.


The guy was nothing but injured towards the end of his NRL career....that’s why he retired.

Granted SL is not the NRL but come on, when his signing was announced to come to the UK it was ALWAYS going to be the case of WHEN he gets injured again and not IF
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 7:58 am  
Whatever the rights & wrongs of GI's signing & whether or not we are a laughing stock, the fact is that we gave the sport in the UK a desperately needed shot of publicity & anything that does that needs to be applauded, in a time when the sport is dying on its ar$e.

We are also one of the few clubs that shows ambition & a little flair in its recruitment policy (probably why other club's fans display envy towards us) &, again, that can only be a positive thing.

Personally, i think fetching GI over was a gamble worth taking. Some work (Morley, Langer), some not so much (Johns, GI). .. I hope we continue to gamble in future, it would be a dull world if we never.
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 7:59 am  
Every player picks up injuries, its unfortunate when it's longer term. Regardless it didn't mean that signing Inglis was Always doomed. As has been mentioned previously Langer was similar circumstances and he turned out to be a great signing.
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 8:00 am  
Also, where is thing that he was tubby? I wish I was that tubby.
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 10:42 am  
Inglis signing has not worked out on the pitch. But it would be fantastic business sense. He would easily be able to pull the funds. Plus alot more back in merchandise sales baring his name. Whether we have to give him a percentage of the profits. I dont know. But it would of been good business all round. Whether it worked out or in this case. Gasnt worked out.
He would have done more in the background in relation to youngsters progression and profits on sales than him having a short playing wire career.

The off field stuff has helped more and has made a bigger contribution than anyone would ever think would be possible.
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:24 am  
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Whatever the rights & wrongs of GI's signing & whether or not we are a laughing stock, the fact is that we gave the sport in the UK a desperately needed shot of publicity & anything that does that needs to be applauded, in a time when the sport is dying on its ar$e.

We are also one of the few clubs that shows ambition & a little flair in its recruitment policy (probably why other club's fans display envy towards us) &, again, that can only be a positive thing.

Personally, i think fetching GI over was a gamble worth taking. Some work (Morley, Langer), some not so much (Johns, GI). .. I hope we continue to gamble in future, it would be a dull world if we never.


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Warrington are the only team that try’s to generate interest in a game that is dying on its ar$e. Whether it be signing players past it with legend status or having to put up with some of the cringeworthy social media posts that come out of the club, Wolfie etc. At least they try.
Reminds me of people slagging off Bradford Bulls antics back in the day when they played in front of 20,000 plus crowds week in, week out, only bad management of the club have seen them where they are today. I get the impression that we manage our club better.

Going back to the Bull’s that’s when Super League was in its prime and play off rugby at end of season was a novelty. To get the sport back off it’s ar$e we now need to ditch the Australian model, doesn’t work for us. Crikey it’s been going since 1996 and I speak to football fans who still don’t get the format. Why are we reliant on Sky’s money. Every contract renewal is worse than the previous.

Champions are proven over the season in my eyes not the last 3 games.

90% of the league games are now dull as dishwasher because we insist on playing the Australian style of rugby at half their standard in front of low crowds which in turn generates a boring atmosphere. Let’s get back to Champion status being given to teams who win the league over 26 games with a bit of British flair making it worth going to the match knowing the result matters.
We can then test ourselves against the Southern Hemisphere teams in meaningful international test matches.
Rant over!
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:31 am  
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We didn't know he would go back to play origin whe we signed him though or that he wasn't past it for that matter, so the gamble at the time of signing was the same. Pretty sure that's what SC is getting at. We don't live in hindsight, it was a gamble that could have paid off massively but unfortunately didn't.


Yes. The season before he joined us, Langer had quit 8 games into the season, the Broncos had been champions the year before but only won 1 of their first 8 and were bottom of the table. I think the story was that Wayne Bennett had been laying into Langer in that last game and he walked out of the dressing room as he knew Bennett was correct and he couldn't handle it, so he quit Kevin Keegan style. The Broncos brought in Ben Walker (who Powell later brought to Leeds as a replacement for Iestyn Harris) and turned things around and made the playoffs.

So when Langer decided to join us, the cynics could have said that this was a washed up player who walked out mid-season because he knew he couldn't hack it, and now his mates Renouf and Gee were coming to Super League he fancied coming over to drink and have fun with his mates.
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 11:57 am  
What I'd give for a Langer who could play in a modern Wire team - basically anything in the post-2008 culture - where we grew up and started acting like a professional club with professional players.
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:03 pm  
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Warrington are the only team that try’s to generate interest in a game that is dying on its ar$e. Whether it be signing players past it with legend status or having to put up with some of the cringeworthy social media posts that come out of the club, Wolfie etc. At least they try.
Reminds me of people slagging off Bradford Bulls antics back in the day when they played in front of 20,000 plus crowds week in, week out, only bad management of the club have seen them where they are today. I get the impression that we manage our club better.


Have to admit that era of champagne summer rugby in front of big crowds (even though Odsal was a dump) was hard to beat. All the tacky stuff just added to the atmosphere, especially in the sunshine on a Sunday afternoon or early evening.

Maybe when those in charge realise we need to attract new fans from outside the game it will become fun again.
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Re: Inglis Super league career over?? : Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:10 pm  
Sparky1967 wrote:
Top post.
Warrington are the only team that try’s to generate interest in a game that is dying on its ar$e. Whether it be signing players past it with legend status or having to put up with some of the cringeworthy social media posts that come out of the club, Wolfie etc. At least they try.
Reminds me of people slagging off Bradford Bulls antics back in the day when they played in front of 20,000 plus crowds week in, week out, only bad management of the club have seen them where they are today. I get the impression that we manage our club better.

Going back to the Bull’s that’s when Super League was in its prime and play off rugby at end of season was a novelty. To get the sport back off it’s ar$e we now need to ditch the Australian model, doesn’t work for us. Crikey it’s been going since 1996 and I speak to football fans who still don’t get the format. Why are we reliant on Sky’s money. Every contract renewal is worse than the previous.

Champions are proven over the season in my eyes not the last 3 games.

90% of the league games are now dull as dishwasher because we insist on playing the Australian style of rugby at half their standard in front of low crowds which in turn generates a boring atmosphere. Let’s get back to Champion status being given to teams who win the league over 26 games with a bit of British flair making it worth going to the match knowing the result matters.
We can then test ourselves against the Southern Hemisphere teams in meaningful international test matches.
Rant over!


Super league was in its prime when we had play offs and Bradford were a top team, but let’s ditch that because Warrington can’t win Grand Finals and football fans don’t understand it :D
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