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The last really GOOD british player we signed : Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:43 pm  
Who was it? Ive just been sat trying to think and can hardly pick any really good british signings, possibly in the last 10 years :?
Many have come with huge promise and simply been no good

Stuart Fielden - Half a million pound spent, world record transfer fee and monster wages. Ok he has improved slightly but in the big scheme of things, rubbish signing

Micky Higham - Couldnt fault his effort or passion but theres a good reason his contract wasnt renewed. Abysmal passing game

Richie Mathers - one of our worst signings ever

Mark Calderwood - Again, good effort but not good enough. Rubbish try scoring rate and often couldnt make the first team

Andy Coley - Absolutely rubbish this mon. Ive seen more enthusiasm in a dead dog

Danny Hill - Cack

Danny Sculthorpe - Far too injury prone and loved throwing a big daft pass out

Danny Orr - Another who came with a good reputation from Castleford and simply didnt deliver. Played ok in his last 6 games, thats it.

Wayne Godwin - Not a bad player to be fair but never a world beater

Those are just a few. Other superb British signings include Wayne McDonald, Tim Jonkers, Liam Botham and Oliver Wilkes. We havent actually signed many British lads at all come to think of it. We used to be the best at this...
Andy Platt, Martin Offiah, Kelvin Skerrett etc and now we have to make do with people like Andy Coley. Why?
Ive gone through our past ten seasons and the one who Id say has been a reallty good british signing is Terry Newton and at a push (a big push!), Danny Tickle.

Everyone else we've had have been imports or young lads who ave eventually been fired off
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:45 pm  
Probably Brian Carney or Terry Newton
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:46 pm  
Newton and Tickle, thats it.

This thread shows how big of a joke both our club, and british rugby league is becoming in terms of quality of player.
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:46 pm  
Newton was the first person who came to my mind.
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:49 pm  
Sorry to be pedantic but Tim Jonkers is Dutch. :wink:

I think the main thing should be how many GOOD players have we ruined? You do not go from being the leagues leading scorer two years in three to a bag of crap overnight.
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:55 pm  
Newton and Carney are the only two I can think of. Fielden should be but he has turned into average player at best...hopefully when nobby leaves we will get someone in who can help him rediscover his bratfut form
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:02 pm  
It depends what you mean by good. Fielden was good,his signing was on par with that of Offiah in the 90's but he hasnt worked out as good as we hoped. So whilst i get what your saying, its not really that we have not signed good players its just that they seem to become poor at Wigan. Also dont forget that the likes of Andy Platt,Offiah etc. was playing in a team that was already great. Fielden came to Wigan when we were really poor and hasnt had the calibre of players around him that Platt/Offiah did.

On the other hand we have also signed some very poor or average British players as well. Coley would be ok as a back up player but when you think he is supposed to be a first choice prop then you start to realise why Fielden is not as effective for us as he was at Bradford.
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:06 pm  
As RHJ said, Fielden was the last good British signing we made, it just hasnt worked out.

In terms of performance, it has to be Carney/Newton/Tickle.
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with dave bolton and billy blan
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john ferguson and brett kenny
a team that plaaayed the wigan way
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in 95 we won them all
tuigamala, faz and paul
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:08 pm  
AJ wrote:
As RHJ said, Fielden was the last good British signing we made, it just hasnt worked out.

In terms of performance, it has to be Carney/Newton/Tickle.


Fielden. Good signing on paper. Awful in reailty when you think about it
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: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:09 pm  
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Newton and Carney are the only two I can think of. Fielden should be but he has turned into average player at best...hopefully when nobby leaves we will get someone in who can help him rediscover his bratfut form


Hopefully Fielden will be shown the door when Nobby leaves.
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