so Iwas on the ferry from Manly to circular Quay today ( ) and noticed an article in the Daily Telegraph over someone's shoulder, all about how greta a start Gaz Ellis had made for Wests Tigers.

In hindsight, has Nobby been vindicated? Would GE for Reardon and Langley have been a good deal.

You may also use this thread to speculate on other deals that never went through, e.g. Paul Sironen in 1994, Mal Meninga, Jeremy Guscott (lot closer than many realise apparently), Brendon Tuuta, Steve Molloy...

Kelly Shelford was another we nearly signed. Then there's Stephen Price who we nearly got before getting big Joe.

Barrie Mac nearly signed for us in 97/98 IIRC.

Going back a bit further to the mid 80s there were stories in the T&A that linked the club with Wally Lewis and Argentine flyhalf Hugo Porta. Accordingg to an interview in Steam Pig with coach Peter Fox he thought this was a con by the board at the time as he knew neither signing was on.

The Ellis deal may have been a good one after all as he's developed into a better player than either Reardon or Langley. However the effect of the deal on team spirit could've been bad. There was some fallout over it and it didn't happen.

Can't believe we were in for Molloy, he was pants.

Would that have been anywhere near the problems caused by the Harris deal though?

We'd have gone for Harris anyway. Noble was convinced that Pryce wasn't a stable option at stand off.

We were linked with Andy Farrell in either 99 or 00, remember reading about it in league express

I think if we could have got the team to play with Shaun Edwards that would have been a good deal.

weren't we linked with alker and sculthorpe once upon a time?

Alker yes. The Sculthorpe stuff was a figment of the imagination of a lot of folk on the old official messageboard I think.

The Danny McGuire signing also never materialised did it?