The lad will improve with us and give us some much needed pace.

Gidley hasn't had a good season and I think it's interesting that Gardner has improved considerably since Meli started playing as his centre. However, Gidley came alive in the last few minutes of the match last night. I don't know what happened to him but all of a sudden he looked like the Gidley we once all knew and loved!


Shenton had his moments. I'm sure it was a very mixed game for him last night and he will have been aware that the fans would have been watching him: not a prospect I would relish at Knowsley Road!

I agree on what you've wrote about shenton and posted the same thing today.

I think he might have been caught up in it all. It was maybe his last game for the club, he was playing the team he'll be playing for next season and knew he'd be watched on everything he did and also it was a big day in the first place for obvious reasons.

Im sure he will be great signing for us. He took his try well and took a stud in the face as scoring it but was straight back on his feet, unlike few brittle players we have that would have been rolling around the floor in agony.

I have a funny feeling that all you critics of Shenton will be eating your words this time next season. He'll thrive with you lot.

I agree mate.

Ive always liked shenton from watching him the year cas was playing in the NL and got promoted.

Cas had some great young players that year in westerman, dixon, shenton, wainright and kept faith in them the following year in super league.

Ive always watched shenton and the young lads at cas to see how they got on at super league level, shenton has got better and better every year.

It's a shame cas have lost a young player they shown alot of faith in but i can see why he's left for saints and will be great player for us.

People have moaned for years saying that we have no pace in the back-line, we sign a player who uses pace as his primary weapon and people still moan. It seems that people are happier with 'bargers' for some reason these days.

meli had him in his pocket! maybe meli was proving a point to the saints board that he is a very decent centre?

Looks like he will be good for us, not sure he fits well into the way Cas play, at least not tonight. Get him on the end of a rangy Eastmond, Pryce link-up he'll score bags.

I'm pretty convinced he'll go well for us. He's quick, has good feet and defends well. It's probably fair to say that he's played better this season than he did last night, but I'm excited to see him in the vee.