Not a new signing but I openly criticised Chris Riley when he first appeared on the scene, and with that I may also have said he'd never make it in SL.

He's well and truly made me eat my words that boy.



Sid Domic was probably the last time I remember being underwhelmed by a signing only to have him come up trumps too.



Like Paul though, most of my thoughts have been the other way around.. Expecting a bentley continental gt and getting a D reg 1.1 Fiesta popular plus with rusty sils.

Matt Rodwell never had a bad game...

i wasn't overly impressed with the signing of atkins. myler was a good signing, a good young talent, and i could see why we were signing solomona, as he would give us something different, if we could keep him fit. never really rated him atkins at wakefield though, and didn't think he would be able to play inside king. those two look like a storming left hand side partnership at the moment, and i like the way they can interchange and swap between playing and wing. he always looks like hes going to make yards, and his off loading has been fine. good signing so far, but, having said that, i can't really think of anyone who has played this season who hasn't performed

Haha I guess your fishing, don't think that lad a single good game!



In relation to above, my first choice would be Graham Appo...

Westwood

But, Monaghan was a 7 in Aus for Manly same with Hicks. Both had excellent last seasons in Aus before they came to you.

Monaghan for me.

Great question Rob. Depends on your expectations really - due to ignorance, I expected nothing of Chris Hicks. He's been awesome. Due to their pedigree, I expected lots of Monaghan and King. Indifferent starts but Monaghan is one of my all time favourites. Turns out he's a good a bloke as he is a player which is saying something. I also have a massive Man-Crush on Matt King - he's great.



Michael Sullivan was a massive let down. Basically admitted he signed because of the ridiculous salary (I know they all do that but most of them have the good grace to lie about it) and was the worst half back since Beth Ditto played that ill fated season for widnes in 2005.

Not so much doubt, but Darren Burns was a million times better than I expected. Not just that, he was an insanely top bloke.



Nick Fozzard I thought had disaster written all over it, same for bringing back Mark Hilton. I guess looking back, we had nothing to lose really given the budget that we were operating at etc.



It sort of works both ways doesn't it, I thought Rauhihi was going to be immense, in reality he had one really decent season.

Took the words out of my mouth.

Trying to make some sense out of this post. From what i remember watching Monaghan played a hooking role at manly while orford was in the limelight..



And surely Hicks played as a winger & not a scrum half like you have suggested..?

Priceless.

At the time Warrington signed Monaghan he was excelling at scrum-half and was being championed by Phil Gould to be NSW's answer in that position for State of Origin.



It was after we signed him that Orford returned from injury and Monaghan moved to hooker to accommodate him.

Jimmy Lowes as assistant coach

solomona never doubted him at anytime,every time he comes on he makes me tingle,not in a gay way either lol.

bri carney

I think you mean he had one decent game, not season. Am i going to be the first to admit that i didn't want us to sign briers? Didn't not rate him, but at the time i thought John Duffy was top class(????) and i didn't want to see him replaced. What was I thinking???

I wasn't sure about signing Des Drummond. Or John Woods. Couldn't really have been more wrong

I thought signing Jedward for the opening game was bad, but they put some sort of voodoo hex on the 'Quins team.

Greg Mackay, didn't really think this blokes not going to make it because when he signed it was such short notice. First game at Wigan played a blinder scored a great try. Legend.

Really thought that Solomona was a BIG mistake but i was very wrong he has been playing well is a really good player!!!

Just thought he would be another Palea'aesina!!!! Obviously not though!!!

Toa Kohe Love on his first spell came over as an unknown 19 year old so wondered who we were signing, then watched him in the alliance over the winter and he was brilliant and hoped he would do the same in SL. Thankfully he did.



Nigel Vagana was another unknown really but became top try scorer, shame he was only with us for 1 season.



You don't tend to get unknown signings these days.

I'll level with you, I knew bugger all about Brent Grose.

andy johnns

Grose I'll grant you seemed a strange signing but proved his worth. Danny Nutley was one who I thought was too small to be an effective prop when we signed him - how wrong was I there! Mike Forshaw was another I thought we were signing too late in his career but gave us solid service for the time he was with us.