Quote Alffi_7="Alffi_7"Well we don’t know the agreed terms, they could put a clause in that states he can’t play for us vs them - that would seem sensible?'" Yes, they have done that :- https://warringtonwolves.com/news/2023/ ... r-of-2023/

Quote Alffi_7="Alffi_7"Well we don’t know the agreed terms, they could put a clause in that states he can’t play for us vs them - that would seem sensible?'" Yes, they have done that :- https://warringtonwolves.com/news/2023/ ... r-of-2023/

Correct.



Cas wanted him early but Wakefield wouldn’t allow him to become the enemy in camp.

Just reading some of the comments on the various social media about this signing, and it's fair to say that there is a section of our fanbase who really need to look up the definition of the word 'supporter'....

Why.

Correct DSM, that's why I very rarely go on those nowadays.

I'd say the majority of the posters on those sites know 2/3rds of FA about the game which is reflected in their comments.

Whereas on here it's a minority.......

Let's just say if I was Crowther, I'd be on the phone to Fitzpatrick or Powell and telling them he's changed his mind.



Basically slating him as a journeyman, who shouldn't be taking the place of our inexperienced kids.



I can put up with constant, tedious Powell out stuff, but immediately going in on a new signing is just nonsense and continues to show up our fanbase as a laughing stock to anyone looking in from the outside.

For all their potential, Holroyd, Whitehead, Thomas and Green are just not ready physically to match much bigger forwards in Super League.

Having said that Delaney, Nsemba and Walters do have the size.

Think Crowther will do a really sound job.

To true mate

At least got give him till this weeks booze up see if he can hold his Ale

I do like how irate you get at random people on the internet who follow Warrington. Tis entertaining.



I hope Crowther does well, I don't know enough about the lad to judge, so it's all performance based for me. Wish him well simply because if he does well, chances are we do well.

Can't complain, he's a decent player who strengthens loose forward and second row. Will do a decent job, and with Nicholson, Williams, Ashton, Thewlis and Wrench back it's looking much better for us.

I don't get irate as such (certainly not to the levels of this forum when we get beat), it just saddens me that so many of our fans are so retarded....

I suspect there are halliwell Jones era fans and wilderspool era fans... The second group of which have fewer preconceptions of signings and aren't as deeply affected by the hype that recent years marketing has had in generating unreasonable expectations for signings... in reality More often the ones without the hype on them deliver more

Signing a player who the bottom club in super league are happy to let go. Who is going to the second bottom team in super league next year.



IMO Lucas Green looked to be doing a decent job. He’d only get better with game time.



Him along with the other young guys must feel so alienated.

Lucas Green is a prop who should be ahead of Dudson in the pecking order so it's like comparing apples and pears. Whitehead and Holroyd are just not there yet and will get their time next year, but I see this as an OK signing. It gives second row cover takes the pressure off Nicholson to come back gradually, or even get some time at his preferred position at Loose, which will give us the chance to use Clark as an impact hooker. If we had signed him instead of Fitzgibbon for next year i wouldn't have been impressed but he can come here and do a job. I see it similar to Russell in terms of a signing.

Green is only 18, he can’t be playing every week. Holroyd and Whitehead are both edge back rowers, so not really replaced with Crowther. Thomas hasn’t played much, not sure why he isn’t getting a shot atm, either they don’t think he’s ready ability wise or physically.



Not sure there are any other youngsters waiting to come through forwards wise this year.

He’s coming into the squad for 10 games max. Our pack has been noticeably tired of late and this can only bolster them.



Is this any more alienating than handing a third rate Aussie prop a 3 year contract?

They probably feel the same as the young forwards at Wigan when they signed a 34 year old from the team second bottom of SL.

Wish him well. I've got full faith in the recruitment decisions.

Quite ironic that you compare the move for an at the time international prop who was mismanaged by your club when now you are signing the likes of Jordan Crowther because you are desperate for forwards.

Clearly you don't understand the meaning of irony.



If you'd bothered to stop trying to get the pie dribble out of your Ellgren jacket long enough to read the rest of the thread you'd have seen that yet another one of your lot had come on here BORING ON about how great your youth policy is and how bad ours is - even suggesting that our youth players are becoming alienated.



When in actual fact actions like signing a 34 year old prop who'd thrown his toys out of the pram and giving a 3 year contract to an Aussie prop who wouldn't get into most teams in Super League show that your lot are capable of recruitment decisions which might 'alienate' the youngsters just like the rest of us.

Once again ironic you choose to criticise Wigan’s policy for overseas prop recruitment.

Once again you misuse the term ironic and misrepresent what I am saying. I question Wigan's long-term investment in a [isubstandard [/iprop (that he is an overseas player is irrelevant - I merely used the term Aussie so you would be in no doubt as to whom I referred) when their fans are continually telling us all about the many great youngsters they have coming through...

Ironic that you think you can win trophies with a team full of young props.

You really need to look up irony in the dictionary

I didn’t mention Wigan in my post and was just chatting about Wire.



I post on here a fair bit as all my rugby mates are Wire fans so I have an interest, hopefully I add to the discussion rather than “trolling”.





I’d thought Wire had turned a corner young player wise, I remember signings like Bodene Thompson and Mitch Brown.



Thewlis, Wrench are doing great and have been getting consistent game time.



I just think it’s bang out of order to have a player sitting on the bench for the full 80 minutes. I understand it’s happened 7/8 times this year. Why not give them 10 minutes at some point?





I also think even if he’s not in the long term plans Riley Dean would have been helpful the last month or so.