www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/857 ... agons-move Cracking signing for St.George, Widdop is vastly underrated in my opinion, hard to stand out when everything goes through the freak that is Cooper Cronk, but I think he'll succeed at the Dragons.

www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/857 ... agons-move Cracking signing for St.George, Widdop is vastly underrated in my opinion, hard to stand out when everything goes through the freak that is Cooper Cronk, but I think he'll succeed at the Dragons.

I think its a good move to change Club, he needed to get out of the Shadows of his team mates at the Storm and forfill his potential as a play maker at another Club.

Not sure if the Dragons would be the best choice though.
He would have been far better off at Brisbane in my opinion.

The thing is though he isn't under rated down here hence the $2.2 Million 4 year contract, nor are many of the other Melbourne players. They were talking about this Melbourne 'Myth' the other week. I do agree that he doesn't always get the praise but that will always happen at a club that has so many superstars.

Forward that to McNamara!

Wonder if Chase is still off to the Dragons then?

How come player transfers such as this one and the Soward deal get announced so early in the season?
If this were in SL, we might hear plenty of rumours but more often than not the clubs would wait until towards the end of the season before officially announcing anything.
How will the fans react towards Widdop and Soward now for the rest of the year? And what's stopping Melbourne from simply dropping Widdop completely and playing Finch at 6 instead?

Why would they?
The Storm want to win as many games as they can, Widdop is a far better player than Finch.

Not sure if this is a good or bad move for him really. Great to get out of the Cronk/Smith/Slater shadow but more potential to be shown up and have a lot more pressure put on him.

Looking forward to see how he goes, potential England captain in the future?

Could go either way. Plenty of player have moved on from the Storm and looked a lot worse. Adam Blair the latest.

wow $2.2million contract, that is serious money. Yet Mcnamara doesn't think Widdop is our first choice stand-off

Great move for him!!!

He will be earning more than AU$600,00 a year! www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/n ... 6624763122 That is real money. How many Super League players earn that much?

He will be earning more than AU$600,00 a year! www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/n ... 6624763122 That is real money. How many Super League players earn that much?

on the dragons forum they think they will pair up widdop (who replaces soward) and chase together in the halves.

I am pleased that Widdop has made this move so we can see how good he actually is when he isnt surrounded by superstars. Personally I think he is an average player playing in an outstanding team and this will be a bad move for him.

Well Craig Bellamy & Steve Price have a different opinion to yours. Think people forget that Widdop has kept Brett Finch (who was the best stand-off in SL last year) out of the side.

Spot on!

I think Widdopp has real potential, but it will certainly be a big jump for him to be one of the main playmakers (which is the only reason I wouldn't necessarily automatically put him at 6 for England yet).

I wonder if that in fact played some part of his decision to move? I've no doubt that the plan would have been for him to take over responsibility at the Storm once one of Smith/Cronk retires, but that could easily be 3 years away. That's a long time to be waiting in the wings - not to mention probably earning significantly less than he will at St George in the meantime.

Anyway, as a supporter of GB/England I wish him all the best - and Chase too if he moves to St George.