Nothing surprises me at this club anymore. We are a circus. Having heard what Musgrove had done it's no wonder he has been sacked. This is a bloke who had numerous convictions for assault before we signed him, yet we still proceeded to sign him, do we ever learn?


I can't believe there has been no club statement yet to ease fans fears over the incident. I was told about this incident on Monday yet here we are five days later and absolute silence from the club.


I thought I'd list some of the dud signings we've made over the last few years:-


Greg Inglis, Alfie Johnson, Peter Mata'utia, Ben Pomeroy, Anthony Gelling, Chris Sandow, Tyrone Roberts, Zane Musgrove, Brad Dwyer, Leilani Latu, Kyle Amor, Dan Russell, Luther Burrell, Billy Magoulias, Josh McGuire, Roy Asotasi, Lama Tasi, Welsey Bruines, Oliver Holmes, Greg Minikin, Gil Dudson, Mitch Brown, Bodene Thompson, Samy Kibula, Keanan Brand, Gary Wheeler, Ryan Bailey, Matty Blythe, Matty Smith, Mitchell Dodds, Dom Crosby, Rob Butler, Sam Kasiano. 


There's probably more I've missed.

We do have a massive history of signing crap players and desperation signings, but all from different coaches so it's a really weird one.
There are a few on the list that i wouldn't have put on though.
Like Smiffy said, Bodene Thompson was always a stop gap for us and i thought he played well for us.
Dodds was only signed on a one year deal and looked really good for us, but broke his leg really early in to i think only his 2nd game for us.
Dom Crosby i think his life circumstances would have affected anyone.
And Kasiano was superb for us for the first 10 games he played, then the WHOLE team took a massive nosedive it wasn't just one or 2 players that year.

But there has been some some head scratchers over the years, with weird drops in form.
Oli Holmes at Cas was an old school no nonsense machine of a second row, massive minutes. Tackled all day etc Then came here and that was it he just lost form.

Rob Butler was brilliant for London and i thought was a gem of a signing.....then came in overweight and never got fit again, then leaves us and gets in shape again.WTF

Asotasi i was over the moon when we signed him.......then it's like he was told he could clock off and relax on the field.

Rauhihi, absolute Tank of a man who won the Tri-nations in 2005....then came to us and apart from one Game against Leeds he became absolutely bang average and was dropped for Tyrone McCarthy.

There's been so many players i've seen come to us who's form has just disappeared, and from established players. It's utterly bizzarre.

I don't care how boring Wigan were to watch under him, but i think Wane is genuinely the only man i can think of that wouldn't take s**t and get the best out of players.

It’s no coincidence their form dropped off when they came here, they came for a different kind of well known culture.

What’s the deal with Powell.   Hearing that he’s on the way out?

Quite like this list for a self flagellation read!


Out of these and with no hindsight, who would you have signed? I'll go;


Ben Pomeroy, Chris Sandow, Josh McGuire, Oliver Holmes, Mitchell Dodds, Rob Butler (low risk a bit like Anthony England), Sam Kasiano. 

I think Holmes and Kasiano were decent signings based on their previous. Holmes is the one who really disappointed me thought he was a solid performer in the mould of Yates but with a scoring threat. 

He's up there with Roy Asotasi on the complete flop charts but unlike Roy who came for his retirement package Holmes seemed to have an air of indignation about his time with us