Chilly just tweeted Widdop saying: "what's this about you coming to the wire??"

Anyone heard anything about this?

Oh dear.

Yes he is coming to Warrington............................ But he will be playing for St. George Illawarra on 21st February in the World Club Series.

Haha!

Oh dear, indeed...

The Warrington Wolves wiki page had Widdop as a 2015 signing to be announced November 2014.

Someone was clearly playing a joke and Hill must've seen a pic of it and was having a joke with his fellow England international.

Codswallop......every man and his dog knows we've signed Cooper Cronk.....

The Wilderspool Wiki page had the Bevan Stand re-named as the Kerry Katona Stand, in honour of her efforts to promote the town.

Our next door neighbour & the bloke across the road are knocking off.

I think Hill was having a joke with Widdop, nodding at the rumour mill, in light of the WCC. My brain just wasn't engaged when I read it (or for an embarrassingly long while after...)

My only defence is that I thought it was highly unlikely given what has already been said about next year's HB set up.

Got to love Wikipedia!

I was reading a wiki page of a famous fan of ours a couple months back and the last paragraph was particularly funny, not sure if he wrote it himself, I doubt it, but wiki is a funny place.

Danny Dyer had his changed to Malcolm Smith after all the ribbing Keith Lemon gave him.

Jon clarke's is still funny even though some stuff has been removed:

Wasn't Roskell actually second in that vote and Thursfield third??.....

Are the rumours of cronk coming actually true?

Yes.

Might as well give us the double now then

Yes the rumours are true, but we are not signing him.

Westerman?

Remember us getting linked with him while he was at Cas. Wasn't he the next Andy Farrell?

I rate Grix higher than Westerman.....much higher

I wouldn't swap Westerman for Grix either. Just a shame Grixy's injury record to so horrendous. Hopefully once he's back from his injury he can get a full season. I was touting him as our next Captain at the start of last season but you need your leader on the field not in the stands.

I would say the captainship ought to go to somebody who commands respect from the players around him, him being on the field makes little difference.
That's the job of the playmaker organiser to command respect on the field.

Someone should tell Wigan and Sean O'Laughlin that.

What did they win last year? and that's no disrespect to any visitors. I don't have any facts (can't be bothered) on games played/won with SO'L in the team but I think the common consensus is that they'd like him to be playing an active part.

I don't know whether his games played ratio was better the year before when they won, but if it doesn't make a difference that 'approach' may suit Wigan due to their structured style of play. On the other hand recently we have been better with the likes of M Monaghan leading us around the park and calling the shots, or Morley 'putting the willies up the opposition' ....ooooeeer missus so we can get on top and play off the cuff, expansive RL

I'm with Wolfpack here give me a leader on the field every time, the commanding respect thing should be a given, if you've got to ask for it you probably haven't got it

If I recall we have had spells of captain on the field and a club captain, then after Briers it was Moz with Briers helping in the background last season Westwood/Mona's and through it all the captains have had long spells out injured while during those periods Brett, House, Grix, Higham, JM and Bridge have stepped in one way or another as leaders as and when needed

Duckie gets as near to it as you can captain should be someone who is respected within the club, usually a familiar player who leads by example also having a steadying influence.