Good to see that he is here before Christmas to settle in and get down to pre season training with the squad. Am i wrong in thinking that generally the Aussie lads didnt come back for pre season till after Christmas normally? I think i saw Sandow in one of the recent squad training pictures, so it looks like everyone is here and training apart from the England lads and ones recovering from surgery?

I'm really looking forward to Gidley providing us with brains and leadership we've been missing over the past season or 2.

A lot of aussies are pretty straight talking and will tell you if there is a problem. Most brits will hide behind the stiff upper lip and gripe behind the scenes if there is any beef. Then the problem festers and gets worse and then hold a clear the air meeting. I can't see Michael Monaghan holding back if he had a problem and I hope that Gidley is the same. I think Tony Smith needs a character like that in the squad to help ensure that people's attitudes are on track. I hope Gidley gets to work with that soon because the ability is there in this squad it is just attitude and application that needs nailing down.

Yes, I am really looking forward to seeing this guy play, but I am expecting see him playing FB when Ratchford returns. Ratchford doesn't want the FB position simply because he is after an England shirt and there is too much competition there already.

I am also a bit surprised that there has been quite so much negativity about our chances for 2016. We do have quite a lot of lucky dip purchases, players that might suddenly kick on and come good (Wheeler, Cox, Bailey etc). But surely we have a stronger squad than last year ? I fancy we should make 4th but we will need a few of our younger players ( R&B Evans, Laithwaite, Hughes, Philbin etc) to kick on and really establish themselves.

Couldn't agree more with hopefully a more or less settled side, none of the young players have let the side down yet all doing what is asked of them.

Agree with this. I've been dipping in and out of the forum for a few weeks and most posts have been been hysterical whingeing. Not every one of our signings will be a masterstroke, but this one should bring in some real brains and composure which is something we lacked in spades in 2015.

Bet he's loving the weather.....

If he was in Blackpool today, he'd be loving the surf. Better than ewt he'd get in Bondi.

He describes himself as an adrenaline junkie who like exciting/ dangerous hobbies - but I don't think he'll getting too many adrenaline rushes at IKEA or the Trafford Centre or the various other venues that we Brits inhabit at this time of year.

Have they got rid of the skiing place next door to the TC? That might do the trick.

To be honest most of our players get the old heartbeat racing through caffeine abuse at Costa Coffee - I'm sure he will settle in fine.

" A man that is tired of Warrington is tired of life"

A walk down Bridge Street at 4am Sunday morning could be just the ticket, or a seafood meal at The East Orient. Or playing Russian Roulette with Clostridium difficile during a routine out patient procedure at Warrington General.

Perhaps a nice drink at the hop pole disco around tea time on walking day whilst wearing a Widnes shirt and accompanied by Ryan bailey...maybe holding hands with him.

New video posted on the Wire channel https://youtu.be/y4toZcJSBrs/

New video posted on the Wire channel https://youtu.be/y4toZcJSBrs/

always surprises me how few subscribers and views that gets, they should be pushing that more next year and pumping some more videos out.

That indoor facility looks first class and it must be earning it's keep atm with all the bad weather we are having.

Is ryan bailey doing an interview.

Surely, it's a interview?

I think it is an interview as it's before a vowel, as in this case will Bailey be giving an interview sounds correct when phonetics come in it gets tricky university sounds like yew so a university umbrella the vowel sound is pronounced so an umbrella, then there's the silent h and such, hope it helps, by the way I'm not a university lecturer it took me a while up in my mums loft digging out all my old homework.

Thanks, are we related by the way?

I enjoyed reading your post and it most certainly 'helped' (psss, my rather poor grammar was 'a' attempt at responding in a Ryan Bailey style, although I must confess that I haven't heard the lad speak).

Granted, it was hardly scripted by Barry Cryer, but, it obviously missed the mark until now.

Apologies fellow RICO

Cheers Uncle Rico but no we're not related, ricominciare or rico-min ch (as in church) i ari, is Italian for start over/try again as I was asked to do often after failing miserably to grasp the Italian language while there once for a few days with the missus.

An interview it is then.

Playing in the Xmas game according to Smith in league express.

Hope you stuck at it. Vale la pena per l'opportunita da parlare coi Italiani.

Sadly I did not, Purtroppo Non ho, we were only there for five days and though I picked up quite a bit from the BBC's Italian steps (beginners) I struggled with pronunciation they are also very expressive, the Italians were very friendly and helpful never making me feel embarrassed in any way, it was well worth the opportunity to try and speak Italian.