I haven't to be honest.... But someone who watches FAR to much rugby to be healthy for you, has told me that he is a tremendous player.... time will tell i suppose..... I will get to see alot more of him next season that's for sure.... so i will make my own judgement on him then...

Are they? Most teams in SL view the outside backs and wingers as non-essential positions. Look at our current SL champions and national team having Daryl Goulding.

No because the Aussies being the do gooders that they are, are all uppity about the 'bad publicity' that he created, so they are worried about putting off sponsors which is why he had no options in the NRL. He is going to probably have to play out the rest of his career in England, but thats fine by me if its with us, the two Monaghans are great players.

John Hopoate never had any problems...

Exactly, standard player. Solid but no spectacular. Same as (imo) Riley for you guys, does a job outside a quality centre.

More about the quality of the centre than the winger.

Well this is where we are revolutionising the game by going for strike centres and wingers. If other teams don't catch up with the Warrington philosophy they could be left behind.

This is a good point with M Monas and Matt King both needing time to get used to the UK. Hopefully J Monas will be acclimatised by the time he gets to us.

Actually after spending a year in Castleford he could be traumatised not acclimatised by the time he plays in the P & B

surely the prospect of moving to warrington after castleford will make the lad delirious! ive seen dogs with two heads in cas, and i wasnt even drunk!

I remember when Cooper returned from his loan spell at Cas last season. He spoke of how backward Cas were compared to Warrington in every aspect. I hope J Monas settles in but doesn't believe Super League is exactly as it seems at Cas.

No disrespect to Cas meant, of course.

Wigan got Ainscough and Tuson out of there pretty quickly.

Bottling it in the playoffs?

Surley we will break the salary cup with his contract.

we have a year to figure that one out. i fear it might not be pretty.

Moving to Castleford for this season then onto you guys for 2012

Couldn't be bothered scrolling through to see if it'd already been mentioned

He was due here for 2012 anyway. Just gets a year to settle over here now.

Seems we win all round. Let Cas take the one year acustomisation period and let them deal with crowd fines for fans signing "how much is that doggy in the window"..

He'll be a good signing. He's of excellent pedigree.

good signing tbh. as said year to settle in. then unleash him in P & B next season!

Honorary Beagle?

Rumoured to have had a better offer from Catalans. Frogs would probably be good at it as well.

Has anyone seen him around Warrington since he arrived?

No, but then again I don't live in Stockton Heath

Not surprised Catalans have swooped in. They have lost an awful lot of good players with Walters in charge (!)

i think i saw him at leigh cats and dogs home?