I agree, shame on them, still didn't rate him as a player.

Dave Alstead?

if you think he warrents a spot over who is in there now, then paste him in WFiii.

There's no right for wrong in this, more like, more wrong for wrong!!

Still, I think I could have been a bit harsh on Matt Rodwell, at least he didn't hide from his critics.

I feel he left his position not because the fans wanted out, but almost like he was offering his resignation because he cared??

Sounds strange but how it seems??

That would be Matt Rodwell the Dally M Rookie of the Year and player of the year at 2 of his NRL clubs. He was a victim of association with Anderson, being surrounded by a crap team and getting injured at the wrong time. I always feel like sending him when he gets put forward as an example of a crap player. Now Craig Tietzel, that's another story......

I wonder if Mick Monaghan and Matt King would have been in this list if Paul Cullen and Jimmy Lowes had hung around a bit longer. Maybe if the poor form of the team had continued and they had had a bit more stick then they might have headed home and we would be looking back on them in a different light.
I have mentioned this before but the abuse the players took in Perpignan airport after a hammering against catalan in 2008 was terrible (Mainly the 2 players mentioned above), Just over 12 months later they were tearing Wigan apart to get through to the first CC Final in nearly 20 years and being hailed as gods.


I am shocked nobody has named Craig Tietzel in the list because his name usually crops up in these things even though we nearly won the league with him at Prop.

Maybe they were tearing Wigan apart in the semi partly because of the stick they were given.

Craig Teitzel??....



I remember him turning up with all the usual Warrington Guardian fanfare, with promises of some Aussie hardman who would rip bits out of defences - What we got was an absolute fairy, who had the running speed of a sloth.

What's amazing is that a side containing him AND John Thursfield managed to finish third, level on points with Wigan and Bradford!!.... Probably ample proof of just how good Jonathan Davies was during that season?

Indeed. Tietzel came with a nickname of 'the butcher'. That sounded good until we realised it was because he'd worked at a butchers shop.

Rodwell stands out a country mile as the worst player I've seen in wire shirt. The fact he came with a pedigree made it worse and showed his lack of commitment to the cause.

How many origin games and honours did Steve Roach come over with ? That didn't stop him coming over and being a lazy out for an easy pay day when here.

Ah, you beat me to it with Roach. Total waste of space in his time at Wire - a bloke who is on the official list of the greatest 100 Australian players of all time. Most disappointing signing in my time of following Warrington was Roach.

It shows how crazy sport can be at times - How did a team featuring Roach, Les Davidson, Phil Blake, John Woods, Des Drummond, Mike Gregory and half a season of Les Boyd manage to screw up so badly??....

Because they had Roach?



I think that was the season that Open Rugby magazine confidently predicted Wire would be unstoppable - I recall a pic of Peter Higham grinning inanely, flanked by Roach, Davidson & Blake. As you say, sadly, we proved to be, er, stoppable

The only redeeming memory for me from that season was the game at Headingley, when Davidson absolutely tore Leeds apart and made mincemeat of Sam Backo, who gave Roach a run for his money for biggest waste of money for that season....

Steve Roach was Hyde and Jettle

The laziest I ever saw until we play runcorn highfield away in the cc preliminary game.
He knocked them all over the place to show me the best forward display I ever saw in in primrose and blue.

Was that the game where Davidson could be plainly heard continually shouting, 'Get f***ing Cogger.'?
Canal Street, great memories.

I think it was . John Cogger. He was a great player for them.

Rumour has it that when Boydie rejoined that year, he told Roach he was "a disgrace to his country and himself". Roach certainly improved after that but yeah, generally a waste of space.

Davidson, on the other hand, was something of a hero of mine. In fact South Sydney have always been my fave NRL club by virtue of him & Phil Blake playing for them.

Phil blake...Please. if only.
Lets save him for another thread.

Our team has a record of making previously good players look bad, either through them being injured or being genuinely disinterested in being with us. Rodwell, Leroy Rivett, Mark Jones, Adam Fogerty, David Kidwell, Leroy Rivett, Andy Currier, Mike Ford and Manoa Thompson spring to mind.

I was going to mention Leroy Rivett, he was terrible for us, still living off those four tries he scored in the challenge cup final!

Mike "Pip" Wernham. Possibly the worst player in Western Europe.

Just hearing some of these names is enough to bring me to tears we really had some shockers and most looked like they couldnt be bothered to try.

I always remember my dad going mad as we were the only team not to chase a kick and let the opposition run at us and gain good field position. It really was his pet hate.

There's a few players, i think certainly from that 2002 season that were lamented just because of how bad the team performances were.

Rivett for example, for the first couple of games of the season, he wasn't bad, and i'm pretty sure he scored a few tries, yes he came on the back of his career falling apart but he did ok, people just remember him as being poor, though he did get buggered off partway through the season, but as we all saw, that year tries were very few and far between cos of the way ando had set us up.

everyone says crouthers, crouthers was terrible, he was pretty good at bradford and wakey, he barely played much first team for us before getting released, and then brought back.

just for steve51 though, Laughton was done before he came here, i dont think he wanted to admit it, his glass back was shot to pieces when he was at shuddersfield.

i effin hates antony swann though, he really wasted his bloody career.

He joined us in the April and played 9 matches before leaving in June, in that time he scored 1 try against Hull FC (his 3rd match).