Move Bridge to 6 and swap him with Bridge at loose?

Is danny bridge starting or on the bench

He'll be at Swinton.

Is this Padders Dream Team

I would personally like to see keV penny given a run against Widnes..
I'm sure most will disagree, as we all know he has a mistake in him, but he's a Warrington lad, bags of pace and gets the fans excited.and most of all he gives 110% which most haven't been doing so far.

He scored another two for Swinton at the weekend, I dont see why we brought him back if we dont plan on using his pace at least.

It's interesting to read Swinton fans views on Penny. They think Ormsby isn't fit to lace Penny's boots and have seen plenty of both over the last year or so. Of course there is a world of difference between SL and national league in terms of physicality and intensity. I wonder if Penny might get a run out when/if our halfbacks start creating some gaps.

I always got the impression Smith just didn't rate him at all, the re-signing baffled me.

The comments when we re-signed him made me sure he would be starting games this season:

Smith, who called Penny into the national squad while he was in charge of Great Britain in 2007, said: "We've been monitoring him for the last couple of years and watched his progress at Swinton. He's turned into a terrific player.
"He's always had very good attributes but he's now learned how to put these into place on a more regular basis, which was the key for Kevin. He needed to learn more about rugby league in order to apply them."

I have a hunch that SM may have had some influence in bringing back Penny.
It seems to go against the grain of TS??

I don't see why we've signed him if we don't plan on using him. But I agree with an earlier post, there's no point bringing him in if our halfbacks can't spread the ball and create things.

I think i would be tempted to bring O'Brien back into the halves & try Ratchford at loose forward......we might get a bit more half back ball distribution then. As much as i like Ratch ,he doesn't seem to like passing ,but he would give us some mobility at loose & Harrison could safely move to prop. Failing GOB coming in ,didn't Currie used to play stand off ?

I wouldn't want a player who seldom passes to play at loose.

By the way ,according to sportinglife, Danny Bridge is now on a season long loan at Bradford. That will hopefully give him some SL experience.

He will be 1st choice there now. Mullally was recalled to Hudds.

Bit of a surprise that considering our injury list. Perhaps Ratchford at 13 is an option but can't see TS going that way. Ben Harrison would be the obvious choice.

Kevin Penny was nothing more than a signing to sell a few more season tickets after a poor year of recruitment. Signing Penny got a lot of people talking, we signed him from Swinton knowing full well he would be more than likely playing for them all year anyway.

Danny Bridge, like Anthony Mullally, can be recalled at 24 hours' notice.

Who to.. his family?

well i, for one was more excited about seeing Penny come back and play for us than i was about any of the other signings, and pretty much all of the people i go with felt the same.. Admittedly a large proportion of our fans nowadays probably don't know who Penny is.

I heard a story that signing Penny was simply to fill your home grown players (or whatever it's called) quota. Part of the agreement was that he'd be loaned straight back to Swinton.

How true it is, I don't know. It came from a Warrington employee though.

Well its certainly evident that is happening whether it was the motive or not.

i dont think 1 single person was swayed into buying a season ticket when penny resigned.

Just looking at our squad and cant see how we would need him for the quota!

Maybe this is like an Abramovich/Mourinho situation.

Penny is like Shevchenko, the glamour signing brought in by the owner over the coach's head to sell season tickets.

Sounds like one for Nosey Parker to investigate.