Maybe immense was a bit strong but it probably seemed immense compared to what he did at half back.

No, did you?

If he was that good why did Canberra let him go?

Monaghan obviously came on to the radar following his performances for Manly (at hooker).

Therefore it is similar to the Sullivan situation but maybe not quite as bad.

Whatever the case maybe, Monaghan is undoubtedly on a large contract but has been severely disappointing.

IMO he isn't happy with life at the wolves which is probably affecting his form. I just hope he is big enough to admit it and gets himself back to the NRL. Same goes for King.

if he was no good then why did Manly sign him?

Did Monaghan ever play in the halves at Manly?

He was there for three years, did he play 3 years at hooker, or just the last year?

In the final year he played there at least once when Orford was out.

In the game I saw he wasn't anyway near as effective as he was at hooker.

I wish Jimmy would do it cos I really think he would be a revelation.

But maybe Monaghan would refuse if he only came here to play in the halves.

Although I'd take Hicks at fullback over Readon every day and twice on sundays

When Higham went off, did Mona's go to hooker then? I think he did, although I'm not certain...

Im not sure Robbie.

Although the the game was already gone at that stage.

So you watched about 5 games on sky/setanta or whatever and that was extensively? haha. What a joke.

Warrington signed Monaghan during the spell he was playing half-back at Manly and Phil Gould was cheer-leading him to be half-back for NSW:

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WTF would Gould know? These messageboard whizzes know the crack.

That's what I was kinda getting at before.

If he only played hooker in his last year at Manly, or whatever it was, we signed him in May 07 wasn't it? So I was pretty sure we'd signed him on his form as a half back.

How things have changed in the last 2 years.

Monaghan being compared to Gary Hulse

Monas is now the key player in our squad.
We can just about win without Lee but life without Monas is unthinkable

You must have been so bored to drag up a thread 2+half yrs old.

You must be even more bored than me to answer it. Or do you just get fed up reading about Wigan.

What's to say that if Hulse had been given a guaranteed starting position for as long as Monaghan did when he wasn't playing well, it could have been Hulse who was the key player in a top side? Obviously Hulse doesn't have the right accent.

Never mind the accent, Hulse didn't have the skill - end of!!