Oh do me a favour. I could have probably done OK against Runcorn bloody Highfield. I also remember him getting lairy with some poor Keighley player in the Cup that year. What a big man.

you obviously wasn't there to come out with that statement.
be it Runcorn or not, he played like I've rarely saw a prop play since.

If the best thing you can say about Steve Roach's time in a Wire shirt is that he tore it up against Runcorn, I'll rest my case.

Exactly - He was nothing short of a disgrace....It says it all that probably his best game for Wire was the Cup semi with Wigan at Maine Road - Only when it was in his own selfish interest of possibly getting a game at Wembley, did Roach bother to show up. For run-of-the-mill league fixtures he barely bothered to turn up.

Runcorn highfield haha! I would love to know what he did that was so special!!

Some good came out of that season. Mark Hilton came back and did well, Nick Fozzard was good and Domic was a star. However if we all think about, the coaching team and the backbone of that side (maybe backbone is the wrong word in this case) would make our worst ever team.

I know you take some stick on here, duckie, but you are bang on with the pathetic grief these 2 suffered at the hand of the Wilderspool/HJ "faithfull"

Fieldhouse. Was a superb player, with a great eye for an opening, so he could put a player through gaps. Suffered years of abuse, then left, as part of the Andy Greg exchange, and immediately got GB honours, and was a GB regular for a few years.

Wainwright. The HJ's favourite scapegoat (with Clarke running him a close second). Another player who I liked.

I'm surprised some numpties haven't mentioned Mark Thomas. Single handedly got us to Wembley in 90, by putting out 2 FANTASTIC passes, when the rest of the side where strolling round with their thumbs up their 'arrisses, wondering how we were going to win. Also won us the Regal, 8 months later. Now he DID take some grief of the "faithfull"

It's just TOO easy to name anyone from THAT 2002 squad, so I'll leave well alone

The Jackson brothers

The Peters brothers. Last seen by me, outside the Greyhound (Wembley) before the World Cup Final 92, singing "Oh W@nky W@nky" you know the rest. Thanks for your "efforts", lads.

Ronnie "Cuttlefish" Kettlewell. No more a RL player than Ed The Duck

Roach was a class act, just rarely in Wire Shirt

Tietzel. Thank God Boydy never became a full coach. He certainly never made it as a talent scout.

Mal Yates

Chris Morley. Gash.

I know he wasn't bad, BUT, the idea of having a Hulme play for us, just wants me to have a Dettol bath. EEEEEUUUUUURRRRRGGGGHHHH

Dead dog Duffy

That chancer we got from Hull, Terry Day. He STOLE money from us. What a waste of space.

The 3 amigos from Fulham, with their dross coach.

There'll be more

thumbs up!

You're both absolutely right. Prior to Fieldhouse in the late 60's there was Kenny Parr, who was a superb ball playing second row who made Barrry Briggs and Ray Clark look world beaters with his superb passes. He was years ahead of his time, but some absolutely hated him as a player.
Wedge was a fine player and would have really shone in a good side. I'd completely forgotten about Mark Thomas.

The problem with Mark Thomas was that we picked him up from Leigh, when he couldn't even get a regular game there - He was very much a panic buy (I'm sure we signed him to play in the Maine Road semi with Wigan?) and for most of his Wire career he seemed to flit in and out of the side, never really setting the world alight, except for the two big games he played in (the Central Park semi and the Regal final).

He certainly wasn't a bad player, but neither was he the ball playing genius that some might like to remember, through rose-tinted memories of the past.

Oh my word, Steve and Barry Peters. They didn't even look like rugby players. Probably because they evidently weren't.

Mike Wainwright would look great in the current Warrington side with his passing and offloading game. People forget he was a strong defender as well.

A frustrating one more recently was Jon Wilshire. He could play, had a decent bit of gas and was good in the air. But just didn't perform. Apparently he was carrying knocks, but his whole attitude looked off. The way he carried the ball back, he made Dean Gaskell look like Dean Bell!

As someone has mentioned, still can't believe we signed Paul Hulme. And paid him wages.

i know the stigma attached for the hulme bros (david was an utter scumbag playing for salford) Paul was pretty good for us in SL1, him and Cull as a back row pairing went pretty well.

I always thought Wedge's problem was that when he got over that foot injury, the team was going through major problems, and one of those that affected him more than anything was that he WASN'T Paul Sculthorpe, who had since departed.

+1

C Steve Anderson
1 David 'Doc' Murray
2 Kevin Crouthers
3 Dale Cardoza
4 Anthony Swann
5 Manoa Thompson
6 Steve Blakeley
7 Steve Peters
8 Adam Fogerty
9 Michael Sullivan
10 Craig Tietzel
11 Paul Marquet
12 Matt Sturm
13 Chris Morley
sub Martin Masella
sub John Hill
sub Dave Whittle
sub David King

Its looking like this after a bit of a quick sort.

If you can make this squad any worse, feel free.

Sorry to disappoint if your entry was too good! Is the bad ones were after.

Still, you've all done well...its a pretty s£!ty team!

lol.....i just thought, who would be the 1st try scorer?

Wolfie probably..at half time.

Warrington' team in the opening super league game in 2002 against halifax!

lee Briers
Rob Smyth
David Kidwell
Steve Maden
Dale Cardoza
Sid Domic
Matthew Rodwell
Dale Laughton
Jon Clarke
Mark Hilton
Paul Marquet
Dean Busby
Darren Burns

That's horrendous, compare it against the St. Helens and Bradford teams that competed in that years grand final and it's frightening!

......and its not even Halloween yet!!

Strange, but if you look at the team which lost 0-80 at St Helens in 1996 there are some decent players in the line up:

Warrington: Penny; Forster, Rudd (Finau, 9), Currier, Thompson; Harris, Ford; Jones (Chambers, 27), Hough, Hilton (Jones, 67), Cullen, Bennett, Knott.

Can't believe how terrible he was for us, became such a great player at Melbourne later on.