Donna Douglas packing down in a tight-fitting Wires top? Cor blimey as Sidney James might say.

Imagine being an accademy player for Warrington.

Mitch Brown, Ben Pemeroy, Bodene Thompson.

or like Wigan we could displace one of our AMAZING academy players by splashing the cash on a Swinton centre.

remember the late 80s - early 90s?

He looks half decent to be fair to him. And he's a goalkicker.

I think you are doing Thompson a disservice, he's a solid NRL-level backrower. He'll do just fine in Super League.

Probably wouldn’t have been signed if not injuries to Forsyth, Higginson, Gildart and Worthington.

All players given chances at first team

Well they would get first team chances because you've not got much money and there's also a salary cap. Wonder if they'd have got the chance 20/30 years ago? Platt, Offiah, Connolly, McGinty, Hanley, Gregory, Potter, Preston etc etc etc and that's before the foreign contingent - suggests not.

bloody hell, wigan fans coming back on here having a pop at us for lack of academy players, they've been missing for the past 5 year.

8 month into price trying to sort out tony smith's mess and they're back at us.

Yeah I feel really sorry for: Patton, Currie, Livett, Smith, Johnson, T. King, G. King, Cooper & Philbin... They've never been given a chance have they?

Same goes for Penny, Dwyer, Riley, G. Riley,Wilde, Mitchell, R. Evans, B. Evans, Blythe, Laithwaite, Harrison, Ormsby, O'Brien, McCarthy,Williams & Wood.

Shame on Warrington... Only 25 academy players have featured in the 1st team in the last 8 years.

Didn't they bring through Radlinski, Clarke, Farrell, Cassidy, Robinson and Haughton around that time?

Fair enough that 6 should offset the 100+ antipodeans and players poached from other clubs in that period.

Why are people saying this? I genuinely have nothing to do with 'duck'.

Whether that be a good thing or not

.....and why not?
You could have been associated with far worse on here....you let them think your me if you know what's good for you.

Were we any different...poaching John Woods and Des Drummond from Leigh; Andy Gregory from Widnes; Boyd, Tamati, Blake, Johnson from down under etc....

Unaware of you're on one of your wind ups, but we didn't poach any of those
Woods was bought from BRADFORD, and in the last throes of his top level career
Drummond was in dispute with Leigh
Likewise Gregory at Widnes
Boyd finished his second huge ban. Did he have a club?
Tamati, see Woods but from Widnes
Blake was an off season short termer, who went straight back, when the Winfield Cup restarted
Johnson (iirc) was coming to the end of his contact at St George, and was about 4th in line for the Aussie No 1 jersey, so he came here

I'm fairly certain John Woods came from Bradford N.

Not sure about the signing but if he offers mote than
Crosby it may well be the right move only time will tell
over to you Mr price.

He's a tackling machine, and runs good lines given the right delivery- have to say Jordan Thompson is the better of the 2nd rowers in my opinion and everyone is up for grabs, quite a scramble for them to - how we finished out of the top 4 with a plethora of SL standard players is beyond me

Mr Cunningham maybe ????? But what has gone on to many
Big time Charlie's ?

Yep Woods came to us from Bratfut, as did Ken Kelly.

bye bye Bodene, you won't be missed...but Harrison Hansen (Widnes) will definitely be.

Yes I though straight away we'd have been slightly better with Jordan over Bodene....but perhaps he fits our short term future outlook better...Jordan may be after a long homeland deal.

Totally agree Terry,Bodene looked overweight and not fit when he came, not much different now, never breaks a tackle, doesn't possess an offload, nothing like Chris Hill,and couldn't compete with Harrison Hansen, or Jordan Thompson, won't be missed by me.

I saw him yesterday morning...I thought he was unfit too but not seen enough of him on tele to have passed judgement....in McDonald's of all places.

Well price must see something from the opposed training sessions Wire quite often have with Leigh

Sounds like he ticks all the boxes for a Warrington overseas signing