First choice 6

He can play all the pivots
1 6 7 9

He's only a utility at SOO level because he is the only player in the game who can play 1, 6, 7, and 9 at an NRL firstgrade level, so the coach has cover for all his key players if he has Kurt on the bench.
But at club level, his best asset is the amount of work he can do in 80 minutes, so he has to start and be involved all game.

For the last five years or so his best position has been fullback, with him spending time at dummy half to make it possible for you to have four forwards on the bench.

He actually got a rare 10 out of 10 rating for one game from RLW when he played what Brian Smith called "rover". In that game he played fullback in defence and saved several tries with his quality cover defence, and for the entire game he went to dummy half in attack and the side didn't name a hooker. At his peak, he was the only guy fit enough to do that.

So - best position fullback - decent centre - decent 5/8 - a bit dodgy at halfback - decent hooker - pretty dodgy at lock.

Can you adopt Wire as your favourite SL team roopy, and frequent our boards more often. I would love to read your positive outlook more often.

Well. You've not had much to laugh about, in the last 8 days, eh sunshine? A stuffing, then blowing something like a 14 point lead (iirc) against a bang average side

Bless.

He's basically the player Gary Wheeler wishes he was.

I think he will go straight in at 6 with Ratchford playing at 1.

I think Myler and Patton potentially looks to be a very good HB pairing, I think you'd have been better off signing a centre than an average half.

Please, nobody bite

Jesus wept. I wasn't trolling, I like Gidley, I think he's one of the most underrated players of his generation. But he's not a great half these days, for the reasons mentioned by the guy who has watched his entire career above.

I think Kurt will struggle as SL is such a strong competition compared to the NRL. And to make matters worse, everyone will compare him with big Roy, our other Aussie signing. He not only settled in very quickly, but has been the stand out pack man and a firm favourite with the South Stand since day 1. It's going to be a long old year for him.

It's a bit poor this............ this time next year he'll be getting ready for his 34th Birthday.

No matter How good a player he was and as impressive as his representative honours list is, this is a really ordinary signing ......I'm a bit stunned by it to be honest, and am hoping its not true.

Christ there was a Paul Gallen thread a while back and everyone to a man said no thanks not at that age.....that age was 35

I'm hoping he could turn out like Brett Hodgson.......but I think I'm grasping at straws...

I suspect Simon Moran has a good relationship with Newcastle Knights. Things do add up though.
I couldn't make a connection last month when it came out Gidley was coming over here and we was out of the running for Tomkins, but it was there.

Perhaps he is to be our 1 with Ratchford at 6. It's good to have so many options.

This is a suprise no doubt, however he has experience he has had some great moments, with him slotting into a young HB combo will boost us. We need someome who has been therebought the tshirt. he has it all and for me we can build on this, yes thr fans who want Cooper cronk will be miffed, but for me he has the expetience and gile to deliver when needed and with Patton upcoming and the likes of Currie etc, i shall be keeping my faith in trophies.

Do not write this guy off as a over the hill fast pay cheque.

By the way my grammar was way off, i have very large Thumbs! Apologies...

Is not his preferred position Full Back? www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pre ... 7153384407

Is not his preferred position Full Back? www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pre ... 7153384407

I see Leeds are going for Widdop.
Would he be a better signing for us?

He will have to be on around £3.4k a week to match his current knights contract!

I don't get people knocking him before we have even seen him in a shirt for us, give the guy a chance.

Agreed IW.
I'll go with roopy's view.

If Myler is off then fair enough but would prefer us to persevere with what we have especially if we aren't bringing in someone at the top of their game or before their peak. 33 is a bit old, all it does is paper over a crack for a bit. I wonder what this means for GoB now.

Our spending balance mustn't be very much either.

To be honest I've not seen him play for many years, but have seen Widdop play.
Given their respective ages I'd have thought Widdop would be a great signing with a long career left. Gidley will hopefully be up there but has less years left.
I see Ratch as fb and so that would supposedly mean Gidley in the halves.
To play at the level he has - he's unlikely to loose quality (maybe a bit of speed), so hopefully whoever partners him can learn.

What on earth will happen to Chris Bridge then?

I want the best player available for the best position. It's feck to do with Chris Bridge, it's about Ratchford and Bridge who are or were imo the best hb partnership available in this current squad.

It may of passed your mind were talking about 2016?

Backtracking at its finest.

Totally consistent...

Best hb paring we have currently had in this squad post Briers. Unbeaten as 6 & 7.

That however doesn't mean I'm not open to other combos so long as they are as effective. The problem is they hadn't been.
I'm hoping that Patton and Myler are and more so.