Has now moved to Sale FC union club (Not Sale Sharks) www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... -to-union/ This lad clearly couldn't cut the mustard in the modern game. Let's hope he continues to enjoy his rugby for what it is.

Has now moved to Sale FC union club (Not Sale Sharks) www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... -to-union/ This lad clearly couldn't cut the mustard in the modern game. Let's hope he continues to enjoy his rugby for what it is.

it's the same league that Warrington RUFC are in. Strange moved as there's not much of the season left.

The RFL has got to do something about this.

I agree Sal, stealing all our talent, why Swinton and the RFL couldn't organise some sort of central contract to keep him i'll never know. Sad loss to the game, Ashton will be worried now he has some proper competition.

He's had more clubs than Tiger Wood that fella.

What happened at Swinton? Thought he'd just joined them?

I still struggle to believe that he's not good enough for a lower SL or a Championship team.

Your not on your own!!Imagine how he feels every time he sees Andy Bracheck or Steve Pickersgill!

Strange one this, he played for Swinton yesterday. I think his best bet at this stage is to play RU Sevens. If Nicky Royle can do it, Kev Penny certainly can.

Further to my last, apparently KP trained with Swinton tonight. I suspect that he's signed to play RU from October when his Swinton commitments are finished.

Nothing wrong with that, he's a part-timer, makes sense if he's bringing in 2 wages (are this union team a semi pro team?)

Yes they are. I believe they pay something like £150 per match (that's what one of my team mates at Lymm last season was being paid, although this might have changed).

They also act as a feeder club for Sale Sharks, so maybe he's eyeing a place there, or just giving up on rugby league and going to find another job instead...

Very strange this considering he was better than Martin Offiah at one point

If they get promoted they'll still be 1 league below Lymm. What tends to happen is that with each promotion these clubs have to pay more and more out to maintain their standards. Eventually they run out of money and have a spectacular fall down the leagues. Penny will have to have a job outside the game with the money they'll be offering.

Can't believe it, you'd think all these clubs would have realised that Penny was just a scapegoat and that it was always his fault when the opposition breezed past him.

I've always said that given the talent the lad has for the knowledge of the game and the speed he has/had down a wing .. the best way for him to earn some money from the game is to stick a flag in his hand.

I think he's e no wonder no one wants him!

The only thing he's good at is running!

It's been a while since most of us have seen him but I remember when he was at Wakey viewing some of the threads on their forum about him and the comments there were suggesting that in Academy games he was being outpaced by other players, so I wonder if he has had injuries and the edge has come off his pace.

The problem for a player like Penny who provides pace at the cost of other weaknesses is that when his pace goes he's in trouble. Compare this to a guy like Chris Hicks, when Hicks was at Penrith in the early 2000s he was the fastest player in the NRL, by the time he joined us the edge had come off his pace, he wasn't slow, but he wasn't in the very elite league for speed any more, but he was still a top class winger because of his other attributes. Scott Donald was similar, from his early days in the NRL when he was out and out bullet, to his latter days at Leeds when he'd lost the edge, he was still a top class winger.

Also regarding defence, people say if you are that quick it doesn't matter if you can't tackle because Offiah couldn't tackle, but there's a difference between Offiah-standard defence (not great, but able to get by) and Penny-standard defence (total liability). If Penny's defence had been as good as Offiah's then I think he would have done well in SL, not sure if he could have been as good as Offiah but he might have been like Nathan Blacklock.

So is Dwain Chambers!!!

oh come on give him some credit! He's better than Chambers who couldnt even get in the Castleford team

I think you're exaggerating a bit there.

I can't believe some of the two-facedness and backstabbing, to someone who was being touted as "the next big thing", only a handfull of years ago.

Penny gave us many fantastic memories, let's remember them, instead of ripping the p155 out of the poor lad
After Cullen and then Lowes dropped him, his confidence obviously plummeted, and by the time Smith turned up, his confidence was in tatters, and since he left us, it's obviously gone into freefall.

If only he had someone to "put an arm round him", early in his career, rather than "hanging him out to dry", he'd have been a SL regular.

Still, as long as us Warrington fans have someone to "rip the p155" out of, we're happy, eh?

Let's not forget, he was in the SL dream teamonly 4 years ago, which our own Messiah had some input into

Wondered how long it would be for someone to come on crying 'poor penny'... Shame on you lefty.

Yeah, shame on me for trying to back up a Warrington lad, for getting 10,000 fans going mental over some excellent tries.

'Ill be in my room, sorry!

Only in Warrington

Being a bit touchy there Lefty.