obviously inspired by the bailey signing, we're in an age where smith has always said the right player for us also had to be the right sort of person, or quality to add to our squad. Which is a modern day manner of speaking.

That said, who do we think were weird signings, that were doomed from the off and would never ever work.

for me, MArtin Dermott when we signed him from wigan in 97, it just didn't feel right, and besides he'd been missing from the wigan first team for two years, i thought he'd retired. He didn't last long.

Brendan Tuuta, was another, i feckin hated that fella with a passion, it felt we were really scraping the bottom of the barrell when DV2 signed him.

I wouldn't say 'doomed from the off' but I never felt comfortable with the Martin Gleeson signing.

I was never keen on Alan Hunte but I never felt like I do with Bailey now.

Andy Currier, Richie Eyres and Paul Hulme.

Signing players that won tiles in their pomp at other clubs didn't work back in the day.(Jiffy being an exception) It certainly didn't feel right cheering any of them on, and they never got close to replicating their Widnes form. ( not even within a million miles of it infact. They were garbage - but Currier especially, was just so bad it was sickening).

Bailey doesn't have any good form to try and replicate in the first place. So this makes it even worse. ..

These threads are just making me more angry by the day...!!!

Currier is a great example, Mark Jones came in at the same time and my old man and older brother were livid that we were signing a house like him.

we got a bit of decent form out of paul hulme in SL1, but again, i remember a lot of people being irate at the time.

much like myself and




I hated alan hunte, we'd signed other people from saints, i'd never really had a problem with anyone else at that point, Hunte, couldn't stand. Presumably that we were paying him a packet at the time we were struggling for cash.

Andy Currier was more an after the event dislike for me. (Obviously "dislike" doesn't do justice to my feelings).

Adrian Morleys brother ... Chris

Dale Laughton.

Reg Bowden and Andy Currier -possibly the worst signings ever

Steve Blakeley
Kevin Walters
Dale Laughton
Adam Fogerty

Kevin Campion.. He didn't even turn up.

David Kidwell.. Said he couldn't play in the mud.

Andy Gregory - never wanted to be here and used us simply as a staging post.

Andy Gregory was better for you than leeds. Was he in halves with Paul bishop when you won premiership?

looking at thread you have had plenty though!

Leeds paid you £30k for Alan rathbone once upon a time. He got his jaw broken in first match and never played again.

to be fair, when we heard the truth about that, i can't blame him.

Michael Sullivan

Still not sure why we signed him, or what position he was suppose to be playing in - seemed we'd made the same "mistake" with Michael Monaghan, but thankfully that worked out well once he'd switched to hooker.

Steve Georgalis, Michael Eagar and Tony Tatupu. Although some would say the settled in too well into the scene at the time.

Probably only me with this one, but never could take to Mike Forshaw. His signing didn't sit right with me

Both were moved from 7 to 9 in the NRL then back to 7 for us, although Sullivan was very quick and more suited to 9 I don't think his face fitted he only had to sneeze and he would be hauled off we possibly played him wrong, as you say just not right.

Not sure we put our brains in gear when signing Sullivan. With his well documented gambling problems we housed him right inbetween two bookies...classic wire.

Andrew Johns

Hussain M'Barki

Have we all forgotten Big Roy already and his role model Big Paul? tbh though Currier was an absolute stinker!

Dave Myers from Widnes - was meant to be a wunderkind but turned about to be a lazy waster.

Andy Currier - still makes me shudder to remeber him even now!

Currier was good for Widnes but cr@p for us - especially as he was signed after the boards botched negotiations with Allan Bateman.

Many of these were bad signings but how many had this effect BEFORE they had pulled on the shirt?

Chris O'Sullivan - bone idle on a big wage
Terry Day - bucket full of tries for Hull. Did he score for us
Paul Younane - Our first signing after the Aussie embargo was lifted - useless
Craig Tietzel - Proof that Sir Les was never a talent scout
Currier - Words fail me
Bruce McGuire - Not bad, just never hit the heights he did at Sheffield
Fat Francis Maloney - waste of a talent
The Jackson Bros - One of them got a GF winning try. Struggled in our A-Team

There's a long list