After watching the unseen 1990 footage it lead me to ask the question..
What has been Warrington's biggest ever gaff?

My candidate for one of the club's biggest mistake was in 1990.
Greg Mackey I think came over paying his own was way and asked Wire for a trial. We was awesome for that first couple of months, winning the Lancashire Cup and top of the league.
I don't know what got into Peter Higham and the rest of the boards heads, but we never tied Greg down to a contract.!?

Eventually Greg was offered a contract, by Hull and he was gone...and so was the wins...what followed was loss after loss.
We eventually got some cup form together and the odd league win. It was never quite the same though.

We've dropped some clangers over the years, what would be your candidate for Warrington's all time biggest blunder?

Appointing Steve Anderson as coach.

I'm still waiting for Chris Leikvoll's profile.

That was my immediate reaction! And yet according to our old friend google he has gone onto gain handsome employment in both codes. He either has an agent who could make the United Nations persuasive skills redundant or one hell of an interview

However, I'm going for whoever sanctioned the manufacture of those dreadful USA baseball jackets in the early days of our transition to wolfy-ness. They were a crime against fashion in the same vein as courdroy trousers, turtle neck jumpers and those jeans that hang round your knees and show the world you need to change your underwear more frequently.

Appaling. And yes, I did own one.

Hey, i've got some cords & one day they will be back in fashion ,along with my flairs !

letting phil blake and les davidson go to that lot up the m6 after entertaining us wire fans..if only they played in the semi at maine road

Crompton to wigan

selling any player to Wigan, buying any player from Wigan. Selling P Sculthorpe.

Losing Roger Draper and replacing him with someone of limited experience!

Letting Kidwell go, just a couple of years before he became awesome

and nigel vagana

Not holding on to John Woods for another season.

cromption always stood out to me he had a very good season with us and wigan took him and I don't think he got a good run of games was almost as if they bought him so we couldn't play him lol

ing thousands and thousands of pounds up the wall scouting amateur players in the early to mid nineties to get them to sign for us, which eventually(and partially) contributed to us not having a pot to in after the onset of Superleague and causing 5/6 years of financial crisis as we struggled on the pitch and off it.


Oh, and getting rid of Pizza Pods.

Releasing Allan Bateman and getting Andy Currier.

This for me ^^^
we went into that cup final with Paul Bishop and Martin Crompton...... against Gregory and Edwards...... it was a total non starter.
(which is why I find the post about Crompton to Wigan as a blunder hugely mistyfying)

Woods was the best halfback on the field in the semi final 12 months earlier. we needed someone to control the game and we didn't have it, that's why Mercer did his hopeless chip over the to for Preston to Score.

and I'd have given Les Boyd one more year out of pure sentimentality... he deserved to play at wembley....

Yes, all valid reasons, and certainly John Woods would have lit up Wembley.

I think Vagana had outgrown us, and Blake and Davo went for the prestige, glory and.money and I don't blame them for that.

On balance, I'm sticking with those baseball jackets. If Geoge Clooney had walked into a town centre pub wearing one of those he'd have failed to pull. Not only were they dreadful looking, they seemed to be made of the kind of material favoured by artic explorers, thus making the wearer unpleasantly sweaty as well as hideously attired.

By 'limiting' you mean none?

Not retaining Sparkomatic on a longer contract...

wore mine twice at the most.
one of those things you look at in the pictures and think "i'm having that"..In reality it was hideous...!!

I came close to topping that with a green and White Skoal Bandit jacket (skoal bandit was chewing Tobbacco)
I wore it for riding my Motorbike...again great on Barry sheen and the like in a modelling catalogue...but bozzing down Wilderspool Causeway.... not so great...

I was trying to be kind

I've still got mine gathering dust.Alright for a fancy dressicon_smile.gif

Can think of a few I would've rated as bigger blunders than Martin Crompton, without getting near Harris or Sculthorpe. How about Ian Potter, or pineapple ring man or Brian Case...

....yes then Pie Murphy decimated our pack.
I think....Potter Case Courtney and little Fairhurst.

The jackets were baaaaaaad, but what about that custard splodge shirt on 95?...I've got one and it's truly hideous