Quote ="Baron Greenback"Warrington are not a 'more established' club though. You have delusions of grandeur. Tony Smith was the catalyst for the recent success, and you need 2 or 3 more seasons of the current performance levels to consider yourselves in the same prestige as Leeds, Saints and Wigan. Warrington are a fine side, but if you're trying to convince me Joel Monaghan signed a long term deal to play for you over over half the clubs in the NRL because of Warrington's 'rugby league prestige', then you're p*ssing in the wind. He's in it for the money.'"
Whatever the argument over what constitutes 'established', I'd say quite confidently that Wire can offer more chance of success to a player than yourselves, Widnes, Hull KR, etc, can - This is neatly proven by the fact that in just under two seasons, Joel Monaghan already has a top of the table finish and now a Challenge Cup winners medal.
As Sinfield said, a player will sacrifice a few quid if it means he can be part of a successful team, whereas the only temptation that an ambitious club like Widnes can offer at the moment is big money - What they have to hope for is what happened at Wire, where after going gradually through years of paying big money to average players (Reardon, Rauhihi, Fafilli, etc), you eventually reach a point where you have a half decent squad, coupled with a good coach, who will then get you challenging for honours - At that point, attracting the so-called big names becomes a bit easier than it was in the previous years.
The true deluded are those who think you can simply walk in with a wallet load of cash and buy yourself a team and instant success - People accusing Wire of salary indiscretion seem to forget that we have been building this present side since 2003 (our first year in the play-offs and last year at Wilderspool) - With our ground move and astute use of Simon Moran's cash in the transfer market, we have reached the present point where we are a serious trophy contending side, but it has taken almost 10 years.
