Making a temporary move and not knowing what your work future is bound to affect anyone.
I think he'll be a good leader now he has nailed his red white and blue colours to the mast.

Played really well last few matches.. long may it continue. Now for some others .... please!! (yea I know I am an impatient so and so.

Pleasantly surprised with the signing of the Scruton we have seen over the last couple of games.

As others have said he has been fantastic of late. Running with intent rather than seemingly jogging up as he did under Agar.

As long as he is going to continue giving his all and it was not a temporary phase whilst his contract is sorted out you have signed a real asset.

You will never beat the "moaners r us" lot.
This is a start of stability, hopefully, especially if a large batch of the current squad are secured.
Time to lock our revolving door.

www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/news ... l/2014/07/ Quote ="Nick Scruton"I didn’t think it (the transfer) would have affected my game as much as it did but those first few weeks I was garbage and some of the fans didn’t hesitate in telling me. I’ve not had that for a long time so I’m just glad I’m starting to show people what I’m capable of and why Wakefield signed me, and I’ve been rewarded with a two-year deal. As a prop forward at my age, hopefully I’ll be playing my best rugby for Wakefield Wildcats'" He's certainly saying the right things.

www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/news ... l/2014/07/ Quote ="Nick Scruton"I didn’t think it (the transfer) would have affected my game as much as it did but those first few weeks I was garbage and some of the fans didn’t hesitate in telling me. I’ve not had that for a long time so I’m just glad I’m starting to show people what I’m capable of and why Wakefield signed me, and I’ve been rewarded with a two-year deal. As a prop forward at my age, hopefully I’ll be playing my best rugby for Wakefield Wildcats'" He's certainly saying the right things.

Must admit he has looked better recently so if he keeps up with his present improvement I'm happy with the signing.

Richard Moore next please

Good news. Hopefully we can add Moore to that aswell. And it would be great if we could persuade Ali to stay another year!

Very underwhelmed I remember his first 8 games not trying one single ounce I hate players like that with other agendas. Now Bradford cant catch us he has started to try. Tautai signed for Wigan. Giving 100% everytime on the field

I thought everybody said he was signing for Leeds for next season?? Just going through the motions this year before he got his 'dream' move to headingley?
Hopefully now his future is sorted he will get better and better

I thought all along if he thought there was an outside chance of either going back to Bradford or not staying with us it would affect him and i hope the improvemnt has come about because he now has some stability and in retrun we should see commitment from his
Good signing

Think the departure of RA, the return of T.Smith, the players as a whole playing better and getting 7 out of 8 points maybe one of the main reasons Bradford can't catch us now.
As for Scruton, he looks a different player, like Washbrook does, like Owen does.
Some people would be better off sitting in a darkened room listening to their beards grow!

Also with RA parting statement that the team would have to be rebuilt.
Was he not expecting Webster to have a different effect on the players, with him being his assistant?
Maybe stability is just around the corner for next year?

Or the fact they all need a contract? We must be soft in the head if we give Washbrook a deal 3 years of averageness does not warrant a contract for having 4 decent games. Owen (better options out there), Scrutton may have finally settled as his beloved Bradford are doomed.

Good solid tough prop and good 2 year deal.



As for Washbrook he's been ok and it depends on the size of his contract and whether he's worth it or not.

No one should be getting more than 2 year deals though.

Washbrook has been good in games before Webster took over.
He's had a pretty good season, barring a couple of games when they were all poor.
He was has been good in the recent run but he was up there as MoM against Hull and was still tackling when others were just giving up in the earlier games. He was injured early on too so would have taken some time to get back to full fitness.

We know NGB4C has a downer on him but lets not perpetuate the untruth.

Didn't the 'Machine' that was Mariano start to play well when contracts were up for negotiations?
Take your sausage fingered blinkers off!

Pleased with this, I was slightly worried we would be lacking size in the front row. Decent front rowers are hard to come by especially ones who can play plenty of minutes. I was a person who criticized Scruton on the terraces and probably on here however since Webbo has arrived he has been running on to the ball (Probably a word from Tim Smith in there) and some good hits in defence. Happy with the extention, lets hope we have some more renewals next (Walshaw, etc)
Regarding Ali, he will know when it is time to hang his giant boots. I reckon it will be a decision he makes after the season as the last third of games will give him a rough idea if he can go through another pre-season and another season and injuries such as he has overcome that could affect him later on.

Rubbish he played well all the time but our numpty coach at the time didn't want to know

Disagree Mariano was inconsistent until his contract renewal. Also ducked out and went missing when it got hard in some games. Catalans away was a prime example. Se were in control and Frankie was doing some damage but two forwards out a decent hit on him and he vanished.

I don't know when or where this myth cropped up about Mariano going missing. I used to watch him very closely and he was a lot more consistent than others players.
Agar obviously had some sort of agenda regarding him and has been a massive loss to our squad. Gutted when we didn't offer him a half decent contract.

I never saw him go missing and as far as I can recall he's the only player who's 'commitment' in training was leaked to the general public. I think Agar tried to do a job on him but ended up having to go cap in hand. I rated the guy but I am happy enough with his replacement in Ryan.

Had never heard of Matt Ryan before he came, has been famtastic for us.

We dud offer him a contract Cas offered more ghosts how if works thought he was OK but average don't think we have missed Jim tbh and I would much rather gave Ryan who gives 100% all the time