were are the season pass application forms?, i want to fill one in now, wow what a signing i'm so f**kin excited, cant wait for next season now.

Indeed. And so are reactions to those thoughts and opinions.

Sod off!!

That's the spirit.

That's the spirit! He'll look better if nothing else!


I'm always prepared to give everyone a fair chance, he could end up doing a good job for us, you never know!

A fast british winger with a proven track record for scoring tries at the highest level. A player who has already said he has a point to prove and were bagging him before he even wears the jersey. Calderwood used to scare the bejesus out of me when he played for leeds. Could be a very good signing.

Yes, and Tommy Lee is a junior international scrum half who COULD play 7 for England against Australia one day! Could, but most probably will not!

he is a has been that no other so called top club would go within a mile of, typical of the signings we make.

He has tons of pace, is willing to back himself, and can get trys. Not the best winger in the league but one of the best English wingers, and I would have thought that would have been important to some people seeing as quite a few have moaned that we have 'wasted' a quota spot on a winger for the past 6 seasons (not me personally though).
The only problem is that apart from his 20 metre re-starts, he will be wasted at this club unless we use our right hand side properly. For example, we very rarely put bombs up, even though when we did Sing always challenged or got tries

This season apart Calderwood has been probably the second best British winger in the competition second only to Raynor.

It now looks as if we have both England wingers. Why are we moaning?

We have no urgency for the 20 metre restarts so he is wasted there too. He might be switched on to it but we wont have anyone there tapping the ball!

You mean the same as players such as Hodgson, Brown, Robinson, Tickle, Wild, Hargreaves, Orr, Godwin etc etc, who have all had bad times at Wigan, but then left and become much better players? And also gone to lower clubs with the exception of Saints, to do so?

Iirc, its generally him that takes the tap himself, but I could be wrong

Because people think he is a t**t. But I think they fail to see it won't be us he will be a t**t to next season

I personally rated all of these except Hargreaves and Tickle when they was still at Wigan. The difference is I thought Leeds got rid of Calderwood at the right time. Almost every single poster on the Wigan forums say he's never regained his pace after his ankle injury. Unfortunately he never had much else other than pace.

Really? I thought the rest were tripe tbh, and Robinson is the only one I don't rate much now. For some reason, Wigan has an effect on players. How many players in the past 5 years can you say have gone to Wigan and been a success, or have improved the performances compared to how they performed at their last club?

exactly, says it all when we just get Wigan cast offs.

No I kind of agree. Wigan's recruitment policy has been as bad as ours when it comes to signing UK players that have already peaked. They seem to have addressed this problem recently and are letting one of their mistakes come to us. Fielden as an example is a strange one because I don't think he's been awful, just not as good as he was at Bradford.

Your wingers don't have to be outstanding world class players.

He has pace which is vital in that position. As long as he can form a good understanding with whoever is playing at centre inside him he should go ok as defensively the can assist each other through the game

A good signing I think, he has pace which is what you want from your wingers. His marker defence will be useful too, hopefully it might rub off on a few people.

yeh, but has he still got it? most of the pies fans would say not.

To be honest I think their recruitment policy has been good, its just whoever has been in charge has never been able to get the best out of them at all for some reason.

At last someone speaks sense! Personally I don't think he would be a bad signing. Yes he's had a bad season, but so have we as a club, does that make us a bad team? No. A winger needs to be fast, have an eye for the tryline, and be reliable under the high ball, Calerwood has all those attributes. He's not the best defender in the world, but does a winger need to be? He's an experienced player who has a good 5-6 years ahead of him, imo a worthwhile signing.

Calderwood aside, has anyone heard any other names we may be linked with?

why would he has thacks been training to play on the wing?