WIGAN Warriors winger Mark Calderwood has emerged as a Hull FC target for next season.
The Mail understands the 26-year-old former Leeds Rhinos star has instructed his representatives to find him another club for 2009.
He is out of contract with the Warriors at the end of the year, and is keen on returning to Yorkshire after a three-year spell at the JJB Stadium.
Sources have told the Mail that Hull FC are interested in his services, and that he himself has singled out the black and whites as his preferred club for next season.
Calderwood, an England international who won a Grand Final during his time at the Rhinos, is a proven try-scorer at Super League level.
He would be an ideal replacement for Aussie winger Matt Sing, who will retire at the end of the campaign.
Calderwood's agent David Howes today confirmed to the Mail that his player was seeking another club.
Not very happy about this because if Calderwood goes to Hull he will come back and bite us in the bum big time. We need to keep him and get a good centre to feed him and Nobby to give him game time its no wonder he is losing his match fitness. Before he came to us , and its been said a million times there was no-one faster in the league and just look what this club and Nobby has done to him
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WIGAN Warriors winger Mark Calderwood has emerged as a Hull FC target for next season.
The Mail understands the 26-year-old former Leeds Rhinos star has instructed his representatives to find him another club for 2009.
He is out of contract with the Warriors at the end of the year, and is keen on returning to Yorkshire after a three-year spell at the JJB Stadium.
Sources have told the Mail that Hull FC are interested in his services, and that he himself has singled out the black and whites as his preferred club for next season.
Calderwood, an England international who won a Grand Final during his time at the Rhinos, is a proven try-scorer at Super League level.
He would be an ideal replacement for Aussie winger Matt Sing, who will retire at the end of the campaign.
Calderwood's agent David Howes today confirmed to the Mail that his player was seeking another club.
Not very happy about this because if Calderwood goes to Hull he will come back and bite us in the bum big time. We need to keep him and get a good centre to feed him and Nobby to give him game time its no wonder he is losing his match fitness. Before he came to us , and its been said a million times there was no-one faster in the league and just look what this club and Nobby has done to him
I heard this about three weeks ago.
The thing is with calderwood is since his injury he has lost the one thing that made him a good winger - his speed. I have watched him in reserve games and he is not the player he used to be. Would you risk keeping him and him never getting his full fitness back. It is sad and we all think of him fondly because of the bradford game but I think it is best for both the club and player.
If he goes there i hope he comes back to bite uss in the ass every game, Nobby is a tool, we have no strike players on the wing thanks to kack centres, stick Calders with Carmont and watch him score a shedload, when his contract is up Nobby must go, he has been found out, he was a great coach with a good team he inherited, but so far has shown me poo
if we are simply looking at performance (and not the rumoured large salary he was on) then calderwood hasn't done as well as his leeds period...although a significant part of this could be down to the centres he has inside him at wigan). however, if nobby gets rid of calders and yet keeps colborn on the wing next yr, then yes nobby is definetley a tool.
NOBLE OUT PLEASE- YOU'VE HAD TIME AND NOW MY PATIENCE HAS RUN OUT!
IT'S ONE THING TO LOSE, IT'S ANOTHER TO PLAY DIRE AND BORING RL AND THEN LOSE!
It is up to Calderwood really if he wants to stay at Wigan then he will have to accept less money, part of the reason he is leaving Wigan is because Lindsey signed him on a big contract which he isn't justifying.
Calderwood has lost a lot of pace since playing for Leeds and without pace he is nothing. He doesn't have much strength, he isn't very good collecting kicks, his defence isn't very good and he is not the fastest player in super league any more...far from it.
A great pity. Seems lots of people want extra forwards playing on the wing.
Speed? I cannot recall anybody catching him. He looked fast at the end of last season. Maybe he is working his way back from injury and thus deserves patience?
