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Fifteen pictures of overseas players who have joined Wigan Warriors from a Super League rival
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:02 am
by josie andrews
Jackson Hastings, Salford’s Australian halfback, is on his way to the Warriors.
Here are 15 overseas players who have joined Wigan from a Super League rival...
https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/fiftee ... -1-9858507
Re: Fifteen pictures of overseas players who have joined Wigan Warriors from a Super League rival
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 1:52 pm
by shaunedwardsfanclub
Some good some poor signings amongst them.
Re: Fifteen pictures of overseas players who have joined Wigan Warriors from a Super League rival
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 4:23 pm
by DaveO
Only 3, 5, 9 and 12 have cut the mustard for me.
The rest are bang average to poor and given we are supposed to have such a production line of players it makes you wonder what signing such players of such little ability was all about.
As to my top four, the fact we only seem to have been altered to the talents of players like Green and Hastings after SL's rivals like HKR and Salford found them to be available just reinforces my view is our "scouting" is nonexistent. The same applies domestically to a degree as well. I doubt we'd have seen Hardaker here unless he had screwed up so was suddenly available. I think the last truly talented overseas player we unearthed who wasn't at the end of his career when he arrived (as Bowen was for example) was Carmont.
Re: Fifteen pictures of overseas players who have joined Wigan Warriors from a Super League rival
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 5:06 pm
by bill.inger
Agreed, DaveO. We all could see that Chris Hill was outstanding at Leigh and I recall, years ago, that some Wigan scout had said that Alex Walmsley wouldn't hack it at a higher level.
Those two would have been handy acquisitions.
Re: Fifteen pictures of overseas players who have joined Wigan Warriors from a Super League rival
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 5:38 pm
by Southern Softy
With some exceptions - it's a bit of a Hall of Shame really.
Re: Fifteen pictures of overseas players who have joined Wigan Warriors from a Super League rival
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:39 pm
by Mickw
DaveO wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2019 4:23 pm
Only 3, 5, 9 and 12 have cut the mustard for me.
The rest are bang average to poor and given we are supposed to have such a production line of players it makes you wonder what signing such players of such little ability was all about.
As to my top four, the fact we only seem to have been altered to the talents of players like Green and Hastings after SL's rivals like HKR and Salford found them to be available just reinforces my view is our "scouting" is nonexistent. The same applies domestically to a degree as well. I doubt we'd have seen Hardaker here unless he had screwed up so was suddenly available. I think the last truly talented overseas player we unearthed who wasn't at the end of his career when he arrived (as Bowen was for example) was Carmont.
they stumbled upon carmont he wasn't scouted either.