Good signing for you guys, still alot better fulback then he is a 6 though and thats where Id be playing him
Peter Doust. A very clever return serve. "I'll swap my Jamie Soward card for your Gareth Widdop"
Where have the Sheens to the Dragons reports surfaced from??? Haven't read it anywhere, someone with some inside scoop??
I think with the personnel we have recruited and still chasing, it would suit Sheens' coaching style. Chase, Widdop, Thompson, Dugan, all attacking weapons.
So where are all the Greenberg loving Doust/Price hating naysayers?
There's room for everyone in this thread, it's a free love free for all love in.
Widdop,Thompson and possibly the signing of Chase and Dugan brings a lot of speed to the team, something we severely lack at the moment.
The flops you talk of are forwards who were made to look good by the likes of Smith ,Cronk and Widdop.Plays a simple game and smart,what Soward does after this year is no concern,just ecstatic we have a competent player coming to us rather than a flashy Carney.i think soward will be more valuable to penrith than widdop to dargons next year. i love widdop but % of stormers who leave melbourne and maintain their form is like 1 out of 10? (inglis, j smith and folau the only ones off the top of my head - but i could name quite a few that become total flops)
During Origin Widdop runs the team and is the leader with Hinchcliffe,certainly can play without the big 3.We have to remember the players Widdop currently has around him. He has the worlds best players playing alongside him at Melbourne - the best spine in the game. Haven't really seen much of him without that structure.
I think the signing is a great move, however I am not expecting the whole thing to click into place come the first game of 2014.
If we are trying to get Rangi and Josh Dugan into the team and planning on starting them in the next few weeks, then that will go a long way to setting up a good structure for Gareth to step into come the off season.
Hopefully he will bring some of that melbourne knowledge with him...