Looks as though they are going for size over ability with Ashworth and Greenwood, unless Watson can get the best out of them that other coaches couldn't.
I can hold Greenwood in higher regards now he’s left Wigan.
He turned out to be an awful signing for them, hopefully he can do well at Hudds and fulfill some of the potential he showed in his early years at Saints.
I don't expect Wigan minded too much about Greenwood either way - inconsistent player who only occasionally made a big impact. But why did Joe Burgess go to Salford? Surely he's a better winger than Bibby. Neither Greenwood or Burgess did much in Australia, but their careers are surely going the wrong way. Am I missing something?
Watson does have a way with players.
When he signed for Salford he would have been third choice at Wigan behind Marshall and Manfredi. His contract was running down and he will have had decent wage expectations so at the time probably the right move for him to go to Salford. Hind site given the injuries is a wonderful thing but it will have been sorted by then.
There will be one more big earner leaving Wigan in the next month or so and I’d expect a prop and maybe a cover outside back recruited.
Greenwood no loss. Way down the pecking order and a confidence player that seems to struggle with the weight of expectation placed on him.
Bags of potential and The Giants may well be a very good career move for him.
Greenwood never quite kicked on has he? I don't the guy but he always came across as a bit too cocky for my liking in interviews and he acted like a prize berk when he was giving it large when wigan beat us earlier in the season.
He is at the cross roads of his career now, he needs to talk a bit less and play a lot more
Greenwood never struck me as a wi*an type player. When he was at Saints he was a bit on the timid side. It seems that yard-dog shithousery is instilled in players at the piescum, and he probably struggled to bring that into his game - the 'giving it big bollocks' and the odd high tackle were perhaps his way of trying to just fit in.
I firmly believe that it's to do with the salary cap. They've may have planned on Hastings doing a runner and so have signed Field, with French staying and Bateman coming in, only 2 of those four can be classed as Marquee players and I'm sure that players like Farrell, George Burgess, Hardaker and Gildart aren't on peanuts so they may be struggling to stay under the cap without shedding some (dead) wood - Joe Burgess, Greenwood, Flower, etc
Greenwood must have been doing okay to pick up an NRL contract. I always liked him at back row, but I always found the 'left second row argument' a poor one, if his game was so one dimensional that he couldn't adapt, then he's probably not we good as we thought.. look at Welsby, working his way into the team wherever he can, or Simm predominantly a right centre, but taking his chances at left centre..
Another player that left saints and didnt really do much. We got a great deal with Zeb. Josh Jones is decent but we've got better IMO. There's alot of Wigan fans getting giddy about George Bugess leaving and Luke Thompson coming in. With our pack I cant see us squeezing him in so if he does come back in the next few years, it won't be to us. Warrington on the verge of Mulhern too.
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so warrington have signed Mulhern and Butler as props they look good additions in fairness
RFL Championship / Super League (17) - 193132, 195253, 195859, 196566, 196970, 197071, 197475, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Challenge Cup (13) - 195556, 196061, 196566, 197172, 197576, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2021
World Club Challenge (3) - 2001, 2007, 2023
League Leader's Shield (9) - 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2022
He has a squad number
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