Just seen the interview with Dwyer on the club site and it got me thinking....is he the first Wigan lad to play for Leeds for a while? Struggling to come up with any others

Ps I know we signed him from Warrington, but hearing him speak he's about as Wigan as they come.

Well his Twitter account does say ‘Wigan lad play for Leeds Rhinos’ So I’d think he is.

Played for Ince Rose Bridge when younger so definitely that neck of the woods

Terry Newton is the last one I can remember. Must have been more since then?

Might be totally wrong here but wasn't the legend that was Phil Hassan a wiganer!

Where was Shaun Wane born?

In a Zoo!

Nah mate he's free range, born in a misty part of Rwanda with a decent view of Sigourney Weaver

Andy Gregory

Wigan always seem to nick more players from Leeds than the other way round, Hanley, Robinson, McLorum...

Having said that, we have not done too bad in getting players from Greater Manchester (if not specifically Wigan), Kev, Morely, Barrie Mac, Watkins...

just heard Dwyer and he has a Wigan accent or thereabouts

He is a Wiganner.

Everyone has faults don't they

ooh !good job we still have Roguesy he's seen a few off

We won't hold that against him


I'm just hoping that Dwyer comes with a much better attitude and willingness to perform and succeed than that total waste of space from Wigan that we signed many moons ago and who now preaches about players giving their all and buying into the club ethos now that he is the coach of Wigan,whilst displaying none of these traits whilst at Leeds,although he did display a lovely flashed hairstyle and he also had a wry smile as he picked his wages up each week.Hypocrisy of the highest order from the Alpha male

I think that Dwyer will fully compliment our side and that he will be a very good addition to our squad,shame though that he hasn't got the best of Wane's traits whilst he was here at the club with his flashed hairstyle

Isn't Dwyer from Newton le Willows, technically St Helens?

read an interview with Wane a couple of years ago, and he talked about his time at Leeds, he talked about Leeds lack of professionalism and lack of desire to win. which like you said he never displayed at all when he played for us, the professionalism and desire to win where probably two of the if not the main things we thought he would bring to and rub off on the rest of the squad.
Stole a wage a Leeds. we singed Molloy at the same time, who despite not being a works beater went pretty well and gave good value.

No. He's a Wiganner, from the Ince area.

I also remember Wane getting the nickname of Tampax during his time at Leeds.

You took a few from the Wigan club that didn't really settle, Wane, Gregory, Goodway, Goulding.

The first three were done when we got them, that was another great thing about Wigan of those times, they knew when the time was right to move on players even if they were club legends, and always seemed to have a ready made replacement.

Goulding was a different story. His best years were ahead of him but he was never going to hit his potential in that leeds culture of the time so its hard to look back at him going with too much regret.

I regret letting Goulding go, we all no why (rumors) he really haunted us for a few years and was instrumental in getting Saints the first super league title and wane them a couple of challenge cups. the other three, Goodway was finished, wane just took the money and ran(very plodded) Gregory wasn't bad, past his best yes, but was still the incumbent GB 7 when we signed him. he still got a few good years in at Salford after he left us, apparently did not like the traveling to Leeds every day for training. and didn't like training full stop.

I have heard the rumours about Goulding RT but my point is i don't think he would have kicked on with us had he stayed. We had Hanley and Schofield already in place 2 big personalities, when he went to widnes they had lost all their big names just about and he was the main man, what he needed at the time and by the time he got to saints they were the top dogs and he was the main man for them at the right time whist we were entering a period of turmoil. I don't really think there was ever any chance of him working out for us at that time, if it had been late 90's onwards however...

David Stephenson was a cracker. One of the best centres ever to pull on a Leeds jersey in his all too short spell with us.

Other than Ellery (about 10 years too late), David Furner was our best pickup from the Wigan club.