We are favourites for him according to the Rugby League Express, a replacement for Sheriffe? or Reardon?...

Reardon I would have thought.

He is a decent player and he got a lot of tries for us last season, His defence is quite weak though which is why he was dropped last year. I reckon he will do a good job at Bradford and I wish him all the best if he does sign for you.

If we could sort his defence out, he'd be a good signing. One thing though, if true, it will be nice to see a winger who actually goes down the line and for the corner, rather than taking the ball with open space, dithering about until the defenders get over, then running across the field.

He can certainly score tries which is something we need. Hopefully his defence will come on with time. Has anyone seen that video on a well know video sharing website of him playing for England academy versus Australia a few years back? It's worth watching to see what he can do in attack.

I think he has the potential to add more to the squad than Reardon does/has, and I thought Reardon was a decent gamble at the time.....

Finigan and Ainscough in the same team would certainly add speed to the backs! I would be quite pleased with this signing if true.

If we are after this guy then he needs a serious amount of work spent on his defence. Opposition will be targeting his wing all season long, and probably getting quite a bit of success from doing so I would imagine.

Thing is if they do target him and he doesn't mess up he'll be a big threat with the ball in hand. I think he just needs to settle at a club that's going to put time in with him, he also needs to knuckle down and take the opportunity too. He's got plenty of potential but he needs to recognise he's not the finished article yet.

yes you have signed him.

I suspect this may be the first of the new signing announcements that are due to start this week.

So its Ainscough, Elima and maybe Chev Walker so far...I also heard a rumour that Thomas Bosc is being courted, not sure if its true.

Both Pryce's and now feilden is alleged to have turned down a one yr offer, with us and hull in the frame

Leon will be a Bull by 2012 if not next year.

A good signing IMO.

I think it's a very good signing, young, fast and scores tries for fun. Ok he needs to work on his defence, but which young players don't. Iam sure Mick Potter will get the best out of him.

He is already an improvement on Reardon then as this year he was neither young (in the rugby league sense) nor fast and he certainly didn't score tries for fun. He surely can't do much worse then Reardon did in defence either and at least has time in his side to be able to improve.

An improvement to the overall make up of the squad in my opinion.

However this is all assuming Reardon is off which seems to have been mentioned a few times on some of the other threads!

A winger who cant defend, whats new?

A winger with pace, a proven try scorer, thats new!!

Not fully convinced by this apparent signing is he any better than what we have debatable IMO.

based on relatively limited amount I've seen ainscough, I'd say better than reardon (or at least reardon we've seen this year), better than halley as has similar pace but has a bigger physical build so harder to stop which has always been main critiscm of halley. probably on a par with sheriffe defensively, although a slightly better finisher. havent seen enough of finnigan to compare.

couple of wigan fans I spoke to over weekend were pretty gutted to be losing him if thats anything to go by.

Isnt he classed as a flyer?

If so, he is one up on most of our wingers in the SL era for a start. We havent had many players who could go the length of the field like Broughton did from Salford the other week from a broken field situation

Okay signing but i'd still rather use Finigan.

who's to say we wont use finigan on other wing? not definite that we're retaining sheriffe or that halley will get a 1st team spot. I'd be pretty happy with finnigan,halley,meli and ainscough competing for the 2 wing spots. certainly a healthier position than we're in now.

If we sign Meli he'll take up one wing spot.

Thwe others will be competing for the opposite one and imo (atm anyway) Finigan would be at the bottom of that list (even though I tihnk he could kick on and become a better winger than either of Ainscough or Halley.

thats assuming ally 4 are fit. also I wouldnt necessarily think finnigan would automatically be bottom of list either. all 3 have something to prove and a clean sheet with potter. And there would be opportunities for halley and finnigan at FB as kearney misses a few through injury.

I'd rather have one decent winger and 3 decent young prospects competing than have no squad depth through worrying about blocking progress of our youth products. If they are good enough then they will force their way into team anyway, or at least thats impression I've got of potters coaching methods.

Young player with a bit of a point to prove and some obvious strengths and some weaknesses to work on. If he is arriving with the right attitude then I see no reason why he won't improve under Mick Potter.

As I said on another thread he will be relatively low cost and I reckon he can only get better. If he doesn't make the grade then we won't have lost much, if he does we might have a bargain. I see this as a positive piece of business.