Yeah, I knew we registered an interest, but I heard that Cullen turned him down, wanted to much wages & Cull thought he was past his best...........which, he never did fully cope with the speed of League again after playing Union !!!

Two players who you would have always bet your house on ending up in Super League but for some reason they never came. Ruben Wiki was always one of my favourite players, I would put him in the Morley class.

I seem to remember in 2002 one of the Squadbuilder meetings when David Plange said something about him being in talks with a high profile Aussie centre that he wanted to bring over here for 2003 and I always wondered who that was. One of the Aussie papers around that time said that Russell Richardson was looking at options in Super League and I put two and two together and thought it might be him.

Also when Francis Meli was linked with Saints, I remember reading an interview in the paper with his agent who had said that Warrington were one of the clubs who had made an approach.

Other players that I've remembered who we were linked with -
Martin Offiah (at the end of 1999)
Paul Sterling (as a loan spell when Forster broke his arm early in his last season of 2000)

Then in 2002 when we were really in a mess and looking for players there were stories linking us with Vaiga Tuigimala and Scott Gibbs. Plange said at Squadbuilder he'd checked Tuigimala out but was unsure about the state of his fitness, I think the phrase used was "Vietnamese pot bellied pig". Ironically he then signed Appo instead! Scott Gibbs I would have loved to have signed in 2002, but nothing came of that.

When we signed Grose I think the story went that originally we were looking to sign Duncan McGillivray at Souths who was Sid Domics brother in law (I think) but then became aware of Grose (who was also at Souths) being available, he was backpacking around Europe at the time so Cullen told him when he came to England to come and meet him.

Paul Rowley was one from years ago..
Martin Moana was another..

Tony Puletua