Didn't see that coming

Absolute mad house this club. Nothing changes, ever.

There's lads in Warrington playing NCL that are 10x the player Russell is. It's stuff like this which gives you a glimpse as to how this new season will go from a Wire perspective.

He must think he as won the lottery, no way does he ever get in the 17 at any time.

His comments re Olpherts in the WG article are interesting.

Do you want to bet?

sigh, its gets more and more difficult to defend this club at times.

Even if he was considering a reasonable player, the optics of how he was during his time here, he left under a cloud, and was a limited, not well liked player.

On the flipside, this is what powell did at cas, brought in players and got them playing above themselves at times. maybe thats the attempt

Tell me you have panicked and tied all your cap space up on props without telling me you have panicked and tied all your cap space up on props.

I don't think it's that much different to Wigan signing Bibby. We would have been outraged by that signing and he worked out OK. Now he's gone to the Giants.

I do think Bibby is probably a better player than Russell, but not that much.

Truly baffling signing. Cap space would be far, far better utilised on a centre.

Terrible signing.

I always had sympathy for MR following that horrible injury against Widnes (?). He obviously has limitations but probably cheap and may give opportunity for Thewlis to cover Centre.
I’m not saying Thewlis can/wants to play Centre but perhaps gets him more involved when 1 is injured. Much like the hunchback of The Entertainers.

Very poor signing.

He will just be blocking the pathway to our 1st team for our developing players.

We all know of his limitations and I would have hoped, so would Daryl Powell.

Russell was quite effective scooting from dummy half. Perhaps that's where Daryl sees him.

Well, my decision to bite the bullet & renew my season ticket could have a comedy element next season. The south stand could be a cauldron of dissent.

Indeed.

What's his strengths, I cant think of any?

Elite ball carrier, metre maker and quick play the balls.

Don’t think he is on the cap, think he here on universal credit.

The stats have always confirmed that he is difficult to tackle and that he makes hard yards.
In his best season (at full back) I think he was the best metre maker in the league. (I don't think I've made that up)
We know his strengths & we know his weaknesses.

60% of those quick play the balls end up in knock ons

this was when we were all getting ratty (mussell) because our attack consisted of, scoot from russell, scoot from ratch, scoot from clark, and repeat.

also see comments

"why dont we play him at hooker?"

We were totally "scoot mad" at the time. Mind you we could have done with one or two of those scoots last season.

Elite

Have you googled "Elite" for the definition?

He's an improvement on Josh Charnley, and now we're stuck with him.