Good luck to the guy.

Feel sorry for the way it ended for him. He was full of passion and enthusiasm, but maybe fell for the trap of riding the wave of highs and lows. Much like Paul Cullen to a point.

They were a little bit close, couldn't see the bigger picture. Bouncing and beaming when it was going well, but when it didn't go so well, they were down and it's hard to find the way back. I hope now that he has learned the lesson and gets on with the job regardless of whether he has scored a wonder try, or dropped a dolly.

Welcome home. It was always going to be a one-year deal, but he has the opportunity to make it much longer.

Tony has obviously weighed this up and concluded that Kevin has matured as a player and as a person, and it's great to see a player get a second chance. Especially one with as much heart as Penny.

Are Monaghan and Riley still going to be there next season? If so, Penny is not likely to play much is he?

It's a squad game. You can pour all your resources into building the best pack in the league as Saints have, or try to build a bit more depth into the squad. We seem to have gone down the latter route.

Not sure why you have chosen to use my post as an excuse to have a dig at Saints; it was a genuine question about how you'll line-up next year as I wasn't sure if Monaghan was leaving or not.

Joel Monaghan has signed a contract extension at Wire and is still here next season. With regards to Penny I'll never forget his try v Salford at home from a briefs kick from a scrum, the try against Saints at Knowsley Road and the k kick on out of his hands on the 20m restart

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Whilst he displayed glimpses of brilliance he also had some shockers. All that said, he's worked hard and to have got the praise from Gary Chambers that has brought him back into the thoughts of Tony Smith shows how hard he's worked. Credit to Penny he could have gone onto the heap of past forgotten players thinking of "Only if"?
Will be interesting to see how we line up next season. I just hope he left the silly back slapping and jumping up and down antics at Widnes.

Strange that we don't see much of mr 'best pack in the league' round here anymore

Cheers

It is a gamble but what an opportunity for Penny. Hope he takes it tbh

If say Joel Monaghan gets rested for a game and Penny comes in and makes a few mistakes what do we do the next week? Does Smith bring Joel back and destroy Penny's confidence like Cullen and Lowes did or does he keep Joel on the sidelines to show faith in Penny?

It isn't a dig at you, or Saints, just an opportunity to mock the much-missed Northampton Saint.

Used to love watching him. Always remember Warrington - Hull, first game of the season. Warrington score, We kick off, ball goes to Penny who runs half the length before passing inside to king. I can remember thinking then that I'd never seen someone so quick on a rugby pitch. Fact is that defense is never a wingers strong point. If he's improved enough to cut out the silly errors then that is probably enough, depending on who's defending inside him. Really glad to see the kid given another chance.

Not one to spoil a memory . But that was Atkins, when he used to be quick.

No, it was Penny. He got the ball off Monas from the kick off IIRC, scorched down wing and passed it inside to King, who romped home. Very early in the game.

Come on Bobbie, I expect better of you.

Hull kick-off, Monaghan receives, he has Parker steaming up on his inside, looks at Parker, then flings the ball out to Penny who goes down the line, draws in the fullback(?), giving ot to King to score from about thirty metres.

100% it was penny

Ha ha i just had to you tube it.. Im quite clearly losing it.

Apologies .. I seem to remember a similar King /atkins one straight from a kick off against hull. But that might just be a sign of getting old !

Thats the one, great wide ball from monaghan.

You got search name for that on youtube?

matt king try v hull

Tried that and it didn't work

My memory of him was when you played us in the challenge cup game.

He scored a fantastic try and then in the same game he drops the ball in his own 20m line straight to Matt Gidley who walks over for a try.

That sums him up really well I think.

Intriguing signing for you lot.

Reading the Guardian it seems like the deal is very low risk for Warrington.

Could even be pay for play or performance related.

Love that try. Swashbuckling stuff and it is the sign of a good team that goes for the throat straight after scoring a previous try... none of this 'safe set' crap.

Has anyone got the CC try against Sintellins?