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: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:02 pm  
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Cannot believe a club of your standing is signing Coyle. If your recruitment was half as good as your gates etc, you'd walk this league. Coyle is a very average player and not worthy of pulling on the Widnes shirt. Duffy is twice as good. I cannot understand why you continue to sign such ordinary players. We all know about the supposed box ticking etc,but there is surely nothing better as a fan than actually winning the league. With a bit more brain when it comes to recruitment, you would surely bog this league, rather than finishing 6th, 4th etc. I cannot believe a club like yours does not really ever look like winning the league these days. It is sad that you continue to recruit poorly and waste your undoubted potential


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: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:08 pm  
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Cannot believe a club of your standing is signing Coyle. If your recruitment was half as good as your gates etc, you'd walk this league. Coyle is a very average player and not worthy of pulling on the Widnes shirt. Duffy is twice as good. I cannot understand why you continue to sign such ordinary players. We all know about the supposed box ticking etc,but there is surely nothing better as a fan than actually winning the league. With a bit more brain when it comes to recruitment, you would surely bog this league, rather than finishing 6th, 4th etc. I cannot believe a club like yours does not really ever look like winning the league these days. It is sad that you continue to recruit poorly and waste your undoubted potential


Perhaps you could wait and see what the squad looks like once we've finished recruitment before casting judgement?

Coyle is being brought in as cover and to give Mark Smith a breather.
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: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:39 pm  
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Cannot believe a club of your standing is signing Coyle. If your recruitment was half as good as your gates etc, you'd walk this league. Coyle is a very average player and not worthy of pulling on the Widnes shirt. Duffy is twice as good. I cannot understand why you continue to sign such ordinary players. We all know about the supposed box ticking etc,but there is surely nothing better as a fan than actually winning the league. With a bit more brain when it comes to recruitment, you would surely bog this league, rather than finishing 6th, 4th etc. I cannot believe a club like yours does not really ever look like winning the league these days. It is sad that you continue to recruit poorly and waste your undoubted potential


In the year we finished 6th, I recall we'd only just reformed as a business and recruited very late, with a 9 point deduction. This season we've won the NR cup after our previous coach recruited a very unbalanced squad.

Thomas Coyle with the right training and conditioning will be a very good addition to the squad and with several more signings to come, I'd wait before passing judgement. This will be the first team built by Paul Cullen and I've no doubt will be good enough to compete at the top.
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: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:09 pm  
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Cannot believe a club of your standing is signing Coyle. If your recruitment was half as good as your gates etc, you'd walk this league. Coyle is a very average player and not worthy of pulling on the Widnes shirt. Duffy is twice as good. I cannot understand why you continue to sign such ordinary players. We all know about the supposed box ticking etc,but there is surely nothing better as a fan than actually winning the league. With a bit more brain when it comes to recruitment, you would surely bog this league, rather than finishing 6th, 4th etc. I cannot believe a club like yours does not really ever look like winning the league these days. It is sad that you continue to recruit poorly and waste your undoubted potential


You've got to remember aswell that we will be sticking to the reduced salary cap of £300K so we cant afford to go and spend daft money on the likes of Rooney, Gene and Aizue.
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: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:58 am  
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You've got to remember aswell that we will be sticking to the reduced salary cap of £300K so we cant afford to go and spend daft money on the likes of Rooney, Gene and Aizue.


You would think a businessman with the acumen of Ste Oconnor would have found a way round it by now. :lol: :lol:

On Coyle again, i see everyone keeps saying about getting him fit and attitude, well Wigan couldnt sort him i doubt Widnes can. I remember when we had him on loan and had to send him back because he wasnt good enough to get in the team. Reminds me a bit of Hemmingway.
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