Players You Were Most Disappointed In Losing From Your Club.

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

5 hours ago, Hanover XIII said:

Offiah. Followed by the backbone of the late 80s early 90s team once financial realities began to bite after the 93 Cup final.

This.

[johnh1]

8 hours ago, roversspud said:

Steve Nash ! As a 13 year old I cried when he left Rovers to go to Salford. Best player I've seen on a regular basis live. He could do everything 

That's interesting cos I was about the same age when Peter Banner went in the opposite direction and I was gutted to lose him!

[Mumby Magic]

Paul Newlove to Saints 

[Futtocks]

Another one was Luke Robinson (plus a few others such as Kevin Brown) to Huddersfield, as the club decided not to give home grown talent the chance they'd earned.

[Wollo Wollo Wayoo]

Bob Haigh and David Smith to Leeds.

Berwyn Jones to Bradford

Keith Smith to early retirement.

Willie Poching to Leeds.

[Curly perm]

Gary Price leaving Wakey for Fev hit me hard as a 10yr old in 1993! Lots of others over the years.

Recently, I could deal with Miller going but losing Johnstone and Batchelor was grim. 

[The 4 of Us]

Zak Hardaker from Wigan. I miss the jeapody. 

[Industria ditat]

8 hours ago, Hanover XIII said:

Offiah. Followed by the backbone of the late 80s early 90s team once financial realities began to bite after the 93 Cup final.

This was the beginning of the end for that great team, it slowly went downhill after that.

Also some years later Sean Long going to Saints. Don't really blame him because we were rubbish at the time. He wasn't with us very long but I had hopes we could build a better team around him.

[Anita Bath]

Apasai Toga to St George

Henderson Gill to Wigan

[bobbruce]

Scott Gibbs he was the ideal foil for Newlove on the other side and was developing into a really good RL player. Would’ve been great for him to finish his career in RL to see how good he could become. 

[Mark]

Les Holliday to Halifax, knew he was too good for us but the way he left with our board sacking his dad was terrible. Chris O’Sullivan as well when the same board decided to give up on staying up and send our overseas signings home half way through the season.

 

[Stirlin]

13 hours ago, marklaspalmas said:

Graham Steadman.

More than Deryck Fox and Paul Newlove which makes no sense, but there you go.

The bloke was pure class , when we won promotion the first big hitters to visit Clarence St were Widnes and they were backing off him , not having a clue what he was going to do with the ball.....neither did we the supporters.

[Dunbar]

Not my club and while he was a good player, he wasn't great but the way Denny Solomona left Castleford and Rugby League left a very poor taste in the mouth. 'Retiring' from rugby league, with two years still remaining on his contract was a farce.

[The Blues Ox]

I remember been pretty young and devastated when Greg Austin left Fax, further devastations down the line when Karl Harrison left and the Chester and Clinch. Micky Higham must be up there as well.

[David Shepherd]

Still not over Graeme Steadman moving to Cas.

[Gooleboy]

49 minutes ago, David Shepherd said:

Still not over Graeme Steadman moving to Cas.

He's back now!

[Andy JG]

I was actually gutted that Steve Halliwell left Leigh in 1986 to join St.Helens.

First game of the season Saints v Leigh at Knowsley Road; Halliwell gets the ball from the kick off, and Tony Cottrell completely poleaxes him.

 

 

  

 

 

[Wigan Riversider]

Despite working abroad at the time I was sad to see Sam Tomkins leave for NZ Warriors. I had a sports package so could watch SL and NRL games.

[Griff]

Cliff Lyons could have done great things at Sheffield.

[OMEGA]

2 hours ago, Griff said:

Cliff Lyons could have done great things at Sheffield.

OH well in that case I was upset when Wally Lewis went home to Australia

[Moe syszlak]

Can you imagine if warrington had the financial muscle in the 90s that they have now? We could've had both Harris and Sculthorpe playing in the same team together for years. 

[bobbruce]

2 hours ago, Moe syszlak said:

Can you imagine if warrington had the financial muscle in the 90s that they have now? We could've had both Harris and Sculthorpe playing in the same team together for years. 

Add in Briers and it’s not a bad spine to start off from. 

[Derwent]

Boxer Walker, plus him signing for Whitehaven made it worse.

[Red Willow]

On 11/05/2024 at 07:53, Dunbar said:

Not my club and while he was a good player, he wasn't great but the way Denny Solomona left Castleford and Rugby League left a very poor taste in the mouth. 'Retiring' from rugby league, with two years still remaining on his contract was a farce.

I have quite a list of players who walked out on contracts or failed to bother after signing a contract elsewhere.

[Dunbar]

2 minutes ago, Red Willow said:

I have quite a list of players who walked out on contracts or failed to bother after signing a contract elsewhere.

ok, thanks.