: Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:29 pm
tvoc wrote:
St Helens didn't just hand over Martin Gleeson to Warrington but the move still happened. Players still occasionally move when contracted. I'd be looking towards Castleford (currently looking for funding) to see if Shenton could become available anytime soon for the right price.
Apparently the WCC is a big money spinner to the English club involved (I think someone wise said that on here recently) it would be a shame to see those proceeds just sit in a bank account somewhere losing money.
If looking overseas Australia is literally full of players better than Gibson will ever now become. Plenty of Aussies seem to like giving SL a look up for a couple of seasons.
I don't disagree with the principle, but Aussies have not proved easy to get over here of late, and even there, the kind of really world class import we're always saying we need to insist on to avoid diluting standards is quite rare and would want a huge amount of money to tempt them here.
Otherwise we'd be relying on prising someone like Shenton away from a rival club, who would no doubt not be keen on weakening themselves to strengthen us and hence we would no doubt end up playing a grossly over-inflated price for the player who came in. There are very few players of anything like Gleeson's quality around, and the Wire approach of chucking huge amounts of money at them to get them in has little track record in terms of providing success.
I'm always in favour of the right player at the right price, I'm just unconvinced that those 2 factors coincide very often, especially at cnetre.
