Stuart Fielden. £450k for a useless tw*t. Thats gotta take some beating.

Terry Holmes is the one I thought of immediately on reading the thread title.



Other notable candidates include John Gallagher, Dai Young and, for the oldies amongst us, McDonald Bailey (Olympic 100m bronze medallist) who signed for Leigh in the 1950s and Arthur Rowe (European and Commonwealth Shot Putt gold medallist) who signed for Oldham in the 1960s. The last 2 played about 3 games in total between them I think.

Fielden was shot before he came to Wigan. He'd been nowhere near previous form for much of that season at Bradford.

Doc Murray for Wigan, funded by the sale of Sean Long!

Tame Tupou @ Bradford. Heralded as the replacement for Leslie and played 14 games over 2 years and eventually was 'sacked' for not training and may still go to court for compo.

Ivan Cleary was a good one for the Giants, signed his contract to come over and was regarded as the Clubs biggest signing for many a moon, then weeks before he was due decided to Retire from playing and take up a coaching role instead





then there was Andrew Tangata-Toa

Also dave smith for leigh, we were losing 10-12 to rochdale and he went through on the full back with support, then went for a drop goal.



unbelievable

For me ours would have to be David Bishop. He had the talent to have really taken the team places but not the temperament. Spat his dummy, left us in the lurch and gave the club's decline a helping hand.

David Stephenson to Leigh. Worst value for money ever.

Matt Seers

Wigan had a couple of doozies in the early SL seasons, Doc Murray & the centre (koloto, koloi?) spring to mind.



Biggest flop? Must be Mark Carroll.



"No one's hard enough to take me on!"

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Neither were bad signings IMO.



It wasn't Bell's fault that he suffered a career ending injury in the first game or so. Also, Ben Walker was OK for us except when he was played at FB. Mullins was probably the worst from that era, he came over requiring surgery without telling Leeds (they should have given him a medical first though), and didn't ever seem that bothered to play for us, then goes home and signs for an NRL club (Roosters?) and had a decent season.



If we're sticking with Leeds the decision to sign Gareth Stephens in place of Jason Robinson has to be up there.

Matt Rodwell (Warrington)

Agreed!