From the Band of Four (Kingy, Louis, Monas and Hicksy) only Mick Monas will survive come season end....

How instrumental have those 4 guys been to where Wire have come today....

Will always remember Monas comment at his first fans forum "Warrington will only improve as a team once their defence improves" How true a statement that was....

Keep the Faith 2011....

Pity he wasn't moved to hooker sooner & its a bigger pity we didn't have Smithy on board earlier!!!

Ah I loved Chris Hicks and was devastated when he left. He performed from the get-go and never once didn't earn his wages. He was always solid and dependable and I never feared when he was under a high ball!

Chris Hicks has been one of the very best wingers I have ever seen at Wire in over 30 years.
He's up there with John Bevan (not born when Brian was around) and Mark Forster, and ahead of Dezzie and Richard Henare.
Faster than Joel and as good under the high ball in both defence and attack and just as powerful.
Rarely made a mistake (I remember one against Hull when he was over the line and the ball was knocked out of his hands before he put it down - but that's the only one!).
Watched his hat-trick from 2010 Wembley again - all of those tries needed scoring. None were gifts. Power, athleticism and brains.

Having said that - we'll miss King more because Joel is a very good replacement for Hicks, and Waterhouse for Louis.
Matt King does so much work in attack and defence and ran himself into the ground at Hull - said he was 'blowing a bit' at the end - no wonder given his performance.
A real loss for us.
Will be interesting to see how we go without him.......

Glad we've got Monas tied up. Awesome hooker and general. Takes the pressure off Lee.
Monas is in with a shout for MOS I think.

That's a bit contentious, fez
Hicks was a BRILLIANT winger for us, but, better than DESSIE?????? Ohhhh (opinions eh, oodavem)

back on thread, the 4 that Cullen/Moran brought in, have been FANTASTICHE for us, despite a couple of them having 'dark days' at our club.

Yes he was better than Dessie - for us.

Maybe not over his whole career, Dessie for Leigh had a fantastic record. But on performances for us, Hicks was the complete package as a winger, Dessie was a hero who had his flaws.

Dessie was hard and used to tackle with his head and because he never spoke to the media had that Cantona-esque enigma quality about him. But he lacked height, was shaky when people kicked to him, and his try scoring record for us was nothing special, about on par with Forster. Dessie would never have dominated opposition wingers in the air like Hicks did.

People's memories are playing tricks with them. Yes, dessie was very shaky at the end of his time with us, but the first season he played for us was the best of any winger i have seen in my time(too young for either of the bevans).

Does Henry Fa'afili not get a mention, amazing finisher of tries.

Well he had a great try scoring record, I wouldn't say he was a great finisher. He was good in the air and did do some good takes from Briers kicks but how many of his tries were just running on the end of Briers and Gleeson's moves...?

I reckon if Rob Smyth had been around outside Gleeson, he would have got nearly as many tries as Fa'afili did.

I'm not so sure, a centre can only make so much room for his winger, the rest is on them to finish, he scored a hell of a lot tries that took some scoring did Henry.

Do you think Smith would have rated Fa'afilli? I'm a bit torn in my own head about it.

Well I can't claim to have seen all Dessies matches - and probably not even most of them. He was as hard as nails as has been said and was a good finisher and hard tackler, but not as good in the air and I seem to remember his passing wasn't too good.
So yes - it's Hicks for me.

Regarding Fa'afili - he was very very good and his partnership with Glees was top draw, but he was also lazy at times - particualrly at tracking back, and I don't think he'd have been able to score the 3 tries Hicks did at Wembley.

Just my personal thoughts.