Dont expect alot for next season, or you will be dissapointed

Huby is our top forward this season.
He is just at the right age 26 for a forward to mature.

I cant believe how good he has got this season, looks leaner and faster....has a good off load. Most of all he's showing a lot of passion on the field. Our next captian maybe.

He will be better than Lynch, he's got alot of years in front of him yet

Craig Huby is 24, not 26.

Still got another 7/8 years in him yet. Only 2(?) years off his testimonial season, this being his eighth.

Soz, i think your right fully.

Huby is a quality prop and must be pushing for, as Stevo says, 'a plane ticket down under for the 4 nations.'

As good a season as huby has had and as much as I like him he should not play international rugby this year. In the future though? Who know's. He has time on his side and the best development is still ahead of him. Another season almost done and more progression made. Keep your head down and keep up the hard graft chubs.

I think Sarge had his best game of the season so far. He hasn't looked the same player this season but yesterday he ran well with the ball and tackled well too

I've got a horrible feeling we will end up with either feka or fielden.

danny orr meant to be signing good signing, jonny campell looks a great prospect and needs to be playing super league would be on cheap wages so again a decent signing. richie mathers is a good signing but does come up with some right clangers, andrew ryan? could be an option would be great for a year or 2.

It dosen't guarantee anything and is a big money risk.

Not a huge amount. The positions that the new players have come in all play in positions where we haven't got a youngster ready to step up to, with the exception of Hoffman (whom i get the feeling was just a "he's too good to miss out on" type signing)

The young players on the fringes at the moment are:

Davies > Out on loan next year, replacing Fielden or Coley in 2012.
Farrell/Tuson > Replacing Hoffman in a years time

Josh Charnley will take Carmonts spot in a years time ideally.

Stefan Marsh will take Gleeson spot in 2 years time.


At the end of this season we are releasing 4 overseas players, and only have 3 incoming. That surely frees up a space for another yooungster in the squad. So many wigan-produced players make up our team now I have no worries about us making the same mistake again.

You must be on the edge of the old salary cap with that trio

Apparently Feka and Fielden account for a quarter of the cap between them, and they are both off contract.

Add to that Bailey, Phelps, Deacon etc etc. it more than covers their 3 salaries.

Three good , well very good signings, cant understand why you ever took deacon on though

Do we want feka ? Be fat as a barrel again in no time playing for cas and is so predictable.
Fielden still tries and has the odd good game but isn't a patch on the Bradford fielden, probably best left alone imho.
Not interested in the wigan cast offs.

[iMeanwhile, Matterson has dismissed speculation linking the Tigers with a move for prop Iafeta Paleaaesina, who is expected to be released by Wigan at the end of the season.[/i

That's from the bottom of the article about Danny Orr on SportingLife

Thank buggery for that, couldnt cope with him and mathers.

Ive heard alot of rumours at odsal that you have signed Glenn Hall from us for next season. Hes done nothing for us this season but cant understand why you would want to sign him when he has 2 year left and has been garbage???

Not a clue at all.

utter waste of space. I have never seen such an unfit pro player in my life.

Id rather have Nero now he has turned down a new contract than him! I take it he also counts as a quota player? Double waste of space unless Bradford are still paying his wages for us.

Can't see us signing Hall. We're pretty much sorted in the second-row with the likes of Jones, Ferres, Widders, Holmes and Davies able to play there.

And snitch.

I would hope we replace clayton with holmes, and davies can fill in like holmes did this year.

I would be happy for that to happen and possibly another junior to step-up from the academy. I've said it before and I'll say it now we should have 13 first team players and 13 back-up players - one for each position.

FB - Mathers; Thompson
W - Owen; Wainwright
C - Arundel; Evans
C - McGoldrick; ?
W - Dixon; ?
SO - Widders; Orr
SH - Chase; ?
P: - Huby; Higgins; Walker
H: Hudson; Milner
P: - ?; Jackson
SR: - Snitch; Jones
SR - Ferres; Holmes
LF - Westerman; Davies.

By that judgement we need at least one centre, a winger and a decent prop and possibly a junior half/ a new half.

Elima for prop, wood for half (if brierly isnt ready), centre not sure, but widders, thompson and ferres can all cover there.