Quote ="Pemps"The contract situation is here: 10 players out of contract at the end of the year. wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... age_id=122 Fielden is expected to re-sign but on a much reduced salary. Coley apparently hasn't decided if he's staying on or retiring.'" That's a lot of players' contracts expiring at the same time. Some might even say it is poor planning and start wittering-on about signing over 30's. I guess Carmont enforces his additional year now. Whilst Fielden's contract will be "much reduced" with him being out-of-contract you will still have to beat off competition for his signature and he won't come at a discount. I just pray that Karl Pryce is given another year.

Quote ="Pemps"The contract situation is here: 10 players out of contract at the end of the year. wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/in ... age_id=122 Fielden is expected to re-sign but on a much reduced salary. Coley apparently hasn't decided if he's staying on or retiring.'" That's a lot of players' contracts expiring at the same time. Some might even say it is poor planning and start wittering-on about signing over 30's. I guess Carmont enforces his additional year now. Whilst Fielden's contract will be "much reduced" with him being out-of-contract you will still have to beat off competition for his signature and he won't come at a discount. I just pray that Karl Pryce is given another year.

A lot of those players were only resigned last year with an additional 12 months. The idea of this was for Maguire to have a look at what we had and then build his own team around that in 2011 when has had a good look at the squad.

Carmont was supposedly undecided too but it's been in the local press that he wants to stay.

Fielden was 'rumoured' to be on £250K. I think we could slice somewhere in the region of £100K off that.

get the inspectors in, once a cheat always a a cheat

Obviously all three are improvements on what they've got. Obviously Maguire will play their best players irrespective of origin or age. He has done that this year.

However, our signing from Melbourne is miles better than any of them.

Hopefully not their accountant

The winger Quinn? with Hicks staying surely we can't sign anyone else who counts on the quota?

What....

Lima has played for Australia

Finch has played for NSW, Parramatta and Melbourne to name a few



Our props have been the weakest part of our team since 2006, now finally we will have a pack that can match any team presuming our other props re-sign



he has only played for Melbourne, he wants to make sure he his happy before making the move semi-permanent according to Maguire

No point in asking a Wigan supporter, all these players will be 'world class' and playing for peanuts for Wigan just out of respect and tradition.

Personally considering the last few years at Warrington, any overseas player can be a risk and may or may not perform as they did in the NRL.

King?

Marlon?

No Ledley...

Stop nicking my profile pic you...

Three quality siginings that should improve wigan. Obviously McGuire knows them better than most, but all overseas signings are a bit of a risk IMO (had Matt King and Monas been signed on one year deals would they still be in the UK nevermind at Warrington?).

No he hasn't - he's played for New Zealand.

What about the salary cap?

As the pie eaters are so interested in the issue I am sure they will all be worried.

What's with the selective reading? 4 old heads out, 3 in, where is there to mention to the salary cap?

Wire could get rid of all our stars and replace them with youngsters and still people would claim we were breaking the salary cap.

Brett Finch is average at best.

Cracking signings, they make Wigan very strong next year.

I think the signing of Josh Perry at Saints is a great signing. He is good!

I suppose they could strengthen Wigan but by how much? With the luxury of MSK i've managed to watch some NRL this year and haven't really been impressed with what i've seen of Lima or Finch. Wigan fans refer to Finch as the controlling half back but i've seen no evidence of that this season and Lima would be able to do more minutes than Feka. An example is this last week's game against Aukland. Finch looked more anonymous than S Tomkins against us and Lima, well, after about his 4th knock-on 1 commentator says 'he's not having a good game today' and the other says 'today, more like a few weeks'. I understand that different coaches can get more out of players as we've seen at Warrington this season but, what can Maguire get out of them 2 that Bellamy can't?

Finch is an interesting one. He plays in a team with Cooper Cronk who is the controlling half back, Cameron Smith who is the fulcrum of the team, Greg Inglis who is a go-to man if they need it and Billy Slater who pops up anywhere. Finch has not needed to control things at the Storm.

That is an interesting point

and I wonder what peacock of LEeds is thinking about meeting him next year!

I remember that fight very well, Perry definitley won it. Wonder if there will be any feelings there after that, hopefully add a bit of biff when the two sides meet, which isn't anything out of the ordinary!

Lets be honest if we'd signed Finch we would all be wetting ourselves about signing one of the NRL's most effective halfbacks, and a proper halfback who isn't a hooker halfback. If Wigan had signed Brett Hodgson we would be laughing at them for signing somebody two seasons past his best. It's all part of the game, confidently predict that the opposition have signed a dud.

What does everyone reckon about Maguire as a coach, had anybody even heard of him when he was announced as Wigan coach? I remember us predicting he would be a big gamble as somebody untried at the highest level. Could the gamble backfire on Wigan and Macguire turn out to be a flop?