Can we have Brown back now?

Excellent signing. Looking forward to the next few years.

absolute brilliant work from the club to get this over the line...PROPER GOOD!

I guess Patton is now injury cover foe 2019 and insurance for Austin being here in 2020.



Brown to leave end of 2019.



It looks like we are on the cusp of assembling the best HB partnership in SL.



As big a signing as Moz was I think.

Despite this being described as SL's biggest signing, the good old BBC have treated RL with it's usual disdain.



The BBC Sport website (run, I assume, from Media City, Salford) didn't equate this news big enough for their sports headlines (but did include the latest tennis failures and women's RU).

However, BBC Radio Manchester (run from the same place) DID cover themselves in glory, for this morning's 3 sports desks, when they announced that we have signed GEORGE Widdop.

Well done to all concerned.

And Radio Manchester did a feature of Wigan's press day and featured heavily on Zac H drug rehab. No mention of Wire or Widdop

Excellent management of this signing by the club, kept it very quiet until the deal was more-or-less done. Really shows the determination of Messrs Moran and Middleton to invest heavily in the future. Now we need more of Warrington's 200,000 population to respond and start going to matches at the HJ.

This signing alone could see the first game this season sell out. Not worth getting excited about though as other fans have already pointed out that Widdop is a crock/overrated, Austin will be here for 1 season only (if he even sees the season out) and our squad is going to be ridiculously lop-sided with just five quality, highly paid players and the rest made up of match stewards and some of the women's team.

swimming got mentioned too!



Our sport IS treated like £ by the BBC. The Sky Sports News website had a good piece.

Cannot help but think that outside of the rfl world he is not a big name long time since we had scully in the Gillette advert. Even in the nrl you think who would attract general media coverage Sam burgess cronk Smith. An d its certainly got something to do with the hodge podge international fixtures and no GB team. Which seem to be being addressed.

Great post Ratty

Spot on regarding attendances, the interest is there but the town needs to back the team and the investment made by the board by turning up in numbers. We need to buck the trend of smaller turn outs across the sport and send a message that we are a club to be reckoned with