Hoffman went last year.
Leuluai already announced he's leaving at the end of the year.
Finch is rumoured also to be going home.
And now Lima has confirmed he'll be joining up with the King & Fadge next year.

It's not looking good for our neighbours up th'M6.

To be fair, under Wane I expected them to fall this year but credit where it's due to him, after half the season they are top. But what is the reason for this exodus of overseas players in your opinion? Is it Wane? Is it Fadge going home? Maybe STomkins wage is taking up too much salary cap to compete with wages? Or is it just the imminent increase of the NRL salary cap makes it impossible for the ESL teams to compete?

Not that I'm biased in any way, it's always nice to hear Wigan losing key players - Moran we'll have Tomkins next as we don't have a salary cap

Just maybe the best club in the world the best ground the best fans is not the place to be

Glad you admit it

To be fair we all know why they came over here to help Melbourne out Hoffman we was all told out right 1 season only, Finch is rumored to be after big cash and if he is i dont blame us not budging only 1 player can on our team and thats a certain Mr Tomkins

Lima might be family reasons might not but thats his decision and if he wants to go let him no point forcing the issue the same happened with Barrett, He's been the best prop in sl up to now i just hope he carries on like it for the rest of the season

Seriously who cares?

They will surely find decent replacements anyway.

We need only worry about ourselves.

We have the best and deepest squad and have played poorly apart from a hand full of games yet we are right in the mix.

Do you actually believe what you type?

I think a fair amount of it is just simply that the quality of the lads that we got was a bit better than the standard quota player (if you take into account their ages). Hoffman was only ever going to stay 1 year because of Melbournes issues, Lima is a quality player who's still under 30, and although Finch hasn't gone yet, if he does it's because again he isn't exactly close to being over the hill.

Leuluai is probably because he's achieved all he can over here.

Our foreign players are going back to the NRL cause it's a better league and they are actually good enough to play in it. Nothing you can do if they want to play in a better league.

I suppose at least our foreign players are good enough to be wanted in the NRL.

Apart from the first bit (tongue in cheek) what is there not to believe about what he wrote??

i can't work out if that last bit is supposed to be a dig or not.

Maybe it's the language barrier, they can't understand Wane grunting at them.
Plus there's only finite amount of times you can walk around Haigh Hall before it gets a bit boring.

But surely that's what we should be trying to do as well?

With our great youth system perhaps we could start thinking of shipping out some of our expensive NRL imports and promoting some young home grown talent for once?

Ring any bells?

That looks nothing like Quasimodo

No mate it's not a dig although I can see why you may think that. All I meant was, it (might) show that the imports we've had in recent years have been good ones.

Superleague certainly needs more overseas players on one year contracts.... thats for sure.

As I said in my post above^ I wasn't having a dig at you guys


And yes, king is absolutely good enough to play in NRL and in a way proves my point, that the best of the imports will a.ways be tempted to go back and play in a (sadly) better/more competitive league.

With Roberts retirement through injury, and goodness knows what will happen with Fielden (rumoured to be fit for August), we will have lots of changes thats a fact. But a hell of a lot of salary and quota spots free. It will be interesting to see what IL and Wane have up their collective sleeves. And as this matter is being commented on your board, clearly of interest to some of you lot too.

See you at the next Brigantes meeting Yed..

Tim Smith
Cameron Phelps
Feka Palaesena
Amos Roberts

All top draw signings?

You can add Gelling to the list.

Think he was on about

Trent Barrett
Pat Richards
Tommy Leuluia
George Carmont
Ryan Hoffman
Brett Finch
Jeff Lima

Smith went back to the NRL btw

True but.

[uReturn to the NRL (2010)[/u

In late 2009, Smith began training with the Brisbane Broncos in a bid to win a return to the NRL through their Queensland Cup feeder side Easts Tigers. Months later, he signed with the Cronulla Sharks. In his first match back in the NRL, he played his former club the Parramatta Eels, and was influential in leading the Sharks to a 11–0 win, scoring a penalty goal and a field goal. Since then however Smith has been inconsistent and subpar which has resulted in his axing to the NSW Cup.

Just saying.

Isn't Tim Smith playing for Wakefield at present ? Sure he played against us last week .