2 Wire lads nominated Thewils and Nicholson

Thewlis has been good. I'm a massive fan of Nicholson, but he's not shown that much yet. After watching the dally M awards this morning, the 3 nominees for this award just proves the MASSIVE gulf in the quality of players in the respective competitions.

Would be nice to see Thewlis get some recognition, but I doubt they'd look beyond a Wigan player this year.

If Brad o Neill is that good(and I rate the lad), why have they signed kruise Leeming on a long term contract? It must be soul destroying to play in Wigans academy when all they do is bring players in.

And O'Neil has only played half the season

Wigan have been claiming Siddal as an Eastern district of their town for quite a while now, so they probably just see Leeming as another pureblood Wiganer off the production line.

I know that's tongue in cheek - but I think we're going to see them both on the pitch at the same time next season. We've recently been moving O'Neill to 13 for spells when Powell comes off the bench, and I think we'll be seeing something similar with Leeming. He's only 21 and already looks ahead of where Powell was at his best, so there's no way we're not seeing him as integral to us for the next few years at least.

Being biased I think O'Neill deserves it and will get it, but I've been impressed by Thewlis and like most Wiganers I wish Nicholson was still playing for us.

He's played more than Thewliss or Nicholson.

He's played more than Thewlis or Nicholson.

how many games has he played?

24 out of 27 according to this

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thats surprising, i was of the thought that he didn't make an appearance till at least a third through the season, and then halfway when powell got replaced starting at 9

To be fair, I think at the start of the year he was still seen as Powell's successor & understudy, rather our first choice hooker. So I can definitely see why you would think that he would've missed a few more.

Powell's injury came at a time where it was increasingly hard to justify O'Neill not being the main man, and since then he's not looked at all out of place playing big minutes in a key position. I wouldn't like to say what his 'ceiling' is, but to look as good as he has done at such a young age takes some doing.