200k of that is IL's money which went their way for Gleeson.

Read the rest of the above as i was editing it.

And i was never saying we didn't pay good money for players like Andy Greg, but we were far from the only team in that game like some people try and pretend.

It's just easier for some people from some clubs (and i'm not even putting yourself in this category) to play the victim.

The thing is I was there, and watching the games, not just reeling off some clichéd rhetoric about something I know nothing about.

Steve Ella, I get what you are saying although during th decade of sucess you may have had some great battles and some losses but the record speaks for itself. Even the better teams of the day would compete with you for 60 minutes then your fitness and quality would kick in and you would run away with games. Of course you slipped up every now and again but you got back on the wagon and victories continued.

My team had some tremendous battles with yourselves in the 80s and 90s but if you look at the overall results against the other better at the time teams i.e. Leeds and Saints, Widnes and also Halifax I would imagine the stats are heavily in your favour.

As an opposition fan (especially Wire fans) Wigan were the team to beat but it was seldom done unfortunately and your consecutive appearences in Finals and Championships was seen as the game was going stale. We went into games with thr hope we would get one over you but most times it wasn't to be. I was also around during that time an remember the opinions of the Wigan club and unfortunaely to some of us the attitude of certain members of your club has stuck and that is why you still get the reaction from some fans of certain clubs .

Until the introductionof SL then it all changed thankfully. At least the honours are being spread out over the last decade with a number of teams winning the comps. Also we are now competing with Wigan infact have a fairly good record over recent years



Anyway too late for all this my spellings going to pot off to bed no

Good Night

It's interesting how you can have such a different perspective of it - go back and do a proper analysis of the super league period versus the equivalent number of years prior to it. I think you'd be surprised to find a lot of it was a lot closer than you think.



Seasons won that were really close hard seasons:

1989/1990 League Championship (Wigan won by 4 points over Leeds with Widnes/Bradford/Saints within 6). Knocked out of Lancashire cup Oldham, Premiership trophy by Bradford

1990/1991 League Championship (Wigan won by 2 points over Widnes on the LAST day of the season). Knocked out of the Lancashire cup by Widnes, Regal trophy by Bradford, Premiership trophy by Featherstone


1992/1993 League Championship (2 way split points difference decider: Wigan/Saints. Lost in Premiership trophy final to Saints

1993/1994 League Championship (3 way split decided on points difference: Wigan/Bradford/Warrington). Lost in Regal trophy final - Hammered by Castleford

Seasons where Wigan failed to win:

1987/1988 League Championship (Wigan came THIRD by 4 points to Widnes, Saints/Bradford/Wigan level on points)
1988/1989 League Championship (Wigan LOST by 3 points to Widnes, with Leeds 3rd)


Seasons where we were dominant in the League:

1986/1987 Freakish Season with Ellery Hanley scoring 59 tries and playing out of his incredibly talented skin, yet we were still knocked out of the challenge cup away at Oldham in our first round on a freezing night (I was there). The biggest Season for Wigan in the past 30 years (we hadn't won the league for 27 years)

1991/1992 Won by 8 points, but still got knocked out of the Lancashire Cup (knocked out by Saints) and the Regal Trophy (knocked out by Salford)

[i1994/1995 Centenary season - if we'd had this side and they'd played like they did that season for the 10 years, then you'd be right to claim we were totally dominant.[/i

The PRE FULL SALARY CAP Super League year:

We then still managed to lose Super League 1 to Saints who had *cough* put their hand in their pockets and bought players *cough*, and got knocked out of the Challenge cup by Salford. And all this prior to the introduction of a full salary cap (dispensations made for "GB" players etc)

Honestly mate it was a hell of a lot closer time than some peoples memory is lending them to believe, or than who's own supporters at the time thought it was far from a forgone conclusion.

Honestly i'm pleased to see other teams doing well, especially outside of the "big four", above any club partisanship i'm a rugby league fan, but please don't tarnish the memories and achievements of multiple teams over the years.

And yes this is all massively off-topic, I just fear we're heading towards football, were opposing sides spew bile and vitriol, debate is thrown aside over trolling and points scoring, and history sadly falls by the wayside.

Back on topic, if anybody wants to pay 300k for Myler, they're more than welcome to do it and nothing wrong with it. I hope overall the money helps Salford and they can put it to good use.

Unproven? Only one other halfback in SL has more tries and assists than him combined and that is Danny Orr and take into account that Richie has only played 18 games in a very poor side. I think it would be a great idea to have a long hard to think before you post, as for comparisons to Eastmond and Myler I think they all offer something but at the moment it's clear that Myler offers more. I'd like to point out as well that it isn't £300k it's nowhere near that.