He has played in the NRL before so that is not the issue. He was clearly not happy in 2017 & 2018. His form dipped whish was not helped by Wigan's injuries so he had no competition for his place. He was reported to be on a good contract and so him leavIng is probably the best outcome for Wigan and himself.

We get a trip to Toulouse or Toronto in the middle 8s. Happy days.

Given they get to spend at least three months back home in the Aussie summer I think that is fair comment.

Correct me if I'm wrong; In the last couple of months we've let two contracted players break their contracts, who have then gone on to more or less immediately sign with a NRL team for no fee?

Some shrewd business from the club there.

Both players have been given one year deals as squad players. They’ve hardly been falling over themselves to get them in and certainly wouldn’t have paid a fee. That would’ve left us paying the wages for two unhappy players who were on good money and more then likely not performing.

Seems decent enough business to me.

Quite right.

It baffles me why some fans seem to take a certain glee in leaping on any evidence they think they've found that the club is being mismanaged.

People have short memories.

I don't agree with everything IL has done, but during the Dave Whelan era, there were stories from journalists that, half the time at Wigan, there was no one even there to answer the phone.