Quote ="NickyKiss"The difference was buttons anyway in the grand scheme of things (I think we were 100k higher than 2nd and 3rd) but I'd have liked Wigan to call them out on it. There was only ever going to be one end result from it and that was that fans across the game would say Wigan are spending their way to trophies again. It could've been an extra quid and it still wouldn't have mattered.'"
Basically, it's tough ###t on them. They're just going to have to lump it. The tide is moving against the salary cap ... not massively so, but there's a definite shift. And under Mike Danson, Wigan are not going to suddenly turn off the tap.
It will be interesting to see, if Wigan do start to clean up on a regular basis, how the other top clubs respond. The last time this happened, they were woeful. None of them stepped up to the plate, and that halcyon age only ended because, among other things, Wigan found a collapsing coal mine under the new stand, which soaked up all the spare cash. That came as well as overspending on certain players, it has to be said, though the lack of interest across the game due to no one else being capable of giving Wigan a match was also an issue, as crowds had inevitably started to dwindle.
