Wigan decided against offering him a new deal. Thoughts? Imo I'd have kept him as back up.good utility player. Just hope that doesnt mean a deal new deal for pyrce!

Best of luck to him

Opens the door and the cap to Billy

A wise move IMO. I would have been shocked had we kept him.

Although I don't think we will/should retain Pryce either - I don't know how you can justify letting Ainscough go (and now apparently Phelps) but keep Karl Pryce.

In Madge we trust

Sad to see him go, a decent player, but these tough decisions need to be made.

top player i think we should hav got a new deal . pryce and ainscough never good enough am sure people on here have,nt got a clue they must watch the game with blinkers on

How hard to read is that!

He will be replaced in the squad by an academy player hopefully. So thats now 5 non english players out and 3 in.

Wonder if that will get a mention in the RL news? Doubt it.

by some points on this post mate me thinks you have blinkers on.

we have better lads who are coming through the system than phelps, dont get we wrong he's a decent bloke un all but to keep him on a Q spot makes no sense.

all the best to him however

Decent player, and well liked by the fans, but like Feka not worth a quota spot.

Best of luck to him,

But you have to reckon the fact that we were able to wait until the end of October before making a decision, without another club snapping him up, rather speaks volumes.

That said I'm sure he will do a good job for another SL club if he can get one.

Poor from the club IMO. They should have made this decision earlier to give him a better chance of getting fixed up.

He'd go well at another SL club but he'd be an excellent championship player at a club like Widnes. Probably end up back in SL with them too.

But Wigan waiting to see if they want to offer him a contract won't have stopped him being able to explore other avenues.

Here's hoping

may not seem to far fetched, as he may only get a 1 year SL deal but if we could offer him a 3 year one with two in SL (if of course) he'd be better off for it.

When you first signed him I thought was a bit of strange deal, more so when moved to FB but he really stood up and took to the role but his injuries were a shame. Though when you have Roberts, Richards, Goulding & poss Tomkins to fit into a back 3 you can't keep everyone I guess.

My thinking too.

It's highly possible that Wigan were waiting and hoping that he'd get himself fixed up elsewhere, but the fact that he didn't manage that may have forced their hand, and was quite telling in other ways - i.e. did nobody else want him, and why?

I've met Cameron and he's a thoroughly decent lad, but on the field I sometimes wondered if I was watching a different player from other Wigan fans.

Someone said he was as good a full-back as Amos (when Amos was really buzzing). I can't accept that at all. Phelps, for me, was an average-to-okay utility player. In the real world of contracts, quotas, salary caps, it was surely impossible to see him being retained at Wigan for much longer.

Gutted really, although its what i expected, just think it's quite sad how he was our first choice 1 at the start of the season and i thought he was excellent to be honest at the end of last season and start of this, then he's just been far too unlucky with injuries

I'm really sad to see him go, and Aoife is going to be gutted.

I hope he gets fixed up with a new club soon as he's a really good covering FullBack IMO.

It was just unfortunate that that he picked up the injuries and then had Pat, followed by both Amos and Sam to hold him out of the team.

I'm sort of disapointed because he was superb at the back end of last season, he was my MOM in the big one last year as well and he continued that form into the start of 2010. The first couple of games this year showed he is a really good player.

However without him being our first choice number 1, he is not worth a spot. I'm sure he will do really well at FB somewhere else. I think one of the smaller clubs in super league could get alot out of him.

Is there a link?

He showed us how a full back should play in attack, could easily have been an assist machine, just unlucky to come behind Sam and Roberts.

He should get a SL contract imo, although whoever signs him would probably get ridiculed - but he is a far better Full Back than a lot in this league.

Shame he was a nice guy too, it seems to have undermined his ability somewhat, due to people praising him for that instead of his ability, leading to others claiming that being nice was all he was.

Good luck to him.

Correct decision IF true. he was a great attacker but seemed to go missing when he needed to make 1 on 1 tackles. May well have made a good stand off IMO

History will judge whether Phelps was a big loss or just another Mark Cannon.

For those not old enough, Cannon was a previously unknown Aussie stand-off/centre who we signed in 1984. He had several very good games for us, and was tipped as the hero to win the Cup for Wigan that year, though Widnes and Joe Lydon had other ideas.

People lamented his departure the following season, but within a couple of years - when a new age at Wigan had clearly dawned - nobody remembered him at all.

If it turns out that Phelps has left because he has no role to play in a truly great Wigan side - as Mark Cannon did - then, though I liked him as a lad, I'll not be upset.

Just the sort of player we're in need of!!!
Any chances???

My thoughts exactly. IMO Phelps will either go Quins/Salford, where I reckon he'll do well.

Good luck to him

Don't see why not. As i've said before I think he would be a more than capable fullback for anyone outside the top 4.

We seem to have Full-Back covered, could he play centre or wing???