I've heard your signing a young lad from leigh miners rangers, he's turned down st helens, warrington and salford and is a future great britain prospect his name is MIKE RIDLEY and he's been the leading try scorer for leigh miners for the past 4 years

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What age group?

sounds like a good prospect but how anyone can say a future great britain prospect is beyond me....Let him sign professional first, then work his way through to Super League first.....then when he is established there, lets see what happens.............

Lad only just getting signed at 16 years old. long way to go mate, playing for a club will be alot different to the step ups required but I am sure the young man will no that..

Good luck to him, hope he does achieve all you expect from him

Good job he doesn't play for Chorley Panthers.

It must be bollox. I thought we only signed lads from Pats?

Liam Carberry was signed from Bold Miners A.R.L.F.C. St, Helens.

A little OT but some of things that Lenegan mentioned in regards to the academy and foundation and the initiatives that are being put in place sound very good, and if it helps us attract the kids away from joining are rivals and coming to us the better. It seems that competition for these kids is increasing like mad and I hear through the grapevine that some of the sums being paid are very large, is this the case?

Wigan picked up Stuart Littler from the miners. Gave him 1 session and binned him off and salford pounced. They picked up Ricky Bibey from Leigh East when he was 11 also.

What we all forget is that they were only spotted the day they played against St Pats

I didn't realise Ray French posted on here.

Shouldn't that be blackbrook

i know Mike
he is a great lad.......needs to improve on the high ball but otherwise GREAT

i no him too got abit of a gob on him but needs to work on his passing because his passing as either gone forward or over the players head into touch , but hes a decent and handy player

So he can't catch and can't pass? He'll fit right into the team!

Yawn.

he does have alot of talent and good luck to the lad- ive been saying for a few years now that he would be a good signing for anyone, hes a decent utility back.

the only reason he's just been signed is the fact he supports wigan and they have only just looked at him... Scored 4 at weekend

what a great loss that was

Right, no more signings from Miners then!

Future GB star

they didnt sign him.....but from their rivaks they got Bibey

Good point, always been a problem at Wigan.