Ben Currie who played for your u16's this year and was your star man. As signed profesional forms at Warrington. A big surprise!

Couldnt of been that good if we didnt sign him up?

He declined your offer.

Well its up to him isn't it. Sure our club won't be losing any sleep.

Nope but like i said i find it a big surprise. He was the only Wigan player that looked a talent when you played our Saints u16's this year and he is also a massive Wigan fan.

To be on your books then sign Pro forms at Wire is baffling.

Just out of interest Bilko. Did you see the lad play ? What did you make of him ?

Obviously Wire offered him more money! Doesnt really matter we have a wealth of talent all across the board and im sure theres alot more where they came from, good luck to him

I was at that game at Saints and saw our Under 16s opening match v Salford but I'm not the best for analysing individuals. I always look at the team and to be honest I wasn't that overawed by the limited action I saw from our Under 16s but for the Saints game I wrote in [url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=839=#FF0000my report[/url that we suffered injuries in game which took the game away from us, so it was a hard performance to judge on.

On paper he was top try scorer in the 6 games, which is not bad for a loose forward. That suggests perhaps the lad has something. Really hard to tell at that age. We shall see in the next few years.

For you to say that he is a massive Wigan fan, however declined our offer, says to me that Warrington have offered him a hell of a lot more and maybe he isnt a big a fan as you say.

IMO I think this is more to do with Warrington being to lazy scout for their own youth players and when a talented Wigan youngster, is in talks before signing a Pro contract, they will try and get in there with more money. Hopefully will come back to bite them on the harris one day.

If he is a money grabber already he isnt gonna be much good when he grows up or he would of trusted his ability and stayed with the club he supposedly supports

You'd hope he'd have people advising him for the long term instead of signing for any club (us included) solely for money.

Good luck to the kid.

He might have gone due to the fact he would be well into his 20s before he would get 1st team action at Wigan as LF is not a position we are short of young players coming through.

From what I've heard about him, I wouldn't describe him as a 'top prospect'. I'd describe him as an okay player in an okay team.

You forget all our young players are top prospects well thats how others see it.

money talks,warrington can offer what they want salary cap? what salary cap.

If thats the reason then good riddance. You have to earn your place in our team, if he doesnt like that he wouldnt get anywhere at Wigan. Considering some people on here who have seen him a few times dont think hes that good then i doubt anybody at the club will be crying about it

he was offered a better contract at warrington,plus surprize surprize,cash in hand.

More money

you lot are clueless

Wonder if Wigan did they same with Jamie Hodgkiss and Callum Wright coming from Warrington

Does that mean Wigan and Saints are lazy as well who both have recently been taking our U15s and U14s?.

Some crap on this thread.

The lad has probably weighed up his future options.

Wigan have a plethora of young back row forwards, Hansen, Tomkins, Mossop, Farrell,Tuson and Walker.

Behind them in the U18's they have Bridge, Molloy and Hughes.

He would have to be exceptional to get in ahead of those players.

Joe Mellor signed for wigan because they offered him over double what warrington did.

swings and roundabouts.

There's no guarantee he'll make it and if Warrington are offering an extra 5k per year over 3 years for example he'd be mad not to take it.

He could easily be cut from the Wigan squad when he turns 19/20 and be left playing semi-pro/amateur RL.

Good luck to him - i'm sure given he was in negotiations with Wigan already that he's not taken this decision lightly.

Did Mellor get offered more money? i heard his dad (Sean Mellor) had a fall out with Paul Cullen.

Either way, that was one top prospect that got away.

unsure if sean had a fallout with cullen or not... what i do know is that Joe was more impressed with what wigan had to say to him about his future.. and also what they were offering to put in his pocket.

It isn't unusual for teams to sign players from adjoining towns. As for the 'lazy scouting' comment, that is truly cretinous.

We have signed players from South Wales, North Wales, Cumbria and West Yorkshire. I would wager Peter Farrell's car has a fair few miles on the clock.