Get Guerrier's lawyers to check over the word "established"

It clearly says established first team player. Somebody making their debut could under no circumstances be classed as 'established first team'.

I do agree it should be easy enough to send somebody along who has played plenty but won't necessarily be playing this week.

Glancing through a forum like this is more than enough for most of them.

Aye - it is dangerous to tar them all with the same brush though. Despite the stick that the BBC get, I do think the likes of Riley and Woods do some good stuff, and there are very often some decent features or videos of players on there.

Ben Davies will do.

If it avoids a fine and annoys a few more people that wouldn't bat an eyelid if 'some' other clubs did this then great.

new role for Amos Roberts?

Bloody hell, you're not even trying are you?



At least go for somebody who has played for you this year, and perhaps even into double figures lol!

Other clubs would get stick if they did it.

Looking at that list, we seem to have met our requirements as it relates to the set RFL/SL PR guff, and there was a play-off media day at Old Trafford last week I think when the Dream Team was announced. Like you say we have a weekly media conference and it's up to us how we populate that.

Yep, the 'standard' list of functions I would expect is the way of the RFL giving the clubs notice at the start of the year.

It is the whole thing about reasonable and unreasonable access which is probably the factor here.

I'd like to know what the Wigan players think about this?

True, but it's quite easy for Wigan to say that they've met the requirements they have to and it is reasonable for them to ask that the player concentrate on the biggest match of the season so far.

As has been mentioned previously we did this in the run-in to the Leeds game that got us to the GF last season, but the over-reaction this time speaks volumes and is the issue that some of us have.

I made the point on another board, that the possible 'over-reaction' as most Wigan fans see could be due to the rise in popularity of Twitter in RL circles. I have all the journos on there, and found out about this from them, kicking up a bit of a stink, so loads of fans are going to see these angry reactions and react on the back of that (from both sides).

Previously, it may just get a mention in the press (like the Mirror's coverage today - a 1 liner about it) and wouldn't be that prominent.

The simple fact is that people would have reacted exactly the same if this was Wire or Saints or Leeds etc. It may suit those with the seige mentality, but just like when Saints adopted that approach, not everybody is out to get you!

I think we'd better agree to disagree about whether it would be the same if other teams had done it, hence my point about Smith earlier, but we've done that one to death so best to leave alone.

Re the siege mentality, I think the "ban" is probably part of Maguire's plan to help get the team focused again after the drop-off since Wembley, and any "us and them" mentality can probably only help.

The lads have trained really well. As long as we stick to what we've been doing in training the performance will take care of itself.





















Like thank Tissot.

How are the lads going to overcome the strong smell of onions, garlic and snails?

You've got to stick these on Twitter to help the journos who can't feed their kids this week.

Best post I've seen in a while.

Shove Gareth Hock into the room and turn the lights out.

he's not a wire fan! read how he describes wire as "they" rather than "we"

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... _1_3800196 1x interview by 1x established first team player. Job done

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... _1_3800196 1x interview by 1x established first team player. Job done

The player has to be fit to play IIRC.

Just noticed it does say uninjured. Fielden doesn't count does he?

Having never really done weights, is 180kg a lot?

I believe the world record is around 450kg.

Still very impressive from Fielden to bench press nearly 400lb. Particularly when you take into account it's not what he solely trains to do.

180kg is massive for a Rugby League player.

Apparently Brent Webb can bench 180kg as well which is even more impressive.

And better than Webb, Kylie Leuluai has done 3 reps of 226kg, which is probably as much as WWE Wrestlers can do.