you do have the players next year to be a very very dominant team
and if someone gets injured you jut pop in some young lad that gets the job done

You must have missed the 10 commandments about what's allowed as a Wigan fan

1. You must not be confident to win any game, otherwise you are Arrogant
2. You must think at least one player on your own team is utter garbage, stealing a living, and responsible for every ill in the world
3. You must feel that every other team in rugby league has better props
4. You're not allowed to complain about refs, as they only make mistakes for the other teams
5. You must accept that the RFL let you off with everything, regardless of all evidence to the contrary
6. You must accept that only your players commit offences, everybody else is just being hard but fair, whereas your own players are dirty little gits
7. Any young talented halfback you develop must be an arrogant dirty little toerag, whereas everybody elses are all saints
8. You must accept that you include far too many overseas players, and do feck all for homegrown talent or super league in general, no matter how many academy products are in your team or donated to other SL clubs
9. Look, you basically ruined rugby league, so everything is your fault forever, and you'd better just shut up and take whatever is dished out
10. You only ever win a match because you lay on for half an hour every tackle, and you play dull boring rugby, despite having scored more points than any other team in the league.

Hope that clears things up for you, enjoy being in the privileged position of being a non Wigan fan and not having to live by these 10 commandments.

Just about sums it up SEB.... I'm going to take myself off and beat myself with birch twigs, just for being a Wigan fan.... Oh the shame.... lol

Its taken Hemmings less than 2 minutes to start complaining about these signings. What a surprise.

That man is an ill-informed cretin of the highest order

Even when Wells presented him with a few facts about the situation, he simpily smirked, repeated his anti Wigan message and moved on.

Whats he said?

Give us all a brief on what he said please

IL his defying his own policy of giving Wigan kids a go
We are filling the team with imports
Wigan youngsters now have no chance of playing

etc etc

Sounds about right. Keep fanning the anti-Wigan flames Eddie you Tw@t

Its about time IL grew a pair of brass monkeys and defended our club publicly against the current tirade of anti-Wigan BS that the likes of Hemmings, Radio Manchester, coaches of other SL clubs have thrown at us.

'yeah, look' must be a Melbourne thing.

Jon Wells put him in his place nicely on a couple of things, I thought.

Another strange comment I thought was in the "ground-sharing" segment, where Hemmings said Wigan & Saints fans would never agree to share a ground - I know it won't happen, but personally I'd rather share with Saints than with Latics. Not only would the pitch keep better, we wouldn't be messed about with fixtures, and we could have a standing area.

Very pleased with Finch and Lima, but not so keen on signing Alex Reid...

And how professional would Lenagan spitting his dummy out at a few negative comments look?

He would simply be mocked for it, and his points (although vaild) would be ignored.

The management and the fans know what it happening at Wigan is improving us immeasurably and that is good enough for me.

Let the media say what they want, once we start winning trophies (and we will) I'll not care one iota.

Wiggy's getting worried - superb.

Been impressed with Wells when I've seen him. Hope he gets the Sunday night SSN gig off Offiah.

it struck me as ridiculous that he said this after saying that Wakefield sharing with Cas was the 'obvious thing to do' as if just because they're smaller clubs the rivalry somehow doesn't matter. If I were one of their fans I'd be worried about a ground share yet sharing a ground with Saints wouldn't bother me as long as it was easily accessible for our fans yet the RFL would be likely to attempt to force them to merge knowing them so they can introduce a team from Berlin or whatever. Rivalry and history doesn't matter to them when it comes to small clubs.

I agree, nearly started a topic on it. I never normally watch boots n all, only the tries version, but Wells was a breath of fresh air on it, his analysis was superb, more of a tactics show than anything else, which clubs use which moves etc, thats the sort of stuff that well interests me. That and he brings a balance to the debates.

agreed and Hemmings adds very little other than talking crap. I'd prefer it if they just had the one programme, maybe longer but with a bit of debate rather than two player giving unopposed opinion on two separate programmes. I feel that the job they do on tactics is ok but too limited by the fact they avoid showing any full tries on Boots n All itself. Watched Phil Gould about the Melbourne Storm cap issue and had it happened in this country there's no programme and no presenters at the moment where anyone would take such an issue up with the RFL in such a way.

I don't understand complaints about the negative publicity arising from announcing three major overseas players at the same time as losing a young British player with enormous potential (according to the Sale media release which I know needs to be taken with a pinch of salt). Did Wigan expect to be congratulated for it by anyone?

The image it sends seems very clear, regardless of the actual way Wigan are moving in terms of promoting young players.

Thats the sort of thing Dave Whelan does. IL is more professional.

Ahh, its taken longer than expected, but heres the clueless troll.

So us signing 3 quality NRL players (which obviously improves the quality in SL ala the Matt King, Matt Orford, Brett Kearney, Brent Webb etc etc signings) and releasing at least 3 overseas players (to keep us under the quota of course) is bad for SL and Wigan?

I'm quite sure that Farrell, Tuson, Tomkins x2, Mellor, Howarth, Prescott, O'Carroll, Mossop (7 of those have all played SL this season at Wigan) and any other youngsters you want to name will learn bundles from Finch, Lima and Hoff that will make them better players in the future and thus improve both England and SL in general.

Our side imo next year will look something like:

Roberts (if he stays of course)
Goulding - Wigan lad
Gleeson - Wigan lad
Carmont
Richards
Sam - Wigan lad and England #6
Finch
Fielden - English
Tommy
Coley - English
Joel - Wigan lad and England International
Hoff
Lockers - Wigan lad and England International

Which leaves the following fighting for bench spots:

McIlorum - English (granted he plays for Ireland)
Prescott - Wigan lad
Tuson - English
Farrell - Wigan lad
Mossop - English
Hock - Wigan lad and probable England International
Lima
O'Carroll - English (granted he plays for Ireland)

Add to that:

Vievers
Mellor (if fit)
Howarth
Davies
Tomkins
Walker
Marsh
Charnley

Yes Eddie, you're bang on - we're killing the game. Time to change the rules again.

I'm sure you said the same thing when Leeds signed Danny Buderus, Greg Eastwood and Brett Delaney