As good a talent as Sam IMO

Well that's one way to respond to a worrying rumour. Looks like League Express was on the ball again.

Fantastic news.

Once again, a great commitment shown by Lenagan to get the young, talented players coming through our academy to commit themselves to the club. Such a good sign from the club to see this is the way things are being run.

Well done IL!!!

He's an amazing player!

Glad he's with us until 2014

Yeah good old Express gets it all wrong again.

Very good deal for all.

Really pleased with this. Maurice this time 10 years ago should have been signing Lee Gilmour up long term but let him go. That was a massive error so glad the new regime knows what they are doing.

Bad news for St Helens and other clubs - looks like we are keeping hold of our talent nowadays.

thats great news

can see him becoming a future gb star and a first choice prop for us in the future

Excellent news indeed. Could have a massive future in the game and hopefully that will be realised with Wigan, although i would not begrudge him a spell in the NRL at some point in his career.

I still laugh and shake my head at that one. shocker of a decision by wigan.

Beltin news!! Great prospect

Well we signed Dave Furner instead. Nothing against Furner, he was a great servant in 2 years here but it summed up the short sightedness of the Maurice and Dave era.

Great news , the future is looking good under IL and MM

Thank you Mr Chairman

excellent news! get in. a good boost ready for friday.

Fantastic news. He will be a big part of our team for years to come imo.

Great news, well done IL

Get in there my son! Really happy with that! In 5 years if he has won a few GFs and CC and throw in a WCC I wouldn't begrudge him a move to the NRL.

Nice1 Ian!!!!

Epic! Future England star! Best news to come out of the club since we signed Maguire.

When ever the club make an excellent decision like this it not only makes me smile but I also shudder when thinking about the past decade.

Letting all our senior players leave at once, appointing Milward, being under DW's control, the way we treated Mike Greg, letting the likes of Wild etc leave and the dark days of Wilkes, Jonkers and Moran.

If anyone had [uANY[/u doubts about IL then days like this will shut them up for a long time yet.

IL= The best thing to happen at Wigan since Uncle MO first walked through the door with a dream to build a Wigan dynasty.

yes for the next 5 atleast



Beltin news !!

Fully agree. In his short time IL may not have gotten EVERYTHING right (which he'd probably admit to) but he's certainly 98% there!

Well done to everyone involved, maybe we can finally start to rid the reputation that Wigan allow their talented youngsters in favour of over the hill Aussies.

Made up with this news.

Bought the league express this morning on my way to work and read the rumours about him moving to the NRL. I got in 30mins ago and told my dad the paper reckoned he was destined to leave at the end of the season and both of us were pretty gutted until I went on the internet and read that he'd signed a new 5 year deal.

This lad can be anything he wants to be and further down the track maybe he should go and test himself in he NRL but first he should build a career here and it's great that he's going to do that at Wigan.

Superb.

Only a five year contract?

Bluddy rubbish Wigan - bring back Mo.

You have to ask serious questions about Noble - Mossop wasn't given a chance until he excelled with Huddersfield, and Flanagan wasn't given a chance until he had decided to leave.