Agreed.

I'd expect Saints to dispense with Mick Potter before they released James Graham.

Would they have the money to release him from his contract ?

There's a position coming up at Wigan

Good point.

prefer Brian Potter ma self

I know the cons aswell as the pro's and I do agree that we should have a good look around before Thackray.

The good things about signing him would be that he wouldn't cost much money and on a short-term deal its win-win aka he plays for an extension and plays bloody well. It also gives us a little more bulk in the pack.

we need to be patient ,no good panicking like we have done in the past and sign average players.the young players will be up for it next season .the experience they have got this season will have been invaluable.ian lenigan has a longer term plan,wigan fans generally are impatient

The young lads will be better and need to play so we can't afford to be goign around signing 3 or 4 average wasters like we've done in the past.

One top quality prop forward is all thats needed as a definate imo.

Despite being under contract for another year, Paul King is allowed to speak to other clubs.

We've been in talks with him before too.

He's 'done' even more so then Fielden.

A hull fan on their board was saying he's in talks with Celtic and they thought even they may be above his current level of ability.

I'd rather stick with what we've got tbh.

Agreed, if we are looking at king and Thakery we may as well not bother, both are shot, King was a fine player but he has totally gone same for Thakery, a couple of good seasons go to there heads and they take the eye off the ball and all too quick they find themselves struggling for form with no realistic chance over ever recapturing former glories.

So would I.

I think it's time we re-adopted an old Wigan attitude wherein "if he's not good enough for them, he's not good enough for us either".

Agreed.

We shouldnt be looking at players deemed not good enough for a team that finished 12th.

A quality prop, yeah. A journeyman SL prop who's best years are behind him, no thanks.

REmind me...who does Fielden play for

Why?

You won't find any Wiganers praising Fielden's spell at the club.

You must have missed my post in reply to the suggestion we should sign Paul King.

Fieldens best is easily behind him but so is Kings and Fieldens best was lightyears ahead of Kings.

If we went for King we're more foolish(or tight) then first feared.

Oi, it wasn't a suggestion.

It was an observation!

TBH, I would keep, Fielden, O'Carroll, Presscott, Feka, Coley or any of our young up and coming props before entertaining bringing in someone like Thackery or King.

Wigan, but he is pathetically bad, whats ur point?

Are we looking for cheerleaders?

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I see what your saying but-

Would you say that about Gilmour is not good enough for us?

If you're saying, Saints didn't take that attitude with Gilmour and it paid off for them, my response would be that we should never have let Gilmour go. I'm pretty sure that Gilmour was a much more promising player then than Thackray and King are now, but for some reason Wigan didn't see it.

Aparently Hull haven't offered Sam Moa a new contract yet. He looked quite promising towards the end of the season.

We shouldn't touch King or Thacks with a barge pole!
King of 3 or 4 years ago yes, not now though!
Thacks, never!