Good.

If he doesn't come for 2010 then it looks less and less likely to ever happen because he's 29/30 now.

if im honest i have barely seen the NRL this year what with setanta going bust, but i saw him score some cracking tries last season. thats all it was. Looked impressive everytime i saw him. But look at Dobson, cant make it over there but arguably the best half back in the league over here. Grothe in an inferior league would probably shine as there would be no reason for him to lose confidence. The NRL is brutal, and easy to fall out of favour if you lose a bit of form. I would take a punt on him

Why should we be looking to swap Amos? He's been brillant towards the end of the season.

Because he is a aussie, and some Wigan fans are borderline racist when it comes to imports v homegrown "potential".

I'm starting to wonder about this, myself.

Some people are taking his Ainsbough v Roberts thing a little too far. Roberts has flaws in his game, but so does Ainscough. I don't think Ainscough was treated particularly well the way he was just dropped out of all contention, but I doubt he'd have done anything that Roberts hasn't been able to do.

I like the idea of filling the team and club with Wiganers, but some advocates of this system are starting to sound xenophobic.

wouldn't see hes been brilliant. hes performed to an acceptable standard.

i was suggesting a swap involving eric grothe, hardly racist towards imports when grothe himself would be. I just like the player

so why swap him for someone else? give him chance ffs! hes already started improving in 1 season next year he will come back even better.

i hope your right, and no where in my post did i criticise him. I just stated that i prefered another player who isn't wanted by his club based on what ive seen of him.

Moi Moi just scored a fantastic try in the Grand Final, ran it like a second rowers and somehow grounded it.

Moi Moi would be ideal for us. Would bring the best out of Feka so we would have the go forward we need.

Fielden, Prescott, MoiMoi and Feka would be great, the balance between attack and defence would be good too. Use Coley for cover between prop and 2nd row. Then we have a big strong pack with good depth.

Go on Ian

Whats strange is, IL came back from Aus and said no signings because there was no value / players weren't right for Wigan, yet we moved for Long, surely there couldnt be a player "less right"?

We enquired about Long and what his terms would be. On hearing them, we decided not to bother. And Long wasn't best pleased.

So after IL has done his research into due dilligence he tries to sign Gleeson and Long. One successfully and one not!

I would love for the club (in 12 months time) to put a cheeky bid in for Briscoe. He's publily stated on many occasions that he love the chance to play for his hometown club again at some point!
In 12 months time he will have a year left on his contract and Hull KR will be fretting of the possibility of him leaving on a freebie at the end of 2011.
I'm sure they would gladly accept a 100K transfer (ala Gleeson)...!

We could include Pryce, Piggy and Fielden in the deal and take Dobson back as well

Offer £95k cash then...

Bargain if you ask me!

Regardless of if you like Long or not he would have been a good signing for a number of reasons. Not only is he a good player who would have kicked us around the park well but being a local lad he would have settled in almost straight away.

If it was a choice between him and Orford who was the other so called option I'd take Long 9 times out of 10!

Big call that mate picking him over Orford.

IMO Orford is a different class and would make a barrett type impact

Correct

Long showed excactly what he can come up with in 'big' games last night. If we'd have had his experience in our 5 semi's over the past few years we'd have won at least 1 or 2 imo.

He's been shocking for Saints in the main this year and I don't think many of the Saints fans had much confidence in him producing at display like that last night but as a Wigan fan it worried me. He's done it time and again in semi's and final's and especially against Wigan. I said to my dad when he pulled off that tackle on Richards he'd kill us and it turned out that way.

I say all that i'm still not certain i'd have liked us to sign him. As i said before he's been awful this year 95% of the time and the Wigan fans would have had a real struggle taking to him and vice versa especially if his form was poor.

On balance i'm happy we didn't sign him.

Right, if every player in Superleague was out of contract as of now and every player wanted to come to Wigan which players would you sign bearing in mind we only have enough for 1 or 2 world class players or a 3 or 4 average players? Adding to our current squad with Bailey joining the backroom staff for a season.

For me I would take Morley, Brough and if there was anything left Wheeler.

James Graham, Ryan Hall, Kyle Eastmond, Jamie Peacock.