which kids would you have kept hold of from the last 5 years? i would have defo kept hold of wild and tickle

Which of our current back rowers would you swap them for?

that wasnt the question

Id swap tickle for bailey in a heart beat!

However i wouldnt have wild any where near the squad!

A complete and utter lack of interest and a heart the size of a pea!

With all this talk of past kids, you have to ask actually how good they were, after all apart from Hargreeves, they didnt go to any teams 'better' than wigan and have hardly gone onto great things.

And i still think O'carroll and Prescott are better than bryn, he just went to a outstanding team. I guess he may point to his honours when he retires but dont think he going to be a great player.

Well you can't have those two back rowers as well as those currently in the squad, can you?

Would you have Tickle and Wild ahead of either Hock, Hansen, Tomkins, O'Loughlin or Bailey?

Tickle's performances in 2006 didn't warrent a contract, so I wouldn't have kept him. Stephen Wild is debatable, although he gained GB selection he didn't produce consistant form and Bryan Fletcher was a better replacement.

Would I take them back? For the expense of Bailey, I'd take Tickle back on current form.

ok then bailey may aswell go play for pats thats if he gets a game and swap him for tickle and me personally would have wild over o`loughlin or hansen

Why people keep referring to Wilde as a kid, I'll never know. He was in his early/mid 20s when he left Wigan.

Aspinwall was the same. Both had had ample opportunity to prove themselves in the first team.

so has sean o`loughlin and still game after game mistakes mistakes mistakes from him

Up till last week he was one of our most consistant players both in the friendlies and the first two games. Had he not performed poorly on Sunday (like the rest of the team) I doubt your comments would have been the same.

It's a matter of opinion about these individuals' abilities, but Wilde was not a kid, and to keep on stubbornly saying that he was is to deliberately distort the truth. It may have been felt that O'Loughlin was young enough to improve his game (and he has, to be fair, gone on to play well for GB on several occasions), but that Wilde wasn't.

For what it's worth, I'd have kept Wilde. It wasn't my choice to release him. But he wasn't a kid.

I'm sure that swapping wild for Hanson ,O'Loughlin would improve or already awesome defence ! .

super league at the moment is about scoring more pts than the team your playing and wild knew were the try line was

But you also have to defend and assist tries too.

Sean O'Loughlin is generally a better all round player than Stephen Wild.

So what your saying is Denis Moran would improve our team in the current super league.

yes swap him with mathers because he is PANTS

Please remember theres a try line at both ends of pitch both as important as each other .

and mathers is SHIT HOT at defending 1 of them lines and come 2 think of it not 2 bad at going over the other 1.come on people have there own opinions on players and i just dont like o`loughlin but plenty lads in the team far worse than him

briscoe at fullback, can't understand why we didn't sign him last year and then signed mathers instead.

Briscoe full back, Wilde centre, Robinson off the bench half back / hooker, Tickle one of 4 props, Brown utility back (Mike Gregory was adamant that he will be an international and that's good enough for me)

Not kids but would have kept Newton and Dobson.

We made an offer for him but he turned it down.

Don't let facts get in the Way Alex of the current sport of Wigan Bashing!

You must be joking right????

With all due respect to Mike Greg, no way would I want Kevin Brown back at Wigan. Wasn't good enough in defence to make a good centre and didn't have the brain to make a good stand off.

Brown was ruined by Millward.

The only 'youngster' I feel bad about letting go is Long.

Wild has made 23 more tackles in two games this year than Hansen has in three. In 2007, he was 5th on the top tacklers list. He also scored 15 tries.