now an announcement has been made on the future of the club is everyone happy.
out maguire,coley,hoffman,deacon and possibly tomkins.
in harris,the lad from hull and possibly gareth thomas.
to me a no brainer.

I'm happier than I thought I'd be.

Glad we've got ISC and Magners on board and very happy Bitcon is saying. Looking forward to our new coaching line up.

I'm not jumping out of my skin about signings though. I think we could aim a lot higher

Im absolutely fuming about JT possibly turning his back on his hometown team like judas, but thats nothing Wigan can control. A very sad day but if they dont want to play for Wigan they can get stuffed as far as im concerned.

Would like to see us sign another prop and DEFINITELY a centre.

If someone offered you that much money I'm sure you'd at the very least consider it.

Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" Interesting video. Suppose he's got the right to be tempted. He could earn a living in a few years of Union. Hope he stays though

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" Interesting video. Suppose he's got the right to be tempted. He could earn a living in a few years of Union. Hope he stays though

With the money for JT, we could actually offer a transfer fee for a quality NRL centre. I'd take Kenny-Dowall certainly, plus as a Kiwi he'll still get rep honours here.

But could we pay him what he could earn in the NRL?

To the OP, was that a question and are you?

I have noticed you have posted similar throughout the last couple of days and i agree with the point i think your trying to make.

Even if we received 1 million from any proposed transfer, in the short term we will still be weaker as the we are bound into a very restrictive system that simply does not allow us to recoup a similar standard of player.

The situation stinks.

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" Good vid! From this you could infer that if JT is thinking about moving to RU, it less about money & more about testing himself on a bigger stage. Lets be honest, he's won the hubcap, GF & CC not a lot left to prove in domestic RL I would be sad to see him go but good luck to him! On the wider subject of are we happy then on the whole I am. Sounds as if SW is going to build a team from within by giving the youngsters a go and [uif[/u he can pull it off, it'll be great

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" Good vid! From this you could infer that if JT is thinking about moving to RU, it less about money & more about testing himself on a bigger stage. Lets be honest, he's won the hubcap, GF & CC not a lot left to prove in domestic RL I would be sad to see him go but good luck to him! On the wider subject of are we happy then on the whole I am. Sounds as if SW is going to build a team from within by giving the youngsters a go and [uif[/u he can pull it off, it'll be great

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" It's not quite a fair comparison, because there's a massive difference between a sporting job and a 'normal' job like you or I do. Realistically, he has a lot of uncertainty about how much he'll be earning past the age of 35 ( if he's lucky ), so the factors he needs to weigh up are different. Not saying he's right or wrong, just that I'd find it pretty hard to get seriously angry with the guy. He's bigger than me anyway

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; its said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" It's not quite a fair comparison, because there's a massive difference between a sporting job and a 'normal' job like you or I do. Realistically, he has a lot of uncertainty about how much he'll be earning past the age of 35 ( if he's lucky ), so the factors he needs to weigh up are different. Not saying he's right or wrong, just that I'd find it pretty hard to get seriously angry with the guy. He's bigger than me anyway

I'll be honest I think trophies may be difficult to come by in the next year or two but we're in an amazing place to really push on. The salary cap raising in Australia is really going to cut back superleague clubs options over here in terms of bringing top NRL players over so teams will do 2 things. One is panic and bring in second raters and the other is bring through their own young players from the u20's side.

We will go down the latter route (Well mainly although Lauaki tests that theory) and thats easily the best way to go. We will probably be followed down that route by clubs like Leeds, Saints and to a lesser extent Wire and thats why i'm positive. We have the best youngsters of those 4 clubs and it will ensure we stay near the top for a long while.

So regardless of what happens with Joel or further down the line Sam i'm confident we're set fair. We're going to see some new young faces next year and I think people will be happy. It may be a bit rocky for a few months but they'll get there.

Great post. Im certain that Wane will be a lot more willing to play youngsters from the academy than Madge ever was, which for me is not only an exciting prospect but would make any future success much more satisfactory

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; [uits said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does [/uicon_smile.gif Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" You assume so. However, if the figures of £70 or £80K that have been bandied about as Joel's salary are true I would suggest that the issue is very firmly on the table for Joel, especially when he watches Amos Roberts put in another performance for the reserves.

Quote ="Kernel"Mate if someone offered me £100K to do a job i love and i know i love, or £300k to do something I might like, somewhere away from my family, I dont think i would. Theres interesting research done on motivation that suggests money is not the key motivator people think it is; [uits said that the biggest factor when regarding money is to take the issue of money off the table which £100k a year or more certainly does [/uicon_smile.gif Link here for interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc'" You assume so. However, if the figures of £70 or £80K that have been bandied about as Joel's salary are true I would suggest that the issue is very firmly on the table for Joel, especially when he watches Amos Roberts put in another performance for the reserves.

The third option is to recruit young RU players. This was mooted by IFL at this weeks press conference and earlier on this season. In fact I believe our chairman is actively seaking some form of salary cap dispensation for signing young RU players from the RFL.

Given that we could potentially be employing a Welsh RU legend and the Welsh National RL coach, it would seem to me IFL has a plan to source and nurture this talent in the South of Wales.

What about players that travel half way around the world to play at wigan for more money?

didnt realise Judas player RL?

I'm assuming he's referring to Garry Connolly. I can't for one minute believe he's referring to Andy Farrell in that tone.

He's played both RL and RU, he's your new Assistant Coach. Known as Judas when he left Wire, the name was resurected by Leeds fans when he went to the dark side.

I would imagine they will all be queueing up at the prospect.

Not a chance of recruiting any half decent ones. If IL thinks there is then he is living in cloud cuckoo land.

Is a bit early to ask is everyone happy. Im happy with the announcements so far. Im not so happy about the rumours though but they arent fact yet so some of them may not happen with a bit of luck. Even if they are true I will give any player who signs for our club my full backing and hopefully everybody does the same.

Whatever happens i will still be there next year enjoying watching us play. Weve still got the core/basis of a very good team and have the best future prospects coming through so the futures bright imo.

Not happy. Can't remember the time that I have been as depressed about the future of RL as I am now.

The sad thing is I knew it was coming. That said, still doesn't make me feel any better.

I guess it has had 100 years as a first rate sport. Maybe that was always it's destiny.

So not only do we have a player that's going to wind-up the Dire and Whino fans (well until he decides to join his brother), we have someone on the coaching staff as well. Happy days.

We'll probably attract those players who are struggling in RU because they don't have the required body shape. I certainly won't be complaining if we uncover a James Graham of our own, which there's every reasonable chance of, seeing as someone of his shape isn't suited to RU in the slightest.

I'd agree the threequarters would be very difficult to poach. But then again you never know. Those two twins at Warrington chose RL over RU because they enjoyed the game more. There's nothing to say that can't and won't happen again.