Post subject: Re: So, remind me again, why must we sign..........
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:59 pm
tvoc
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Joined: Mar 05 2003 Posts: 22289
G1 wrote:.....a threequarter from the NRL?
Pat Richards NRL signed Amos Roberts NRL signed Phil Bailey NRL signed George Carmont NRL signed Young lad Ainscough Academy product
Lee Smith Academy product Ryan Hall Academy product Ashley Gibson Academy product Kallum Watkins Academy product Scott Donald NRL sgned
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He doesn't necessarily have to come from the NRL but that would be an option. I hope tonight's game hasn't had too much of a bearing on the healthy debate we're enjoying because that was, by some consideriable distance, the worst Wigan performance at Headingley under Brian Noble. Truly inept at times.
Faced with no credible opposition on the night, Gibson and Watkins did what they had to do which was nothing very much.
Post subject: Re: So, remind me again, why must we sign..........
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:05 am
G1
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tvoc wrote:He doesn't necessarily have to come from the NRL but that would be an option. I hope tonight's game hasn't had too much of a bearing on the healthy debate we're enjoying because that was, by some consideriable distance, the worst Wigan performance at Headingley under Brian Noble. Truly inept at times.
Faced with no credible opposition on the night, Gibson and Watkins did what they had to do which was nothing very much.
You didn;t think I would let tonight's game given the result and the line-ups go without it having any bearing on our discussion?
If this mystery signing we must make doesn;t come from the NRL where will he come from then?
Gibson and Watkins will most likely face their sternest test next week against a Saints threequarter line with at least 3 of their players fro their Academy.
If our forwards, halves and hookers (or stand in hookers) play like they did tonight then you could throw Mal Menninga and Gene Miles at us and it wouldn't matter.
Quote:Every player in our squad could probably earn more money with another club. But they prefer to sacrifice a few extra quid in their back pocket to share special memories. And playing at a place like Old Trafford on a night like this makes it all worthwhile.
It is clear you cannot get sucess just by buying players, you need to develop a decent youth policy and then add the odd high quality import, alone the lines of TS. Think of Brent Webb, Scott Donald and Ali. The super league should not be a home for overpaid poor NRL players. This i understand is one of the complaints about Wigan they are just getting second rate Aussies at the cost of young home grown players.
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Above & Beyond wrote:G1, what was your opinion of McGuire tonight?
Thought he played well. We look much better with him, Burrow and Sinfield all out there.
Quote:Every player in our squad could probably earn more money with another club. But they prefer to sacrifice a few extra quid in their back pocket to share special memories. And playing at a place like Old Trafford on a night like this makes it all worthwhile.
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