http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 139968.stm Quote:The former Kiwi international and Brisbane Broncos star could find himself lining up alongside Bradford's Sam Burgess. The England international has attracted the interest of a number of Australian clubs. good for england if he goes to the NRL but IF hes available we should pull out all the stops to get him

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 139968.stm Quote:The former Kiwi international and Brisbane Broncos star could find himself lining up alongside Bradford's Sam Burgess. The England international has attracted the interest of a number of Australian clubs. good for england if he goes to the NRL but IF hes available we should pull out all the stops to get him

Another massively overrated player is Burgess.

It's very much a case of "if" he's interested too. I'm sure any player in the Wigan side would love to play in the NRL, if Saints came in with an offer equal or greater than his current contract I doubt he'd go.

The key IMO to such deals is where he'll be playing his rugby - continuing in SL he might as well stay at Bradford unless we start signing some real top quality stars and forking out transfer fees (which at the min despite the signing of Gleeson we aren't).

He's better than any of your props.

What?

Don't under estimate those figures now.



I do know that one player who was reported to be earning as much as £70k at one time was at the time only earning £35k.

Added to the fact that if King is on over £200k, and Morley is rumoured to be on well over £200k, and Monaghan and Hicks wouldn't have come over for much less than £150k being Australian, that doesn't leave a lot for the rest of the squad...

Matt King was not on £200k. In fact, he isnt on much more than Barrett was. However, Barrett gave much more value for money

If you're saying that Matt King is on more than Trent Barrett was on, then that's all we need to know. It also explains why Wigan decided not to bother once Warrington had bid up to and beyond that staggering figure.

Baz by all accounts was on over 200k, if not for the first year, certainly for the second and third year which sadly never happened.

He was well worth it as well. If we would of had better players around Barrett for those 2 seasons we would of lifted trophies in both seasons. It was a shame he had to carry the team at times and although it was great to see it would of also been good to see him playing around better players working with him better.