With Gale, Sammut, Purtell and Lulia already confirmed for 2012 the next signing should be a impact prop with experience who can lead by example and hopefully the younger players will inherit some of the skills/spirit.



The young forwards coming through (the likes of) Kopczak, Whitehead, Addy, Olbison, Donaldson and Burgess, all necessarily haven't shown the required aggression and fight needed to dominate the opposition and a experienced professional can only help their and the clubs cause.

Agreed. And the 6th and final signing should be...............................................................................Karl Pryce, he has his faults but put him outside a decent Centre (maybe Lulia or Purtell) and he WILL score plenty of tries..IMO

Agreed.

Bring back Worrincy.......

We should have been in for Kaufusi, he is exactly the type of impact player we needed.

Unless of course Sammut has not been given his dispensation. Hopefully someone will bring this up at the forum, but by then I suspect it will be too late.

Who was his centre at Wigan then?

Sammut is non-quota for one year (the length of his contract)

Where's the conformation last time we heard anything the club were checking if he was exempt.

Read today's T&A it says the club don't foresee any trouble in having Sammut as non-quota for the year.

That's the club making it's view of situation public knowledge Mick. Not the same as confirmation. Given it's dragged on for 4 weeks now and it should have been a straightforward yes/no answer, I see two possibilities. First and IMO most likely there's a big argument taking place behind scenes between rfl and bulls. Second option is we got dispensation straight away and have already signed someone but are waiting to announce it to boost pledge campaign. Given our recent history of overseas signings falling through (bird,Seymour) waiting till all details are rubber-stamped would make sense.

Put my Granny outside a decent centre & she would score plenty of tries. And she's been dead 30 years. There's more to a winger than falling over the line. Even a lazy lump of lead like Ah Van will make twice the yardage Pryce will. Nice lad, no heart or ambition.

I'm not too sure, maybe Carmont?



But his record is still good..According to the Wigan website...



2010 - 13 tries in 9 appearances

2011 - 10 tries in 16 appearances



10 starts for Quins - 11 tries

Maybe we should sign your Granny then? as long as we don't go over the salary cap...

She's cheap. Though her agent's fees (Mr T.I. Gertot) are exhorbitant.

I am pretty sure Connor confirm it on twitter a while back...

So in reality it is still ifs buts and maybes.

I agree with your assessment of the situation as it stands, though I can't really see the first of your possibilities being right. [iIf[/i the big argument behind the scenes were to be correct, then that wouldn't make the club's announcement remotely true, it wouldn't even be disingenuous, it would be a downright lie. Now I'm sure the club may find it necessary to be 'economical with the truth' on occasion, but I can't really see any advantage in saying they can see no problem when there is a raging argument going on, so I'm going with possibility 2........I wonder who it is

If it's Hindmarsh then I'm stripping off at Odsal next year.

We need a top quality Loose Forward...........

What's your top quality loose forward type of player.

Somebody in the mould of Brad McKay or Micky Forshaw, trouble is there probably ain't one available! We don't have a ready made one so we just make do with the extra Forward who creates nothing!

No answers, just a wish list....

Hope not Mick if that the case of you stripping off im defo not pledging

Won't be Nathan Hindmarsh, but thats the sort of player we need, a solid grafter, he would be an awesome captain for us.

I'd like to see hard a barsteward at 13. Someone who'd give our half backs time and protection. Another prop would be good, some with some aggression.