Quote Paul Youane="Paul Youane"Gone are the days of cheating the salary cap now your using 20 players.
More my money Wigan based upon a fit squad at the start of the season could well have been:
1. Phelps (overseas)
2. Richards (overseas)
3. Gleeson (conned into buying)
4. Carmont (overseas)
5. Roberts (overseas)
6. Tomkins (academy)
7. Leluai (overseas)
8. Fielden (purchased)
9. Riddell (overseas)
10. Coley (recruited)
11. Bailey (overseas)
12. Tomkins (academy)
13. O’Loughlin (academy)
14. Pa’alensena (overseas)
15. Deacon (recruited)
16. Prescott (academy)
17. Hansen (academy)
So that’s 5 academy players and 8 over-seas players. It’s all well and good saying we have played 14 or whatever academy players but to me that says that some of the recruitment at Wigan needs a closer looking at. Having over-seas players in the u20’s is a joke and a waste of salary cap.'"
Feka can't get a game with Coley and O'Carrol missing. Phelps will probably play this weekend but he's been looked over most of the season. Deacon will probably be replaced by McIllorum when he's fit again. The Bailey issue is a contentious one. Mossop may get a game before him now and Farrell is also pushing him now.
Your last comment regarding overseas players playing for reserves: It's a squad that our coach has inherited. Next year is the time to judge this regimes recruitment.
