What colour is your straw?

I am pretty sure IL has looked at many players but is not willing to pay the money. IL needs to pull another Gleeson out of the hat. LMS should be signed for next season at least. Ben Davies should be brought into the first team.

Which is always going to be a problem from here on in.

Personally i think IL is doing the right thing, so what if we have to have a year of no new signings, look at the signings this year they have hardly set the team alight, maybe with a settled team we will start to win things. With reguards to the prop situation we have him already at the club in Mossop, he's already hitting super league at a pace so imagine him in 2011 with 1 and a half years experience under his belt? By 2012, Hock will be back, we will have got rid of Fielden and have a decent prop to play along side Mossop and we could be looking at a team of:



Phelps

Roberts

Gleeson

Goulding

Richards

Sam

New 7

New 8

Leuluai

Mossop

Hock

Joel

O'Loughlin



Feka

Prescott

McIlorum

Farrell



With players like Farrell, McIlorum, Prescott, Joel, Mossop, Sam, Goulding, Phelps all getting better as they get more experience and still being young we could really be looking at a dominant team for the next couple of years. (if we manage to get the right coach)

Roll on 2012 then. I bet you all can't waiit.

Going off todays showing i'd be reasonably happy if the Griffin rumours were true, not seen much of him before to be completely honest.

If hes good enough for Huddersfield playing like this he's definanetly good enough for us.

He would be an improvement on any of our props IMO.

Griffin was superb today there best prop and really laid the platform at the beginning of the match, I'd be surprised if they let him go.

That is about the most sensilbe thing I have read on here for a while. For me we need a prop and thats about it. Stop the changing of the squad, have faith in our youth and we will not be a million miles away. Adding more than 2 new faces a year no matter how good they are causes too much disruption and gets us no where.

Trouble is a lot on here have the Uncle Mo way of thinking quick fix. Thank God I.L. has his head screwed on right and is one that plans ahead. It takes time to turn things round and we are going in the right direction now lets just keep it up.

He looked a good player yesterday and is a decent player overall. He's a similar quality to Prescott and Coley, better then the level Fielden is currently at and better then Feka(although if Feka got fit he'd be light years ahead of Griffin).



I'd take him in an instant with the way things are in that department at present.

Yeppers. The reduction of imports will see us rise again. We will produce the youngsters as we always have, but we will not have to either be creative with the cap, or complete with others who are more creative. When other, smaller, wannabe club, get the level playing field they want, thay are the ones who will be found lacking. I would like to see the cap raised for clubs who do have the money, its not their "fault" they raise more, the others should get their act together.



Althougth we all want greater success, we would be odd if we did not, i can see us rising very quickly from the total mess of 2006....

It's very interesting that Griffin has been cited by a number of Wigan fans as the sort of 'poor quality signing' that has bedevilled us for several years now.



This is a mindset that we simply have to change.



It's a form of petulant arrogance that led one particular Wigan fan, who no longer posts on here, to make repeated statements to the effect that only the very best in the world were good enough for Wigan.



Sure, it's desirable to have players like that - but these days you're only going to get them now and then. The past is gone; that era will never return as long as there's a salary cap.



Meanwhile, we SHOULD be looking at players like Griffin, who are performing very well in a team that is way better than us.

The SC means that players like Coley, Phelps, Griffin and any young player who has come through your academy can be just as valuable as an expensive overseas player.

Friday showed that Coley and Prescott aren't the problems with our front row. They've both stepped up this year and are easily good enough to get on longer contracts.



The problems always come when Fielden and Feka come on, this coupled with the lack of a specialist hooker on the bench. I think Riddell not being on the pitch also has a much larger impact than most people notice, and when he's not there just blame it on fielden and feka. Saying that, they were both cr ap on saturday.

I do feel that if McIlorum had been fit for the Semi we would have done better, when Riddell was off, we were effectively rudderless, I couldn't tell who was meant to be acting as Stand Off (O'Loughlin or Flanagan I think). The multiple shifts we've had to do has affected the team quite a bit.

Reading todays league express and weekly it looks like bailey will be getting a new deal and it was saying there might not be any more new signings.

Also mentioned that you went after Karmichael hunt but he wanted £480,000 and il wasn't prepared to pay that.

No f**king wonder



A quarter of the cap on 1 player. Dont make me laugh

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 193892.stm He would want a shed load of cash

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 193892.stm He would want a shed load of cash

And with a criminal record dangling ominously over him, we could offer him all the cash in the world without a hope of ever having to pay a penny.

We need a Prop, if we resign Bailey and are unable to sign a Prop we may as well get set for another season of disappointment, our only hope if we do bring in a new coach is he can get some life back into Fielden.

I have no problem with Lenagan saying we'll stick with the same squad because theres nobody out there of the right quality if thats actually the case.



If it turns out that teams over here sign good props from down under(or here for that matter) and we miss out on them because we weren't prepared to pay the wages then i really worry for the future.



Alot of people have said that Lenagan has been here for a couple of seasons now and from the day he came here it was obvious we were lacking in the front row and still nothings been done about it.



Thats got to change.