Are Wigan not the biggest club in the whole Universe??

Agreed the two are linked you will not make a profit in RL without a winning side - simple - your revenue streams are driven by success on the field - no one wants to entertain serious clients to second class entertainment - winning on the field is everything - the rest will spin off that - sort that out and you will have a successful business - especially that given the salary cap - the marginal cost of winning is zero.

According to Titchy Tinyrod - 9 out of 10 Aussies say their NRL players prefer Wigan to any other Championship winning teams.

thats cos 9/10 of the wigan team are from the NRL

Yes and Wigan boast world class NRL players like...erm...erm...nope, actually pretty much all of their overseas 'stars' are NRL rejects.

for the sake of this argument is Richards Oz or Irish

Richards is very Irish. He only played all his rugby in australia because he was brought up there by mistake.

not necessarily. Take 1 player out of a team and putting him another and his performances could be on another level. Good team management and club mentality have an impact. Fielden for example...

Trent Barrett was contracted to Wigan for this season and where will he be playing on Wednesday night?

Thomas Leuluai (while perhaps not World Class) is a current World Champion.

And Tim Smith was tearing up the NRL before his drink problems. He was hardly a reject because of playing talent.

Thought Lee Smith did a very good Brad Godden impression when carrying the ball up against Quins.

Scrappy kind of charges. Alot stonger then he looks. i know this, but sometimes he surprises me when he bounches off bigger players, re-foots himself and sets off again.

Strong and direct in a similar way to Godden when he needed to drive it up.