10/10 for the interview...exactly what we need to raise the profile...more please.

Doesn't their salary cap go up massively next year?

I think he's going to NZ in any case.

He will go to NZ because he will be part of a Wigan package that includes Shaun Wane and Thomas Leuluai. Dreary Wigan/England weather is guaranteed most of the year, unlike sunny days in Australia. So he will feel most at home in Auckland.

Great package for Wigan.

They lose 2 of their best players and their coach and get what in return?

No way?

Souths have a few big contract players ooc, the most note able Asotasi.

What does Wigan get in return? Wigan gets to taste the inevitable consequences of success.

Life wasn't meant to be easy. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Charitable satisfaction.

EDIT: By the way, Jean, nice thread over at LU

You've wrote some on here, but that......

Have you noticed the ethnic composition of South Sydney Rabbitohs player roster? It is almost exactly the composition that Crowe was denouncing/ridiculing at NZ Warriors back in 2002, when he got into the fight with Eric Watson. Caucasians are a minority in the Rabbitohs top 17.

It seems like Russell Crowe is now trying to make up for his past racist outburst.

I think Souths have always had indigenous players on their roster including stars such as Eric Simms, Eric Robinson, Kevin Longbottom and, more recently, Nathan Merritt and Greg Inglis. Their traditional heartland covers the once typically working-class suburb of Sydney known as Redfearn. Throughout its history the club has selected young Aboriginal players from both the South Sydney district and regional New South Wales. The link to the Aboriginal community of the district goes back to the formation of the Redfern All Blacks Football Club in 1930.

You are right about South Sydney and its ethnic heartland. But it's not just indigenous Australians like Inglis and Merritt whom he has signed in significant numbers. He has gone out of his way to sign Polynesians like Isaac Luke, Roy Asotasi, Ben T'eo, John Sutton, and Jeff Lima -- they are the ethnic group whom he was labeling as the "darkies" and "coconuts" at NZ Warriors back in 2002.

I might add that he also has one Asian-Australian, Andrew Everingham (half Filipino) in the first team. The team roster is a real ethnic mix that you would not have expected in the light of his 2002 rant.