A massive 8 overseas players in the Wigan 17. Those overseas player rules are working fabulously I see.

How are teams able to add to their overseas contingent when the rules are supposed to be reducing them? Saints have done the same. Have the rules been relaxed again?

On Gelling it seems he's a decent player. The NZ Warriors fans seem to be of the opinion he's as good as the current NZ international centres and that he should have been in their first grade as at least a backup if not a starting centre.

They all agree that his future is in the backrow and not centre though. But it doesn't look like he's a bad player. He was apparently the standout in the Vulcans Grand Final win and was expected to step up to first grade.

Quite how a player like that attains a work permit is beyond me though. Do those not exist any more? I can remember days when NRL players with 50+ games were denied permits.

he could defecate all over Wigan and no one would notice..... risk free signing in that respect.

Thats something I will actually agree with you on. 8 is too many regardless of what loopholes exist. I would like to see all clubs limited to no more than 4 overseas signings, but you will always find ways to get around it as many Aussies have passports from other European countries.

Poor signing if we are honest. Typical SL to fly a kid half way around the world to 'give him a shot' when there are kids throughout the country busting their s for a shot at SL.

You have to ask why a proud club like Wigan is looking in the NZ reserves grades for kids to mould in to SL centres, are there none in this country? Why not take a punt on Stefan Marsh or Darrell Goulding or Josh Charnley instead of a 21 year old NSW cup player.


Nothing to do with the SC though

We like to refer to that pile as "Leigh" thank you very much.

Been there, done that and bought the T-shirt that says 'NOT GOOD ENOUGH'.

So rather than go out and find a young british centre with the potential to be good enough, you look to the NZ reserve grades?

Well we have just announced the signings of 3 Welsh youngsters including an 18 year old centre. So unless this rumour about Gelling is true than we are looking at and have found a young British centre.

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So with their recruitment presumably complete Wigan have now signed 5 foreign players who are not eligible for the England national team that creates the cap exemptions in the first place.

Can the Wigan fans on here not see that this is going outside of the spirit of the cap exemptions?

Now were being criticised for signing Welsh players?

Chris Flannery played for the Roosters for years.

If he was any good, they wouldn't have sacked him for a prank gone wrong - they would have "rehabilitated" him.

I agree, but we havent actually signed him, like alot of rumours it might be completely untrue.

Because that worked so well for Carney....

at least they tried with Carney i.e. they wanted to keep him, despite numerous indiscretions.

With this lad, it was 1 mistake and out of the door - leading to the assumption that they didnt want to keep him, because he wasnt that good.