Or Evalds.

I will be honest and nearly added his name to the post, but not sure now if his loan for the season means he can't be brought back.

Also if you read some of the posts of people who saw more of him towards the back end of last season in the lower grade, they said he had gone off the boil.

should fit in well then .

I would suspect Harris desperately trying to bolster his mostly injured backline with a player that moves faster than a speeding glacier , with Mullaney - Johnson- Walton all missing and only Meli - Gleeson * williams - decidedly slow . beggars can't be choosers.

1. Locke
2. Johnson
3. Junior Sau
4. Gleeson (Inside Eden to help him in defence)
5. Eden

With the right forwards, structures, attitude and desire its a top 4 back line with out a doubt. Power, strength, knowledge, experience mixed with a hell of a lot of speed.

From a wigan Fan

Given how leaky our defence has been so far this season, it doesn't make sense to put Eden in this squad.

Granted he's pretty good in attack, but I'm not sure he's what we need right now.

A Wigan fan who clearly hasn't seen Gleeson's defence this season.

I keep thinking that Gleeson is a player that might be released as he has been quite shocking at times this season. Eden would offer much more going forward than Gleeson and on this years form is better in defensive for me.

It looks like we are adopting the Kevin Keegan philosophy i.e. If you score 30pts, we'll score 40.

Many are critical on what at this stage of the season looks a very shrewd move.

Harris has seen immediately that we are just far too slow & old for this level and he only has Elastoplast to help him plug the leaks.

I can only believe that the Loan Players - Owen/Evalds etc are there for the season so Iestyn has to look elsewhere.

So far 3 players (If Eden does come in) are younger and quicker than our existing players - even Platty is 3 years younger than Martin Gleeson.

Thus far - I am very impressed with Harris in identifying the problems and trying to improve the squad.

Is he a member in here as he seems to be mirroring what we say!!

If you are then can you move heaven and earth and get Dixon signed up ASAP as when he regains fitness he has the pace that we desperately need.

We need to work heavily on our try scoring as well, then.



I hope you're proven right, but my first thought is that you need to stop sniffing markers.

I'm not convinced that the main attribute we should be looking for in a player right now is pace. Surely someone who can tackle would be a better addition, regardless of whether they're Speedy Gonzalez or not.

& I think that instead of making pathetic snidey comments you should start contributing to a Forum.

I disagree. Our front line defence is actually pretty good, and you don't see us miss that many tackles. The problem is when the defensive line is broken. We just haven't got the pace to cope. Leeds scored three long range tries because they've got the pace to get outside our slow wide defence and then, once through, we've no-one quick enough to get back. It was painful watching Junior S'au trying to chase down breaks by Hardaker and Briscoe, like watching Eric Pickles chasing a pizza delivery bike.

Eden's defence is poor, but if he can at least get back and paw at the breaking opposition player, it might give some of our other defenders time to get back and complete the tackle.