We didn't get big gates when he was here, so how will selling him cause a problem?

He was going at the end of the season anyway, because a club with more fans and more money could offer him a better contract and a better chance of winning a trophy. If Salford can make some money by releasing him early, then it sounds like sensible business to me.

A good move commercially. Money to pay the wages as no home game for ages and a fee we would never have had come September.

Get a grip, we're talking about Matty Smith. He's not the messiah, he's an average srum half! Who on earth will we find to kick the ball down the oppositions throat, continually miss tackles and run at the line rarely trying to break it.

There's no way he's even close to having Dunemann's, or even Robinson's, influence.

For me , its not a case of losing a great player , cos I dont think Smith was that great. I just feel angry that we cant seem to keep hold of players and the big teams just seem to take them at will !!. [perhaps sour grapes ]

How can Wigan afford to sign another player if already paying the full salary cap?

Unfortunately it's never going to change unless the club gets some new investment or our crowds increase by about 2,500 - 3000 a match. The easy thing is identifying the problems the extremely hard part will be finding realistic solutions. Could things be done better? I would imagine so but enough to stop us being a feeder club? I don't think so.



Good question. My guess is Salford will continue to pay him and Wigan will reimburse Salford.

Amos Roberts retired earlier in season, we sold Joel Tomkins and didn't bring in a like for like replacement so we had plenty of cap room left.

I reckon Long will dust his boots off for the remainder of the season starting with the Widnes games.

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Yeh right you have plenty of room left under the cap

Quite comfortably as he doesn't have one, rubbish at best!

so we have it in one Wigan can spend more than the cap, so not a level playing field, looking at the Wigan squad there is no way they are not at full cap so Matty will take them further over. The RFL have no balls when it comes to the salary cap, Wigan caught three times cheating combined total loss of points 6, JCWWRL you are in cloud cuckoo land if you think Wigan have any space under the cap, perhaps a couple of players might play for nothing again to get below the cap, or Matty's partner is being employed as a consultant?

Oh and Sean O'loughlin is only 50% on the cap as too will Harrison Hansen next season I believe as players who have 10 year service at a club get half tbeir salary taken off the cap.

The Wigan team that is chock full of Academy players? They might be substantially better than anything Salford run out, but they're not on substantial wages.