Quote: Winslade's Offload "We will never know what the size of the salary gap is, but more concerning is the lack of genuine talent that we could buy ATM. Presumably, that has to be down to the size of the player pool in the UK and hence youth training ?'"
Clubs have never really been in the habit of going out making big British signings in pre-season, usually the majority of new signings would be overseas players. Due to the exchange rate and Salary Cap in Oz, it is making it harder to come across available players, meaning that clubs are holding onto more of their British lads as they don't have the quick fix of an NRL player or two to bolster their squad.
Things are tough in the transfer market, I've no issue with Warrington going down the route of continuing to focus on developing our own squad this year in the absence of World Class players - where we have had an issue is that we have been relatively unlucky with some injuries, plus some of the younger lads have failed to step up and kick on - look at Wigan and the opposite is true and their signings policy in recent years has been similar to ours this year - release plenty and fill the squad from below. It has worked for Wigan, and I am still hopeful that it will work for us, I think some of us just need to have a bit of patience.
In the last few years we have seen Wigan and Leeds have really bad spells and come in for a lot of criticism but then turn it round and take home silverware - we need to focus on getting up to speed for the right games.
Despite a below average start, we are still in an ok league standing, still in the cup and hopefully getting a few players back over the next few weeks.
We'll be reet.
