I don't think the money is a problem at all. I think we have plenty and the £100K, of course, won't count on Salary Cap. I'd have preferred Miller ... as he'd be a longer term option but Wakefield would obviously not let go. We might get him one day. He's good and a real running half back.

I just don't get why anyone has to be signed. I get that we need a bit of cover at the start of the season so why not just bring someone in on loan? Ryan Brierley on loan would have got me more excited than Kevin Brown signed up on a full contract.

The question "The half back solution" should never be answered by the suggestion of Kevin Brown at £100k plus wages. An absolutely appallingly bad business decision if it goes ahead.

Did we not sign the most promising new half back from Leeds?

Cor there's a scoop. I never realised Ryan Brierley was available on loan and then you could send him back when not required. We missed out on that one. What else don't we know?

Brad Dwyer too, no?

If you're so confident then how about this.

If George Williams signs for Wire before 1st Jan 2018 I'll donate £50 to your nominated charity.
If George Williams doesn't sign for Wire before 1st Jan 2018 you donate £50 to Joining Jack.

I'll post this on the Wigan board as well so that you don't miss it.

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£50 ... The last of the big spenders. I didn't know things were that bad up north.
If I was a betting man I would have made it £500.

I'm not a betting man (I'm a poor pensioner ) , but I thought this was worth it for charity, particularly Joining Jack.

Ha ha. Good job nobody challenged you £50 to explain why Chris Bridge should have been sent off. Could also challenged you about saying Warrington would go bust on the back of image rights tax ruling or Warrington not being in a position to compete for at least five years because our team was so old with Morley, Monaghan etc.

At the end of the day Rubber Duck posts on here plenty of rumours he hears and to be fair he has a strike rate a lot better than a broken clock. Whether the Brown signing not happening and Williams signing ahead of November 2017 pre-season was his finest moment is very debatable.

You can be pretty sure that Warrington's interest in Williams will have forced the strained finances at the Dave Whelan Stadium to stretch that little bit more than they wanted to.

That's my post of the year by some margin.

Williams leaving Wigan may or may not happen. It certainly won't happen before the end of this coming season.

However, what is certain and undeniable is that Wigan can only have one marquee player and that, at present is NOT Williams. So it IS likely that he will be off somewhere else for 2018 - whether this is Warrington or Leeds or whoever is irrelevant.

And it is this likelihood that makes Wigan fans nervous and defensive. And we would be just the same if it was Currie or similar.

So maybe we can give all the betting talk a rest now.

That's right. It's a failure as we failed to achieve the objective which was to win it. Quite simple really. I saw on one of the Warrington facebook posts that some chap thought this was a "brilliant" season. I think Leeds' 2015 could be described as that, not Wires' 2016.

However, I have not forgotten the past where we would have only dreamt of Wire competing at the level they are currently. We have become a member of the big 4.

Yes really. If we don't win the GF it is outright failure, that is what it is all about.

And how anyone can compare the club to the one from the pre-HJ/ SJM days is beyond me. We are one of the most highly resourced clubs in the game.'"

It's not a failure but to hit only one of the objectives and probably 3Rd choice one at that it's hardly a successful season either.

I'd say it's a season where we arguably underachieved given the side we had. And a team who ground out wins under the adversity of injured players going into most games with 3/4 first team players missing won the grand final!! Not sure if people knew bout the Wigan injuries!!

I hope brown can be that somthing that we lack in tight games where we need an edge in the last 10m area. Not sure I see where the contract length puts the Williams signing for 2018 now tho and where this puts Patton for 2018/9