The only way we would sign 2 class props is to off load that £400.000 waste of space.. people have questioned the signings of some of nobles recruits, but at the end of the day we've bought what we could afford under the salary cap....lets not forget were still feeling the effects of the old management team!!!!, people questioned the signing of roberts on the wing when we needed a prop, but with richards playing fullback and mathers going to wire and us recruiting gleeson, it makes perfect sense to me!!!, who is out there for us to sign that has the quality we need to constantly batter that ball up over and over??, and who we can afford without going over the cap??, there are plenty of squad players out there, but its not squad players we need,!!. people look to point the finger at feka and hock and other people who give there all time and time again, the truth is there the only ones who have any passion at our club, and with more recruits like this we would be a considerable force in super league.. personally i would love to take the catalans prop forwards and put them with our backs and second rowers... but we can all dream!!

Ahem, Communist Cap you mean!

I think I have just split my sides.

Do you do childrens parties?

Look at the players in our pack. IMO only 3 of them are big enough/strong enough to do their jobs effectively - Feka, Hock and Lockers.

Joel looks a big lad for his age as well in fairness but needs to grow some more in the next 5 years to be outstanding.

Our others - Bailey, Hansen, Eamon, Preccy and Fielden aren't big enough!

If I was conditioning at Wigan I'd want all of these lot to put some size on. Prescott has the frame to be a massive 18 stoner in the mould of a Jason Ryles but I reckon he's more like 16, he's got the legs of a spider. It might be too late in their careers for Bailey and Fielden so I'd expect them to see out their careers as poor to average players from now.

Eamon I'm not sure but can hardly see him putting too much more weight on and I can't see him at Wigan in 5 years time.

Hansen could put another half stone on for me and still keep the same athleticism.



Edit - Forgot about Coley (which says alot of what you need to know!) who, whilst isn't oustanding, is at least big and has outperformed the other lately.

Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing? You seriously don't think this was planned do you or something that happened despite the fact we have been having poor results?

The problem with recruiting Roberts was he arrived a year early. This meant it wasn't part of the master plan to get him here this year but when he became available early we took him anyway. That filled up the quota and put his wage on the salary cap.

If we had failed to take him early and as a result we didn't get him for 2010 why would that have been a disaster? Phelps, Pryce, Roberts and Gleeson are all recruits ion the 3/4 when we needed a prop.

The only conclusion I can come to is IL and or BN concluded our current props are up to the task despite the fact it's been obvious they have not been since 2007.




Who is available? Anyone for the right transfer fee is my guess. If we can't fit them under the cap then given our obsession with backs that is possible reason and that is down to the new management team, not the old regime.

Dave

That's a different issue, it takes time to build a team in the salary cap era. Spare a thought for Warrington who are going to be rebuilding for 3 years.