I also attended Saint John Fisher school and I am not too comfortable with accrediting too much to McLeod. The feeder schools into Fisher gave the school a virtual monopoly - Saint Patricks, Saint Marys, Saint Johns, Sacred Heart and some from Saint Williams too. All coming from what was then a really competitive Junior Schools competition. There is actually a case regarding John Fisher as to how many players didn't make it because of too much rugby rather than the opposite. Without going into detail, McLeod was not a particularly popular teacher and certainly in my view not someone to put on a pedestal regarding the production of great rugby league players. I attended during the 70s. We didn't lose in the Wigan and District Schools in all the 5 years I was there and fared well in the Lancashire Shield losing to a team from Leigh. Of all that group of players, Ged Byrne was the only one to make in the professional game. The players from the school who have in more recent times made the grade (post Edwards) have also benefited from the local club scene in Wigan which to me is the real gold mine for rugby players in Wigan.

yeah he didnt play an awful lot after that contract

You're a fool.

1- what's loyalty to the town got to do with anything? Are people now not allowed to leave the town? That's a new one right there!

2- Check our the club's Instagram, there's a stay safe message on there from Fax

What are on about?

Of course people are allow to leave Wigan, but I was only on about players leaving Wigan for Rugby Union in normal playing circumstances, not the present virus crisis.

And you call me a fool!

well yeah you called them disloyal, getting more money than was being offered by RU except Rads, were the ones who came from RU to RL disloyal like Quinell and Inga who both went back? or Just Faz, Ashton and Robinson who all went at different times 2005, 2007 and 2000

I'm not sure if you're a troll on this one? You're exact words



Leaving Wigan RL is somehow being unloyal to the town? What utter claptrap.