To be fair Richards has struggled with his pace since graham danced on his Achilles in the 2010 grand final. Maybe a couple weeks off will do him some good. As for gelling he looked good yesterday and showed good footwork. Worth remembering though that he's only ever played a handful of first team games and shouldn't be rushed as he's about as experienced as jack Hughes when it comes to the first team. Hopefully he'll play a few more games this year with him stepping into carmonts position when he leaves this year

The amount of young players at the club with huge talent for the here and now as well as potential to improve out of sight in the future is scary. We have the established lads like Sam Tomkins, Charnley, Farrell, Mossop, McIlorum and Tuson and then guys like Gelling, Dudson, Hughes, Logan Tomkins, Powell, Spencer, Russell, King and more at the back.

Add in guys with a minimum of 4 or 5 years in them like Lockers, Hansen, Hock, Prescott, Goulding etc and the squad is set up now for years. We just need to keep investing wisely in available English and overseas talent and the club will stay around the top.

Ian Lenagan is certainly the right man to have stearing this club as he'll ensure it stays on the right track.

It seems such a long time ago when IL held his first fans forum at The Deanery High School and stated that bringing the youth through was the future for Wigan RL rather than the usual quick fix expensive imports.

Yeah mate I was there and it doesn't seem like 2 minutes back.

The first signings we're Mathers, Pryce and Carmont weren't they? One out of three aint bad!

He's had an exceptional spell in charge of the club and he's been the sole reason for us being where we are more so then Maguire, Tomkins, Lockers, Wane etc etc.

I think you are exaggerating a bit. While IL certainly brought Madge here, it was Madge who changed the entire ethos of the club from the playing point of view. A club can bring through as many players as it likes form the junior ranks and it can also sign top class players from outside but if the first team coach isn't up to it then they will be wasted. As Barrett was under Noble and Sam nearly was.

No Lenagan no Maguire is the point i'm getting at and in turn probably no Wane or Bitcom or Rads and possibly no Sam because I doubt he would have hung around as long at a club drifting nowhere as we were before Lenagan came in.

Without any doubt the most important man to come in to the club in 20 plus years imo.