Know this was a fair few pages back but this was a point that needed making to be fair if our Salary Cap was on par with the NRL's it doesn't mean all the teams need to spend it but it does mean that the teams that can will have the option.
They say its unfair but look at the premier league they've actually had more different champions of the Premier League than we have the Super League and they don't hold back the top teams. PLUS they say that if we were allowed to spend that much then us Wire and Leeds would run away with it every year well no that wouldn't happen look at the PL Man Utd won this year despite Man City and Chelsea having way more money to spend (and having actually spent way more on wages) Arsenal had no money but still managed to beat Chelsea to the title that year and also Everton are penniless in comparison to Liverpool but still finished above them.

If Wigan had the option to spend that much they wouldn't be buying up all the best players theyd just be able to keep their academy players.
Wire wouldn't be buying all the Aussies because they won't all come as they have no real reason to but there would be more coming to this country than are now PLUS we may be able to get players back that have gone. Mossop, Graham, the Burgess bros. etc etc I think we should be doing it.

Its restriction of trade basically.

It isnt a bad thing to be allowed to have that much.

Cue "angry of Wakefield".....

Well you started by saying that the club are talking, and maybe they are, he is their commodity to sell if you want to look at it that way. I would hope that the club is not just looking at the here and now, unlike us fans, and are looking at how things will affect us in the future. Making Sam sit out his contract may not be the best course, if you want him to come back, if indeed he ever does.

From Sam's personal point of view, surely it would be financially better to wait until next year?

I would hazard a guess that any transfer fee required to release him at the end of the year, would drop significantly at the end of 2014.

This would then allow him to ask for a higher contract?

It would also shield him from any Wigan fan nastiness for leaving his contract early.

I would sooner have a lower fee in return for having him stay another year

I could give less of crap about a transfer fee i want our best players to stay at wigan, not be farmed out early

Sam would be in breach of contract if it was his doing as he signed one that specifically stopped him speaking to other clubs at this time. It's obviously 100% correct to say even if Sam did do so, IL has to be complicit in any move away from Wigan and if he has facilitated such a move he can get on the plane with him. The last thing we need is a chairman who gets rid of our best player.

Well, if true..and as being behind Lenegan 100% since he took over, this is very poor..12 more months he had on a no speak contract, we can't buy a replacement..money in the bank for someone??

Gah, can't be d...

Wigan R L official online Happy Clapper, maybe if you could be d to read between the lines you may be slightly more concerned.

Perhaps his Gaffer Dave has told him to get shut, out of spite.

If this is true, not happy with this at all.



Talk about a 'statement of intent' from the club.