Quote: warrior1872 "What really annoys me about a lot of Wigan fans recently is the continuous abuse of IFL,without this person putting in 500k a season we wouldn't even have a club to support,yes i can understand that supporters are frustrated with some of the signings but you have to cut your cloth accordingly,hopefully in the next 18-24 months we can recover as a club and as a sport'"
One thing I was annoyed about with my own reply was that I'd forget to reply to the "some of the more recent signings haven't been of the standard tmexpectrd of a top club like Wigan".
I appreciate there are some risk signings, there always has been, even when the gang of 4 were here.
Now obviously this is aimed at signings like :-
Mitch Clarke
Sammutt
Joe Bullock
Bibby
In fact, other than those 4 I'm not sure which other signings could be described as signings made in the name of cutting your cloth?
Bibby has been a pretty good signing for mine and 2 of the other 3 (Sammutt excluded and injury meant well never know how that would have gone on) just haven't really worked.
Joe Bullock being the most frustrating one whilst Mitch Clarke doesn't seem to be a player Lam wants to pick.
I would certainly say I would have hoped Lam would get more out of these 2 than he has, and ill always wonder what if they'd played for say a Wane.
So on reflection, is that really that bad?
And this is my point
In the same time frame IFL/Rads have brought in
Hardaker
Hastings
French
Burgess (ok, but he was top dollar so deffo not bargain basement shopping)
Field
Singleton (not sure which of the 2 groups to put him in, but he's a tried and tested SL player)
John Bateman
I'm not really sure how that is penny pinching etc certainly under the backdrop of Covid and certainly up until last year being the highest spending club on wages in the country.