IL is living off the Fielden wage if you know what i mean. No big changes once hes gone THEN questions needs to be ask about IL

How much do we think Fielden actually earns. It can't be more than 120k can it?

I'll go 250k plus.

That is a lot. I think our top player is on about 170-180.

Our squad is not the best in the league, and others are under the SC, so I have no doubts we are.

People talk about the big players like Morley, King, Briers, Carvell etc. but then our squad contains a lot of players who surely can't be on massive wages, the likes of Grix, Bridge, Mathers, Riley, Hicks, Clarke, Harrison, Blythe, Cooper etc.

The fact is none of us know people's salaries.

I could sit here and say no way you are under the cap because you have the likes of Richards, Gleeson, Roberts, O'Loughlin, Hock, Smith, Fielden, Feka etc. but in reality, I wouldn't have a clue what they are on.

Fair enough I suppose Gleeson & Rauhihi are on big money and Reardon/Johnson on enough to make way for Atkins/Myler.

If you look at the amount of injuries our squad has had this season then imagine if Mo was still here, instead of having 4/5 solid decent players, he's have paid over the odds for an old aussie, and we'd be struggling with injuries every week.

In the age of the cap you have to set aside a certain amount of money for "Marquee" signings and then use the rest to get decent/good players that will do a good job on a normal wage, but you have to have a decent sized squad to be able to cope with the rigours of this league. Fielden taking up probably more than 1 top class players salary does seriously hamper us with recruitment.

We were very thin as a squad during the last few Mo years and that did lead to sometimes putting out some seriously weakened sides, but we were missing our entire first choice back row a couple of weeks ago and still managed to put one out that was better than most. Granted lots were youngsters from the academy/reserves, but they wouldn't have been there without better cap management.

I'm a big IL supporter, i think the squad overall looks a lot stronger than a few years ago with regards to numbers and home grown players, but we are lacking a top class intimidating metre making prop, all of which Fielden is supposed to be, and with the wage he's on SHOULD BE!

Swap Fielden for Peacock/Morley/Graham we would be up near the top challenging for trophies.

I would be very happy to give Fieldens wage to Graham

I get you there, and you bought him for peanuts from us thenicon_wink.gif

Steve Ella, I get what you are saying although during th decade of sucess you may have had some great battles and some losses but the record speaks for itself. Even the better teams of the day would compete with you for 60 minutes then your fitness and quality would kick in and you would run away with games. Of course you slipped up every now and again but you got back on the wagon and victories continued.

My team had some tremendous battles with yourselves in the 80s and 90s but if you look at the overall results against the other better at the time teams i.e. Leeds and Saints, Widnes and also Halifax I would imagine the stats are heavily in your favour.

As an opposition fan (especially Wire fans) Wigan were the team to beat but it was seldom done unfortunately and your consecutive appearences in Finals and Championships was seen as the game was going stale. We went into games with thr hope we would get one over you but most times it wasn't to be. I was also around during that time an remember the opinions of the Wigan club and unfortunaely to some of us the attitude of certain members of your club has stuck and that is why you still get the reaction from some fans of certain clubs .

Until the introductionof SL then it all changed thankfully. At least the honours are being spread out over the last decade with a number of teams winning the comps. Also we are now competing with Wigan infact have a fairly good record over recent years

Anyway too late for all this my spellings going to pot off to bed no

Good Night