It was also mentioned last night that Paul Prescott had signed a new contract. (or did I imagine it)

Nope, you didn't!

3 years (And Welldeserved IMO!).

Yes Brian, IL said Prescott has signed a three year deal.
McIlorum has also re-signed on, I think, a two year deal which IL didn't mention.
He covered most of the others.

I just feel the club is better managed now than at any time I've been watching the team.
The turn round in the club's finances is remarkable.
DW's last year as owner the losses were £720k, last year a profit of £108k. That's done in only three year's ownership by IL.

Silverware in the trophy cabinet and the club making a profit!
That doesn't happen too often in sport.
Well done IL and all the management team.
Brilliant!

100% agree i have never felt as confident about our clubs future as i do under IL. He has the perfect balance of being a business man and a fan.

Didn't that change recently? I'm sure it changed to 8 years service = 50% counted to the cap and 10 years service = 0% counted towards the cap.

Does the rule only apply to one player per club. For instance what if you had 2 or 3 players at a club who all have had 10years or more service will it be 3 x £50k off the cap?

Just the one player.

The complaint was to the effect that it's usually too loud and you can't tell what they're saying half the time - quality of the sound system was the problem.

It's better than IL's microphone was at times last night.

Great news that, well done IL ans Wigan.

Not only that, IL stated that Wigan's backroom staff have trebled in that time too.

The figures show what an absolute shambles the previous regime were making with their mismanagement both on and off the pitch.

It does make you wonder just how much some of our highest paid players were actually on.

It may also have been how Whelan used the different revenue streams to be more tax efficient.

I think things were going through different companies at the time so we just hit the £2.5m to allow us to pay up to the full cap. However the whole, merchandising, sponsorship, coaching set-up etc were so far behind the times it makes you wonder how Whelan and Mo could be successful businessmen outside of the club.

Well they're trying to raise money for the academy, as I've just had a call on the club's behalf trying to get me to rejoin the Lotto scheme. The conversation was along the lines of being worried about Dires youth academy.

Look at the bloody size!! Cant wait to see him ripping it up in pink and white

good grief...he's been eating more weetabix than Feka (hope no one enquired about breakfast portions this time

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does look as though hes got bigger, cant wait to see him play again and if hes anywhere near what he used to be then can see him been in the england team at end of season was a world class player hopefully still is

He's not. It's the cameraman who's got smaller.

Bradford sacked Ryan Hudson and look what happened to him.

Says it all

Good point, however at the end of the day we havent sacked hock, we've put faith in him and some people are just going to have to get over it.

Hocks severed his punishment for his crime.
Personally I'm all for moving on and looking forward to him smashing up the SL once he once again finds his feet in the SL.

At the end of the day Hock served the time for what he did and Gleeson and Long, In my opinion and RL wise did worse.
That could be considered match fixing where as cocaine, though absolutely idiotic, does nothing to help his performance and so betting is probably worse than that. I cant remember but i think it may have been considered "insider knowledge" which is, again, illegal.

There is another thread about a palyer betting against his own team and one pf the poster quotes the rule/regs regarding betting