It's something I’d like to see in RL as it would improve the junior development at most SL clubs. It should have been brought in with the new licensing agreements as it would have worked well with the whole three year plan model imo.

That being said it still won’t keep all the top young like LMS & Myler at their bottom half of the table clubs. Players like Worrincey & Sheriff maybe would have stayed and it would give clubs like Quins and Salford a lot more leverage to keep hold of their average youngsters but their top young stars will still always move to the top teams for the reasons I posted before.

When you look at the success players like Leuluai & Ellis have had after moving to one of the more established teams you can’t blame them really.

Who's LMS?

If true and the Bulls are courting LMS then we've got to have a try ourselves, the guy hasn't matured as quickly as Burgess or Graham but he will over time become a great player. Everybody knows my feelings on LMS as illustrated in my sig, and if it does come down to us or Bradford getting him both offering the same money I feel that's a battle we'd win"no offence to Bradford".

We have to be in it to win it.

Dont bradford have money from the burgess deal they could use for a tranfer fee ?

Yeah they've supposedly got £100,000 I believe.

Bargin really!

I hope we get LMS, he is doing as well as most experienced props, he will only get better as long as they don't play him too much like the ginger guy.

That what the rumor started from i think. Bradford are a little punch drunk with cash after not having any for a while.

Either way with IL having very close ties with Quins he'll know if Bradford are sniffing around he'll also know

-How much they've offered,
-What he's currently on wages wise

We should in theory be on much stronger negotiating grounds with the previous history IL has with him and the enthusiasm Wane shows.

He's a player we should definatly be looking at when his contract is up at the end of season.

BTW can IL not just offer his quins counter part a transfer fee and then accept it himself and walk away with the dosh? You know Whelan would have done it

You would hope that Lenegan's ties with Quins would be are advantage over Bradford, either way LMS comes out of contract at the end of next year anyway.

The only thing Bradford may have is more cap room and they have a couple of ex Quins players there.

Other than that i really don't know why a player wouldn't pick us over Bradford as we seem better in most areas

Training facilities
Final league standings
Cup runs
Stadia
Players
Juniors
Coaches

If you really had to look at it from and unbiased view point 99% of the time you'd pick Wigan over Bradford imo as we are in a much stronger position.

I'd agree with all of the above"Waiting for irate Bulls fan to turn up".

The only reason that I can see him going to Bradford over us is larger salary and possibly ex-quins player being there, I just hope that if this is more than just a rumour that we actually make a move for him.

All of the above are reasons/suppositions why I'd be surprised if we bid for LMS at all. As IL has interests in both clubs transferring a player from one to the other would probably be seen in a very dim light by the RFL.

Mind you it never stopped the Hethrington's with Hull and Leeds...

Dave

It's neither Wigan's or IL's problem tho imo. If they RFL approved his takeover of Wigan then it's their problem not ours.

At the end of the day we've as much of a right to bid for anyone as say Bradford have.

You and I often sing from the same hymn sheet.

However, on this occasion, we're in different churches!

who is LMS?