The average RL wage is around 65K.

We offered Solomona a big contract when he was at Wakefield and he was one of Bradfords top earners.

Surely he must be on a six figure contract. Could be wrong.

I,m including Gleeson and Reardon in that.
Out= Reardon
Gleeson
Johnson
Rauhihi
Penny & Pickersgill on loan, maybe even out altogather
In= Atkins
Myler
Solomona
I'm pretty sure that evens things up.

I think if you look at Gleeson and Reardon leaving with only Mathers coming in, I bet they got 100k+ space on the cap from that.

It'd be nice if we could really stuff Salford and manage to prize Ratchford away from them, that would be the partner for Tomkins if I had my way.

Dobson for me, but Ratchford wouldn't be far behind.

Don't think Salford would let both there young halves leave in the same season though, and I just can't see Lenegan paying stupid money like Wire have for Myler. Fair play if they can do it, I just don't feel like lenegan has to.

Clarke and higham will fight it out for the bench hooker spot, 5 fighting for 4 places.

Sure i read somewhere they were considering Clarke at LF, not sure how that'd work though!

True Salford wouldn't let both leave in the same season but you never know about the future, if Ratchford wants to win something then he'll have to leave Salford at some point plus he's a Wigan lad I believe so that might count.

Wire are obviously going on some what of a spending spree, yet if you look at are squad list the number of player we will have leaving at the end of 2010 will mean we may be in a similar position to wire in 12 months time with plenty of money to spend.

I haven't a clue how we will line up next season, its a nice problem for Tony Smith to have.

With a much better base of young local players already though. After next year the team will be built around:

Paul Prescott
Mike McIllorum
Ben Davies - hopefully
Lee Mossop
Joel Tomkins
Harrison Hansen
Sean O'Loughlin
Liam Farrell
Sam Tomkins

For many years to come hopefully. Possibly with Hock to come back we could potentiallly be looking at 9 academy produced first teamers.

We could have one hell of a team if most of our young players reach potential with a mix of overseas players and Coley type players, we will be in a great position to be on top of the game for a few years.

Its what some on here keep saying, but not many are listening.... How much space will this lot give us under the cap? and how many will we need to bring in from outside?. Also could make us a club that needs to sell good players for good money...

Ultimately not much. While they are establishing themselves in the side they won't command a big wage obviously but if some of them reach the potential people think they have Wigan will have to pay the going rate to keep them. In fact they may not be able to keep all of them and stay under the cap which is of course what the cap is all about, spreading the talent across the teams with no club being able to hog all the best players.

Dave