What does he think about the wages of the players who are not at the top?

I reckon if we doubled the salary cap and so could pay several to players £250K salaries and players like Charnley and Farrell who are first team regulars but not in that bracket £100K that would be about right and far removed from the obscene salaries of soccer. I also reckon the like of those two are probably on pretty low wages anyway. Never mind Rio I bet the Wigan Athletic players earn more in a month than they do for a season.

I have always argued ever since the sport went full time across the board you have to be prepared to pay for it. I don't think RL does and I reckon we get the sport on the cheap.

Totally agree, Dave. But the majority of us seem to have been brainwashed - mainly by the Yorkshire Mafia in my opinion - into thinking that getting this level of entertainment for very little is some kind of entitlement, and that players who expect more and clubs who would pay more if they were allowed to, have committed a form of heresy.

It's not just the Yorkshire Mafia. I have been shocked in the past that several Saints fans have adopted the attitude that if players aren't happy to play for relative peanuts they can leave and we as a sport can replace them no bother. Absolutely no consideration that it is wrong in principle to get away with paying wages like this in the first place. The fans in question rarely post on here any more thank God.

It is not a salary cap argument either. If we have to have a cap fine but the idea it's right to be paying pro sportsman as little as we have to do is not on. It wouldn't surprise me if some of our more junior players who get regular first team games will be claiming tax credits given their salaries.

Ferdinand is no fool. He knows top athletes when he sees them. He clearly has a lot of respect for our players as we need to be just as fit as footballers while taking all the impact that rugby players need to. Rio must be wondering how rugby players do it.

Publicise RL or just arrogant Wigan?

Someone is a little upset that Wigan are dominating aren't they??

Have you never heard the [uold[/u maxim "When Wigan RL prospers, rugby league prospers."?

Presumably Rooney, for some strange reason a Leeds fan, is silent this weekend.

To quote and amend your avatar...

Warrington. Where all the jobs and money is in the North West..... But sadly, not the class.

lol, yeah I retweeted Andi Peters. Also spotted a couple of tweets asking what slleewig meant and wondering why it was trending.

Is he? Serous question, because he was on the field with Wigan after the Grand Final win in 2010.

Andi Peters is Sam's Manager.