I'll go along with the signing for now. If he doesn't cost owt, he might do a job for us, a la Ben Cross. He's a model professional and will bring extra media exposure for us, our players and the game, something the RFL seem incapable of doing on their own.

Sinfield made his first team debut aged 16, and had already been at the club for about 3 years before then. He is an Oldham lad though.

Ta.

Who do we have that is better in the Academy and ready for first team action?


Can you see no benefit from our new policy in relation to targeting union players to recruiting one of there legends?

Can you see no commercial opportunity that our business can benefit from?

I can't believe the knicker pi$$ing that has gone on over this. Talk of him "pushing out our younger players". Well if he is good enough to do that, are those youngsters good enough to be at the club!! Get real people. This not a serious signing from a playing point of view, its business.

Shrewd signing from a publicity point of view and there is no such thing as bad publicity. I think he will hardly play. Maybe he will increase our profile with non Rugby fans and fans in other geographical areas, and he will not cost us much money, or a quota space.

Perhaps it will help us get rid of any unsold "pink" shirts that you all hated.

I must confess I have only watched him in Union matches where he always looked solid. Is he, therefore, any decent in League?

Struggled at first but got to grips with it now and is a reasonable player, certainly can offer anything Marsh or Goulding can as cover.

Good post i agree 100%

Agree with this. Plus he can play in the 2nd row. He is a big guy.

Agree also with your earlier post. But it was far too sensible for the knee-jerk posters on here that allow themselves to be whipped up into a frenzy by visitors from other boards who find many Wigan fans easy to wind-up. These are the same people that were posting a few years ago to the effect that Lockers was rubbish/a rubbish captain or that Sam would never amount to much etc. It never ceases to amaze me how negative some Wigan fans can be.

I find it totally embarrassing.

It makes me wonder if the things people say about Wigan fans - namely that we're cocky, arrogant and stupid - is true in more cases than not.

Here we are, Champions and Challenge Cup winners, and yet one week later people are making the most pathetic, hysterical fuss out of absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero.

Even [iThe Sun[/i has said that Thomas won't be signing as a first-grade player - he's not even 'signing' in the true sense of the word, as he's registering for nothing - and yet people are still going on as if he's being presented to us as our great hope for the future.

Some people need to get a grip in a big way.