Quote Wigan Peer="Wigan Peer"We may well do, but this season could well be a last hurrah for this current Wire set up.'"
I wonder about Wire and their future after the next year or two. I admire them as a team and them being a strong side is good for the game but their strategy of buying cracking players over the past 5 years will now probably have to change. If you think that they signed guys like Hodgson, Monaghan x 2, Morley, Carvell etc in that time and all will probably be gone sooner rather then later how do they replace them? Guys like Hodgson and Micky Monaghan aren't coming over here anymore from Oz and none of the British lads look like rushing back either.
Their youth set up is the saving grace for them but to ask a kid to step in to a Morley or a hodgsons shoes is a tough ask. We've obviously got our own issues to deal with as well but our youngsters are probably a couple of further years on. I went to an u20's GF a couple of years back between the sides and from our side you see lads like Hughes, Crosby, Logan Tomkins, Sam Powell etc playing on a regular basis. Wire had a cracking side that year yet I don't think any of them are getting a regular game now apart from Currie (if he was playing, guess he was).
In a funny way us having a good few injuries may help us long term.