Really mate?If you did not have a game i would love to see some of your wigan fans at stobart stadium.I am looking to go to a few wigan games aswell this year.

Any Wigan fans seen much of Farrell and Gerrard? Wondered who you thought was the better player at this time in each of their careers?

Farrell by a mile.
Gerrard is a great passer of a ball, but not quick enough for the backs and not big enough for the forwards.
Farrell is a superb back row forward, strong, fast and tackles well. If I was rating your three signings it would be 1 Farrell, 2 Davies and 3 Ainscough, that's how lucky you are.

Can anybody explain how dual contracts work?

Alex, my interpretation.
The dual registered player will in general train with both his Superleague and Championship clubs on an agreed percentage basis. e.g. (60% at Wigan 40% at Widnes)

The superleague Club can recall the player up to 48 hours before their game (that's when the squads have to be announced), but I think that this can only happen after the first month of the loan.

It's a win win situation really.
And the players cannot play for both teams in the Challenge Cup.

How its been explained to me in simple terms

The player trains with his main contracted club and if he is not selected in the squad for the next game he goes to the other club

How does it work financially?

Good deal, makes sense for the clubs and the players.

So what happens after that?

Dave

A dual reg player does not have to spend the first month at the new club as loan players do. He can be recalled week by week from day one.

Wigan want another club this side of the pennines in SL and these lads will strengthen Widnes. Wigan get their lads in a better standard league than U20s and Widnes are a better team to go for trophies which they could well need prior to the next round of licences.

Sorry, I didn't explain it well.
It's a season long dual registration
I believe that in the first month the players CANNOT be recalled, but after that they can up to 48 hours before the Superleage clubs match.
If Wigan then don't need the player for the next game, he returns to Widnes, but again may be recalled up to 48 hours prior to Wigan game.

I hope that clears it up a little.
It appears from Teds post above that my understanding of the initial one month perion may be wrong, apologies.

rlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/wigan/8500043.stmrl

Link on BBC website - as IL says the players concerned, if they had stayed with Wigan, could end up not playing a competitive game until late March, another factor in this arrangement. Seems very sensible to me - especially for Farrell and Davis (perhaps he will learn a thing or two from Terry O'c).

good to see our feeder club is still supplying us with quality young players, if they have as much impact at widnes that ben kavannagh has had then this will be brilliant.

Thanks very much to Wigan for this and to your chairman for his kind words, all will be of benefit to Widnes massively.

Rogues, it's only the players that go on "Loan" that can't be recalled for the 1st month, after the initial 1st month they can be recalled with 48hrs notice.

Not sure how any of this works financially though< One for DaveO?