Carvell Higham Cooper
Anderson Harrison
Grix

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A halfback combination of Trent Barrett and Darren Lockyer would struggle playing behind that pack.

Wigan have decided against making me an offer. Gutted. Would like to thank all Wigan fans for their support over the last 3 years.

Phelps just tweeted that.

It's the right thing to do. You can't justify a quota spot for a squad player - especially when you have many young talents filtering through from our academy.

All the best to Cameron Phelps.

agree with this mate

good luck to cam though !

Correct. Hope he finds somewhere though, whether over here or back home.

Before this goes any further can Wigan and Wire fans not get in to another d**k measuring contest please?

Fair play to the lad and all the best to him, he would be of benefit to most mid table clubs and certainly would be worth a quota spot, but perhaps not at a team challenging at the top of the table.

He seems a likeable bloke but as others have said it would be crazy to use one of our quota spots on a player who was in real terms very unlikely to get more than a handful of games next year and those games could have been at the expense of young British talent who I have no doubt could do a similar if not better job than Phelps (Marsh/Charnley etc).

All the best to him I predict he will probably return to the second string in Australia, getting the odd game in the NRL here and there, which is a shame but there is no room for sentiment.

With Phelps on his way out and freeing up a quota spot does anyone think the club have an overseas player in mind or will this simply leave them with more options than previously?
I know IL said they'd no one in mind but that was a few weeks ago.
Things change quickly in the off season re transfers so what's the opinion on a further overseas slot available?

shame hes not english..hes a quality squad player IMO but like others have said you cant spend a quota spot on just a squad player.

all the best to him always gave the shirt 100%

Well so far we have released 10 players with the future of at least 1 more still to be announced.

These are:

Phelps
Piggy
Feca
Bailey
Howarth
Vievers
Holland
Jonny Walker
Ainscough
Ian Thornley

Still to be annnounced Pryce.

We have Just 3 new signings to date, those being Finch, Lima and Hoffman.


We can onbly have 25 players on 25 K or more under the salary cap rules.

Our squad so far is:



2. Amos Roberts
3. Martin Gleeson
4. George Carmont
5. Pat Richards
6. Sam Tomkins
7. Thomas Leuluai
8. Stuart Fielden
10. Andy Coley
11. Harrison Hansen
12. Joel Tomkins
13. Sean O'Loughlin
14. Paul Prescott
15. Michael McIlorum
19. Paul Deacon
20. Karl Pryce ?????
21. Eamon O'Carroll
23. Lee Mossop
24. Darrell Goulding
25. Liam Farrell
26. Ben Davies
27. Stefan Marsh
28. Joe Mellor
29. Chris Tuson
31. Josh Charnley

3 new signings Finch, Hoffman and lima making a 27 man squad with pryce included of which 15 are wigan home grown players and a further 2 are wigan lads by birth.

Do we actually need any more players?

I'd like to see one more good overseas signing, giving us strength in depth - preferably in the hooker or in the halves.

I see Orfords requested a release from Bradford, be interesting to see who lines up in the halves next year for Bradford, and more so whether there's any substance to the Pryce or Burrow rumors.

Mark Aston's turned down Harlequins to continue at Sheffield - is there a more loyal player/coach in RL today? He must have been there over 25 years.

I also happen to think he is an excellent coach as well.

Would have loved to see him give Sl a shot to be honest.

Hope its just loyalty and not lack of ambition.

but good luck to him..i still have nightmares about him and the cc IN 98