They train with Wigan’s first team through the week though don’t they,no doubt Goulding will pop along and have a look see too as well I’d presume

I'm 99% sure Lam has said this season that you can't really judge anything off performances in the Championship and it's more about keeping them match fit. Having said that, I know at least one League 1 team has software that allows them to clip together one player's contributions so that you could basically watch their entire performance in a short period, so wouldn't be surprised if they did that with the loanees.

I'm not offering anything, perceived wisdom or anything else.
I know they train at Wigan but all I was wondering was does anyone from the coaching staff watch loaned out players play?

I know you watch, or used to watch, a lot of the youth games so was just wondering if this was something that was being mentioned. Glad to hear it's not and I'm sure, as Grimmy says, that something will be in place.

Wigan come watch my u14s in Yorkshire...I highly doubt they will not go down the road to watch their own players.

yep. as a minimum i would expect 'tapes' of the games to be sent back and would expect a member of the coaching staff to be attending matches where we have a number of loanees on the field

Kibula will get plenty of game time next year, think the plan is for him to see rest of season out at Swinton then start in reserves next season, Kibula Bryne and Havard are all big lads and can play fair minutes so our pack will be ok next year

Gone.

I thought that he was progressing nicely as well.

Right call for me. You can’t keep them all and even if you could he hasn’t done enough to convince me he will make it at a club with Trophy ambitions.

I hope he proves me wrong and has a great career at Wire, but for me he just looks to lack the athleticism required.

Have to agree haven’t seen much of him this season I’ll admit but I fear all he’s done has swapped one big team for another and will spend most of his time out on loan somewhere.

Hope I’m wrong as well would love to see him mature into a cracking player

Sammy was in the same age group as my lad so ive seen him play loads of times and the general feeling was that despite his physical size he was a bit soft, i remember him playing against saints under 16s a few years ago and saints forwards murdered him , after a few hits he didnt want to know

If he had Olie Partingtons aggression he would be a world class forward. He's probably one of the most skilful forwards I've seen but lacks that "mongrel"