I am not saying a player should not get paid when injured, just think it was a bad investment when they signed him when injured at NZW it could turn out that he may never play again and I hope not.

How would you have reacted if we had allowed him to sign for Warrington or Saints or Leeds? Like the rest of us, I bet you'd have gone bonkers!

It's a setback but rather 6-8 weeks than 6-8 months.

Let's get him fit and good to go. If we can get the majority of the injuries back in the meantime would be a bonus. Still confident we can not only compete this season but retain the main prize in October.

There's a difference between wages and cap money, though. Of course he should be fully paid , but I do believe there should be some allowance within the salary cap rules to allow some sort of discount for long-term injured players.

It was always going to be an issue when any marquee player got injured for a long time instead of faffing around with this the RFL should have just raised the cap in my opinion.

Get him on SSP is that about £60 a week, that's a saving only joking I hope he gets back soon and I do think he still can be as good as he once was, but we can't rush it.

Well they would have had to pay him for two for nothing instead of us as for Warrington Saints Leeds it has happen before and always will, no problem we have always had players coming through and we will carry bringing players through.

There's no disputing the quality of our player development but Sam Tomkins is completely different in my eyes. He's a once in a generation player who single handily won games for us with his explosive attacking play. There is not a single Wigan fan that wouldn't have been gutted if he'd signed elsewhere.

Sam is no doubt one of the most exciting and best players to play for Wigan. But as a marquee player and with Escare playing so well, it worries me that the money could be spent elsewhere i.e. Keeping hold of George whilst possibly offering Escare a long term deal

The club have conducted a full investigation into the number of injuries over the last two years and found no trends

Any word on Gelling? Don't recall him returning

Making a call on Thursday. He didn't train yesterday.

He's named in the 19, but so are Gildart and Forsythe, so presumably 2of those 3 will be the centres, depending on fitness.

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www.wigantoday.net/sport/rugby-l ... -1-8526036 It just keeps getting worse