The Sarginson signing certainly gives us options in the 3/4s. Basically means him, Thornley, Gelling, Burgess and Manfredi are fighting for 2 places. I think we'll see a few diiferent combinations from this 5, and I also think Sarginson, Burgess and Manfredi will spend plenty of time out on loan/dual-reg.

The Clubb signing is a bit more of a puzzler, especially on a 4 year deal. Judging from Wane's comments on the website he's going to be used as a forward. If we presume Farrell and Hansen will continue to start, he's challenging Pettybourne, Hughes and Burke for a bench spot.

I see Clubb as a replacement for Eric

Maybe they are hoping for a similar impact with Clubb as Andy Coley had. It seems like a similar sort of signing, albeit on a longer contract.

I'll be honest though and say I haven't seen much of either of these guys. Can't say I've ever gone out of my way to watch London because they usually provide the least interesting games in the competition.

We don't half have a lot of forwards at the moment:
Props - Flower, Crosby, Taylor, Dudson, Hopkins, A.Powell, Greenwood
Back rowers - Hansen, Farrell, O'Loughlin, Pettybourne, Clubb, Hughes, Burke, Lloyd, Lever

I've always liked Sarginson. He is a very skilful player and could do a utility job for Wigan in very much the same way that Ratchford does for Wire.

Clubb up until two years ago looked an excellent player, big, fast and powerful. Then he seemed to lose his way. However after just watching his interview on Wigan t.v. it is in some ways understandable, so I suppose it's wait and see what Bitcom and Wane can do with him.
Wigan have paid a transfer fee for him.

For those of you wanting to have a look at Sarginson, he's playing at #6 for England Knights v Samoa tomorrow at Salford tomorrow kick off 2 p.m.

Just a thought, that's both England U18 halfbacks (Hampshire & Williams) plus both England Knights halfbacks (Sarginson & Powell) now at Wigan.

Do you know the team Rogues? I assumed Ratchford would be at 6 with Lomax at 1

Was named yesterday:

1 Tommy Makinson (St Helens, Wigan St Judes)

2 Iain Thornley (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)

3 Josh Jones (St Helens, Blackbrook)

4 Zak Hardaker (Leeds Rhinos, Featherstone Lions)

5 Ben Cockayne (Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Normanton Knights)

6 Daniel Sarginson (London Broncos, Hemel Stags)

7 Sam Powell (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)

8 Tom Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Dewsbury Moor)

9 Josh Hodgson (Hull KR, East Hull)

10 Scott Taylor (Wigan Warriors, Skirlaugh)

11 Brett Ferres (Huddersfield Giants, Smawthorne Panthers)

12 Elliott Whitehead (Catalan Dragons, West Bowling)

13 Dominic Crosby (Wigan Warriors, Wigan & Leigh College)



Interchange

14 Chris Green (Hull FC, Skirlaugh)

15 Jack Hughes (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Judes)

16 Michael Lawrence (Huddersfield Giants, Newsome Panthers)

17 Kieran Dixon (London Broncos, Hemel Stags)

18 Brad Singleton (Leeds Rhinos, Barrow Island)

19 Josh Bowden (Hull FC, Hull Wyke)

20 Logan Tomkins (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)

Quote: Grimmy "Do you know the team Rogues? I assumed Ratchford would be at 6 with Lomax at 1'" It's on the official site. www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news

Quote: Grimmy "Do you know the team Rogues? I assumed Ratchford would be at 6 with Lomax at 1'" It's on the official site. www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news

According to Phil wilky on twitter he thinks there will be 1 more signing aswell thoughts people?Where do we need cover? Will it be young or a more mature player?

specialist Left winger if theres anything available better than what we have.

Can't wait for Clubb to start whinging about the way things are going at Wigan. Don't like being on the bench, don't like being on dual reg at South Wales, don't like the weather in Wigan etc etc.

Shame really he should have handled himself better in the last few months.

Not convinced by these signings but we haven't got much wrong lately in regards to signings so I am looking forward to seeing them both in a Wigan shirt.

Sarginson, OK. He's young and a prospect but then don't we have a lot of those in our U19's anyway?

Clubb I don't understand.

He is a forward full time now isn't he? No longer a centre?

If so I can't see him getting a game in the back row. As others have said we have several props as well.

As to four years, that I really do not get. He is not a star player and he's going to end up blocking younger Wigan produced players coming through on that length of a deal. So he'd better be a very good player after Bitcon has been at him otherwise it will be hard to justify his signing on that long a deal.

Whilst I understand to an extent what you are saying it is again with a glass half empty point of view.

I do not think Clubb or anybody else will stop a player coming through in our current regime. Quite the opposite Wane seems more than happy to drop experienced bigger names in order to give lads that deserve a chance a shot.

One thing is for sure he has the frame to be a beast in the right environment, so I think we will see improvements in him at Wigan under Bitcon.