It sounds like the cup will stay and if that’s the case then the team who get to the final would play 4 games, plus 15 league fixtures and potentially a play off semi and final. That would be 21 games and there’s 17 weekends between restart (for everyone) and the proposed Grand Final date. We’ll definitely need to rotate a little looking at that, which should be good news for the young players. I think given this season just isn’t normal anymore, whilst it would be great to win a trophy, we could look to experiment a little and have a look at some of these young players in a bit more depth.

How many more players will leave as there is no reserve matches this season and next. Rushton would have clocked this and did not want to stay as he had only a slim chance of playing in the first team .The options stay at Wigan and maybe play a couple of games or go to Australia have a better lifestyle and play regular and get better paid.