Jusst like to say good luck to Mr Pryce, the powers that be must se something in him otherwise he would have been cast a drift to a lesser club ( no names mentioned [sizewire[/size.

All the best for 2011 karl.

I'm looking forward to many more arguments with fellow Wigan fans over the skills of Karl

I'd say so, yes. That's the whole point of the loan/dual reg system. We recalled Charnley from HKR for a single game (admittedly it was aginst HKR, so he couldn't have played for them anyway), and also Ainscough from Cas for one game.



True - though he'll probably be covering for Pat until he's recovered.

I'm pretty sure if we were to send Charnley out on loan he wouldn't be able to be recalled for the first month. Also, Ainscough and Charnley never returned to the clubs they were at. If we recall them, chances are they aren't going back out on loan to those same clubs and we'd have to find a new one. They won't take too kindly to being messed around and having to sort out a new loan deal because we keep recalling players for just a single match. It would disrupt the player and clubs would think twice before taking our players on loan.

I'm not a fan of Karl Pryce at all and i make no bones about it. I didn't rate him when watching him at bradford and dont rate him now. It's about overall contribution to the team for me and Karl doesn't offer much more than finishing off trys from 10 yards out. (a bit of a general statement but you get my drift) But putting my dislike to one side, i actually can't work out how he's managed to get an extension. I understood the last extension as it gave Pryce a chance to show to madge what he could do over a full season. He hasn't done anything to warrant a spot. Others have gone on their way quicker than Pryce has. And how narked would i be if i was Carmont who has to justify his extension every year whereas KP just has to fall over the line a few times and then take it easy in the reserves for the rest of the season and get another deal??? I'd rather let him go and use the "real" youngsters as extra cover

The big difference is that Carmont was 31 years of age when he wanted a two year deal.Wigan only wanted to give him a one year contract. It was the correct thing to do to monitor the number of games he played in 2010, which then "triggered" the extra year. it worked well for both Geporge and the club.
It's now up to Pryce to prove that he is worth another contract for 2012. if he performs he will get one, if he doesn't he won't.
I don't think that either Ryan King or Matty Russel are ready for Superleage yet, so keeping Pryce was always a viable option.

From the club's point of view, it was a perfect deal.

Everything we've seen from the new management team has shown us that performance is the indicator to how your future at Wigan will pan out. Pryce will most probably get his chances in 2011 to prove that he merits a place at Wigan going forward, which is exactly how it should be.

Good luck to him

At the end of the day, it's a bit of a pointless argument. He's here, and there's not much point in people sitting around fuming about it.

Pryce is a condundrum to me. I wish he was as good as people seem to think he could be, but neither do I think he's as bad as is sometimes portrayed.

At the end of the day, he's a small part of a large and very efficient squad. In that respect, I don't think he weakens us noticably, if at all.

IMO, there is too much good stuff going on at Wigan at present for us to get angry or frustrated by something like this.

I've been watching this thread with great amusement for sometime now.

A point that's being missed on the top 25 earners and the salary cap will always be the 25th (or 23rd, 24th etc) highest earner at the club regardless of how little they actually earn.

Putting somebody in the 25th highest earners at the club does not directly equate to them getting much of a wage at all. Just do some basic math.

How much is he on? we'll never know exactly.

All we can deduce is that there's a KP's salary shaped space on our salary cap liability (1st or 2nd tier), lets call that amount X and that the club deem that spending amount X on KP was more beneficial to the team than using amount X for any other purpose. When considering that X maybe small (and still put him in the top 25), and only the club know what X is and what the alternatives are, further discussion on X becomes moot.

Eitherway I expect this to run and run until it's quoted to death.

SEB,
You've been quiet for a while.

Agree entirely, but you won't convince a lot on here.

Dave O will come up with some conspiracy theory, written by Mickey Highams mum of course.

We should start to call Karl Pryce "the Cat" - he seems to have as many lives.

my granny would have scored the trys he scored and she's dead.

Doubt it.

I am not comparing the players but when Pat Richards plucks a ball out of mid air and falls over the line it deemed amazing.

When Pryce does the same it is because he is a lazy get who was probably going to fall over anyway.

We have just seen the benefit already of his signing in that we can now confidently allow one of our junior outside backs a seasons first team development without leaving the squad with less depth.

Pryce provides significant cover freeing up other players to progress their careers for the benefit of the club long term, without damaging the squad short term.

Fantastic planning, and strategy, of course Dave O will have had a better plan to progress the lads careers without signing Pryce.