The usual comments have come out all over the net

Not wigan standard, he aint no barrett, what does the wigan club see in him, he aint good enough for wigan.

Wigan lack ambition, move sam to 6, our half backs are sh@, we will nothing for next 5 years, why pay so much etc etc.

Jesus H Christ please change the tune its becoming monotonous drivel, ill give some people some credit they are consistantly tedious with the same comments over and over and over again.

The club has made its decision deal with it as there aint no amount of moaning going to change it

Leneghan out

Well said that man

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A demise not caused by the club, but more the doing of the governing bodies introduction of the salary cap and other levelling measures brought in, on that basis the fans should level there moans,groans,complaints etc to the powers that be at red hall and there lack of ambition to drive the game forward and promote the quality side of the game which is taking a real hiding.

rather than clutter facebook etc with very silly and mis-informed posts about a player who a lot havent even seen or seen very little of. id back any moans, groans,detailed petitions and protests against the governing body who are to an extent stifiling the game.

Nothing like touching a raw nerve, I guess.

Your explosion of outrage is noted ... and found to be suspcious.

Don't be surprised if your views aren't shared by the junior coaching staff at St Judes, Orrell St James, Shevington Sharks, Hindley ARL and so on.

I think certain people need to take their rose tinted glasses off regarding the 'superstar' quality across the whole team in years gone by.

Dave O posted the team that Trent was in a few years ago. Look at this for a backline:

Calderwood, Vaeliki, Bailey, Colbon

Personally I wouldn't want any of them to replace any of the team this year. If that is the price of having a NRL superstar than i'll be happy with Blake Green and our current backline.

People also seem to forget we have one of the most exciting young english superstars the game has produced since the like of Hanley and Offiah.

Rather than worrying about whether the Wigan team is as good as years gone by, the problem this sport has, is that bar 2 or 3 other clubs, the standard and consistency is still as poor as ever - to make the game attractive to watch week in week out you need to say games of the intensity of wigan v wire/saints or leeds every week.

Sounds like sour grapes from you as well.

Do you honestly believe that Wigan scouts or any other club scouts don't watch St Judes, Orrell, Shevy Sharks, Hindley or any other club in Wigan? Talk about blinkered!

If you're good enough then you will be spotted and picked up - FACT!

Stop believing the crap that a lot of disgruntled junior coaches/parents constantly push just because little Jimmy isn't good enough.

Blake Green is a very good player, he has a brain, pace and is strong as an Ox (ex back rower). Playing with your pack I reckon he will be even better than he was for us in 2011 will definately cause defences an headache as he isn't predictable. He is at his best inside the oppositions 20m area, where he has scored some excellent tries as well as making tries for others.

If he is just a fill in for 2 seasons, can we have him back in 2015 please.

Oh look, someone who has actually seen him play and knows what they are talking about, unlike the Wigan fans on here that have wrote him off for "not being a big name"

Well said. You are seemingly not allowed to be unhappy about the fact the standard of player we can recruit is going down.

Before Tommy and Finch were known to be leaving I can guarantee you there isn't a regular poster on here would say Smith and Green were better players. Now we have got these two as half backs for 2013 its as if they dare not state the obvious - that our 2013 half backs won't be as good as our 2012 ones.

We may still do very well with these two in the side (if the standard of players in other teams also drops) and I will cheer them on as loud as I do Finch and Tommy but I am not going to delude myself as to their abilities. I hope I am pleasantly surprised by Green as I know little about him and the HKR fans seem to rate him but I already know Smith isn't a patch on Tommy.

Totally agree

Especially after you've quit your original club and gravitated to either Pats or IRB when you're about 14.

I wonder why that happens so much?

As a HKR supporter I am sorry to see Blake Green leave as he is a great player, maybe over exagerated using great but a good stand off, but having said that I do believe we have got the better deal we have signed the guy Travis Burns from Penrith who is supposed to be a better player Wigan will pay his first years contract, using the transfer fee, so we get him for nowt, the rest of his 3 yr contract is the same as what Blake Green was getting ,I assume, he is younger than Green and as I said earlier supposedly a better player. Only time will tell

What has that got to do with Wigan scouts watching other teams?

Lads leave clubs all the time for many different reasons and not because they've been told that thet have to play for either IRB or Pats to be picked up.

In the current under 15's Wigan squad there's 3 players who play for Shevy, 1 whose the current captain of Wigan and 1 who made the England Youth squad. How many Pats players?...none!

Kinda blows your argument out of the water!

In a roundabout way, you've answered your own question there.

Clearly this is a concept you're not unfamiliar with.

As to the rest, maybe NWC have finally grown a pair.