I've heard your signing a young lad from leigh miners rangers, he's turned down st helens, warrington and salford and is a future great britain prospect his name is MIKE RIDLEY and he's been the leading try scorer for leigh miners for the past 4 years

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sounds like a good prospect but how anyone can say a future great britain prospect is beyond me....Let him sign professional first, then work his way through to Super League first.....then when he is established there, lets see what happens.............

Lad only just getting signed at 16 years old. long way to go mate, playing for a club will be alot different to the step ups required but I am sure the young man will no that..

Good luck to him, hope he does achieve all you expect from him

It must be bollox. I thought we only signed lads from Pats?

Liam Carberry was signed from Bold Miners A.R.L.F.C. St, Helens.

A little OT but some of things that Lenegan mentioned in regards to the academy and foundation and the initiatives that are being put in place sound very good, and if it helps us attract the kids away from joining are rivals and coming to us the better. It seems that competition for these kids is increasing like mad and I hear through the grapevine that some of the sums being paid are very large, is this the case?

Wigan picked up Stuart Littler from the miners. Gave him 1 session and binned him off and salford pounced. They picked up Ricky Bibey from Leigh East when he was 11 also.

What we all forget is that they were only spotted the day they played against St Pats

I didn't realise Ray French posted on here.