: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:53 am  

Clearwing wrote:

Maybe we should let wigan go down this road & see exactly where it gets them?

Probably the same place it got Leeds (and Wigan themselves) from the late 80s through the 90s and onward to the brink of bankruptcy...

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:08 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Probably the same place it got Leeds (and Wigan themselves) from the late 80s through the 90s and onward to the brink of bankruptcy...

Ah but what entertainment we had from legendary signings from the Union ranks such as Eddie Rombo, David Young, John Gallagher, Jon Scales, Mark Brooke-Cowden etc. Not forgetting the knock on benefits these lads brought international RL..................

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:15 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Probably the same place it got Leeds (and Wigan themselves) from the late 80s through the 90s and onward to the brink of bankruptcy...

As a business model perhaps as a rich man's plaything I doubt it.

Ian Lenagan's worth a bob or two, isn't he?

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:39 pm  

tvoc wrote:

As a business model perhaps as a rich man's plaything I doubt it.

Ian Lenagan's worth a bob or two, isn't he?

He may well be, but how much of it is he willing to spend propping up an unsustainable business model? Even the Abramovich's of the world realise that there comes a time when the baby has to learn to walk on its own two feet rather than being carried everywhere by its (sugar) daddy.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:15 pm  

That would depend initially and in the short term if Lenagan (like Whelan before him) feels constrained by the present salary cap. An extra million here or there in wages may even be affordable against anticipated levels of potential turnover.

Hopefully the RFL will have none of it, not for Wigan's sake but for the sake of the game at large.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:13 pm  

tvoc wrote:

That would depend initially and in the short term if Lenagan (like Whelan before him) feels constrained by the present salary cap. An extra million here or there in wages may even be affordable against anticipated levels of potential turnover.

Hopefully the RFL will have none of it, not for Wigan's sake but for the sake of the game at large.

Why would it only benefit Wigan?

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:01 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Why would it only benefit Wigan?

Where have I said that it would?

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:00 pm  

G1 wrote:

Ah but what entertainment we had from legendary signings from the Union ranks such as Eddie Rombo, David Young, John Gallagher, Jon Scales, Mark Brooke-Cowden etc. Not forgetting the knock on benefits these lads brought international RL..................

This lad was the epitomy of these words................

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:17 pm  

DoubleAone wrote:

This lad was the epitomy of these words................

Remember the padded cycling shorts he used to wear in his Bulls days? Jonathon Davis came out with a cracker during a CC game, "it's like trying to tackle someone with two sofas strapped to his legs".

I do remember him scoring during a particularly humiliating CC semi defeat to the Dulls though.

: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:12 pm  

Dave Heron's Moustache wrote:

I do remember him scoring during a particularly humiliating CC semi defeat to the Dulls though.

Not just scoring, but scoring a hat trick. The lad was complete gash though, that semi notwithstanding.