Re: Out of contract players : Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:34 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Feel free to correct me, I might have missed one or two announcements, but I believe the following are out of contract at the end of the season:

Paul Wellens
Ade Gardner
Anthony Laffranchi
Mark Flannagan
Lee Gaskell------> Bradford
Carl Forster
Nathan Ashe

If I've not missed the announcements, why has the club not announced those new deals? The top two would warrant a bit of a fanfare for their last home league game, particularly as we could still end up 7th and potentially having no home play off games? So they've clearly signed deals, so where are the announcements?

They are probably saving the good news of wellens and ade signing new deals for when saints get knocked out of the playoffs. It will be just the pick me up the saints fans need.

Re: Out of contract players : Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:37 pm  

Carlos Alberto wrote:

Ade Gardner... Paul Wellens... If you love them let them go.

But where would they go?

If you let them go you're casting them down with the sodomites. Only cas, wakefield london and the like will want them.

How can you be so cruel hearted?

Re: Out of contract players : Sat Aug 31, 2013 7:32 pm  

Time to act like a professional sports club, there's no room for sentiment with a salary cap

Re: Out of contract players : Sun Sep 01, 2013 11:44 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Time to act like a professional sports club, there's no room for sentiment with a salary cap

Spot on.

Re: Out of contract players : Sun Sep 01, 2013 3:28 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

Saint Simon wrote:

Time to act like a professional sports club, there's no room for sentiment with a salary cap

Spot on.

Fully Agree. Unfortunately the offers to these players have been made.

Wigan's equivalent of Clough is Tuson , he has done nothing wrong
and isn't on megabucks but has been moved on to Wakey.

because Wigan want to freshen things up and give other players
youngsters a go.

Sometimes you need to be ruthless.

Gardner in particular has been well looked after for far too long
for basically a "Dave Tanner".

Re: Out of contract players : Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:59 pm  

Wello and Gardner have done nothing to deserve a new contract, laffranchi either

Re: Out of contract players : Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:05 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

Wello and Gardner have done nothing to deserve a new contract, laffranchi either

I'll be very interested to see what role wello will play next year.

Re: Out of contract players : Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:15 pm  

St pete wrote:

I'll be very interested to see what role wello will play next year.

If he is still in our full strength 17 then there is something seriously wrong and I'd question just who is making the decisions.

Re: Out of contract players : Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:19 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

If he is still in our full strength 17 then there is something seriously wrong and I'd question just who is making the decisions.

At a push he can get away with playing fullback but he can't play anywhere else. He can't be a utility player as they cover more than one position and he can't.

He should have retired at the end of last season.

[Frosties.]

: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:41 pm  

OOC: Nathan Ashe, Mark Flanagan, Ade Gardner, Joe Greenwood, Josh Perry, Dominic Speakman, Adam Swift, James Tilley, Paul Wellens, Dan Yates