Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:30 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Is it? or is Roby's or Wilkin's? And it's only to a max of £50K

I thought it applied to all players who have had a testimonial with the club, and they got upto £50k per year of their salary exempt from the cap (could be wrong that was just the way I understood it).

Either way, Wellens had his testimonial before Wilkin & Gardner, and Roby's testimonial year is 2014 so wont be his until after that. I cant see Wello commanding top dollar any more, and even if we paid him £100k a season only £50k would count on the cap. I think we would struggle to get a squad player to come in on £50k a year or less who is a better option than Wello and for that reason I think it is a good move to keep him (as long as it is as a squad player)

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:50 am  

wakey_saint wrote:

I thought it applied to all players who have had a testimonial with the club, and they got upto £50k per year of their salary exempt from the cap (could be wrong that was just the way I understood it).

Either way, Wellens had his testimonial before Wilkin & Gardner, and Roby's testimonial year is 2014 so wont be his until after that. I cant see Wello commanding top dollar any more, and even if we paid him £100k a season only £50k would count on the cap. I think we would struggle to get a squad player to come in on £50k a year or less who is a better option than Wello and for that reason I think it is a good move to keep him (as long as it is as a squad player)

The thing is, if Wellens left we could get the £50k allowance on Wilkin's salary instead (you can only get the allowance on one salary), so it's not a saving in real terms.

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:11 am  

wakey_saint wrote:

I thought it applied to all players who have had a testimonial with the club, and they got upto £50k per year of their salary exempt from the cap (could be wrong that was just the way I understood it).

Either way, Wellens had his testimonial before Wilkin & Gardner, and Roby's testimonial year is 2014 so wont be his until after that. I cant see Wello commanding top dollar any more, and even if we paid him £100k a season only £50k would count on the cap. I think we would struggle to get a squad player to come in on £50k a year or less who is a better option than Wello and for that reason I think it is a good move to keep him (as long as it is as a squad player)

Give over. Take Wellens' name and past achievements out of the equation and he's not worth a place. The likes of Swift are better in every position Wello plays, and I'm sure the likes of Charnock and Yates are too so why bother keeping him?

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:30 am  

Going to be very interesting where we play him next year. He's lost his fullback role and IMO he can't play any other postion.

He shouid have took Salford up and their offer, I would have been best for all parties

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:10 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Is it? or is Roby's or Wilkin's? And it's only to a max of £50K

We've had him practicing his best welsh accent. The delay in announcing the new contract is because McManus hasnt had time to head over to the RFL yet and cry about how unfair the salary cap is and demand we can keep Wello for free for the good of the game.

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:12 pm  

St pete wrote:

Going to be very interesting where we play him next year. He's lost his fullback role and IMO he can't play any other postion.

He shouid have took Salford up and their offer, I would have been best for all parties

Unless we sign up O'Brien or someone similar I can see him clogging up standoff because Wheeler will no doubt spend most of next year on the treatment table. If my some miracle Wheeler stays fit then I'd expect him to be wedged in at loose forward where he can take the place of a decent forward.

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:44 pm  

No1 Saint wrote:

Unless we sign up O'Brien or someone similar I can see him clogging up standoff because Wheeler will no doubt spend most of next year on the treatment table. If my some miracle Wheeler stays fit then I'd expect him to be wedged in at loose forward where he can take the place of a decent forward.

If he ends up at loose, that means that either wilkin, sia or Manu not getting picked and all three are 100 times better than wello.

The amount of cap space we could free up by letting wello, Ade, Laffranchi plus the ones like Meli, TP and Perry should allow us to bring in top quality players but we are giving dead wood like wello, Laffranchi and Ade new deals.

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:52 pm  

If it was a choice between retaining Wello or signing a young prospect like Breierly from Leigh (rumoured to be moving to superleague), which would you go for?

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:58 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

If it was a choice between retaining Wello or signing a young prospect like Breierly from Leigh (rumoured to be moving to superleague), which would you go for?

Hard to say without seeing the young lad play.

Re: Wellens is staying : Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:05 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

If it was a choice between retaining Wello or signing a young prospect like Breierly from Leigh (rumoured to be moving to superleague), which would you go for?

Breirley, looks an exciting prospect. This year has been one too many for Wello, to give him another seems stupid.