Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 12:09 pm  

I can’t believe I’ve never been to theses beautiful places in Wigan that hold such a pull over Australia. Presumably NRL teams will be more reluctant to sign Wigan players on big contracts knowing they are likely to disappear after a season.
OR is someone pulling the old “homing pigeon scam” selling off at an inflated fee and waiting by the loft for them to return home*?
* For the purposes of potential litigation this is a light hearted suggestion and not intended to impugn the honour of any team/owner

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 12:22 pm  

Maybe he's going back to Wigan, and he's not getting paid for it, a la Radlinski. Rat smelt......(nothing to do with Tomkins)

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 12:48 pm  

It would make sense for Leeds to sign him until the end of the year.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 12:58 pm  

Perhaps the Williams unrest has given Widdop the impetus to put his new improved game in the Aussie shop window.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 2:06 pm  

Captain Hook wrote:

I can’t believe I’ve never been to theses beautiful places in Wigan that hold such a pull over Australia. Presumably NRL teams will be more reluctant to sign Wigan players on big contracts knowing they are likely to disappear after a season.
OR is someone pulling the old “homing pigeon scam” selling off at an inflated fee and waiting by the loft for them to return home*?
* For the purposes of potential litigation this is a light hearted suggestion and not intended to impugn the honour of any team/owner

James Graham spoke well on this on NRL 360 this morning basically saying when he went to Australia you plan getting your family over to see you and you coming home in the off season but with Covid none of them things have been able to happen. The same thing happened with Bateman where he wasn't able to see his daughter last year because of Covid.

Anyway, I'd love us to break the bank for Williams. He was, for me, the best halfback in the competition when he left and he'll be even better now. I'd sooner him than Trueman.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 3:20 pm  

could always get Castleford to sign him on loan as a marque player until the end of the season to get him used to working with Daryl Powell!!!!!

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 6:38 pm  

World-class English talent, start of his peak, won't wanna' go back to the NRL.

If Warrington has a chance, then we have to make it happen.

If that means being ruthless and paying Austin off or whatever, so be it.

If he's intent on going to Wigan then fair enough, but we've surely gotta be making efforts to lure him.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 7:25 pm  

Trueman could end up like Brierley , missing the boat by not moving to a big club on decent money when he had the chance.
Anyways the Duck on Williams ‘nailed on’ is still running. [whistles]

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 8:17 pm  

Jack Napier wrote:

World-class English talent, start of his peak, won't wanna' go back to the NRL.

If Warrington has a chance, then we have to make it happen.

If that means being ruthless and paying Austin off or whatever, so be it.

If he's intent on going to Wigan then fair enough, but we've surely gotta be making efforts to lure him.

As I understand it paying off Austin means it still counts on the SC it doesn’t just disappear.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 8:28 pm  

Captain Hook wrote:

As I understand it paying off Austin means it still counts on the SC it doesn’t just disappear.

You are correct, but if an Australian team signed him off us now, then we wouldn`t have paid him off.................