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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:09 pm  
Heard Sam Powell been given a 4 year deal.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:11 pm  
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Heard Sam Powell been given a 4 year deal.


well deserved
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:27 pm  
Shaun Johnson post match interview…. “If there are any clubs out there looking for a half back, I’m your man”
We can only hope!!
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:10 pm  
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Shaun Johnson post match interview…. “If there are any clubs out there looking for a half back, I’m your man”
We can only hope!!


We'll end up with Stanley Johnson at half back at this rate.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:38 pm  
If he’s come over here Johnson would be a perfect fit for us IMO. Experience to help Smith develop, he’s now more of a controlling half than the runner he used to be and a quality goal kicker to boot.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:01 pm  
To me we either go big on somebody like Johnson or Sezer or we may as well just stick with Field and Smith. Talk of somebody like Richardson is a non starter for me. I don’t think he’d bring anything that Field and Richardson couldn’t, other than maybe better goalkicking than Harry Smith. A genuine option who can shift between halfback and hooker would be handy to replace Tommy but they’re few and far between.

I stick by my opinion that we absolutely have to nail the coaching decision and the signing of a couple of powerful forwards in the next off season and anything else is secondary for now. The guy who says he’s in the know on the other board says we’re only signing cheap players for next season and will spend nowhere near the cap but in the last 24 hours he said we’d upped our bid for Williams, had bid for Tomkins, Davies, Holmes and Luke Thompson, had been turned down by them all and had now decided we’re skint and won’t be going near the cap. That is one hell of a day or two’s worth of decisions..ha ha. It’s as though he covers every single base and then eventually goes ‘see, I told you so’. I do love his rumours though.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:05 pm  
Williams not re-signing is a disappointment but the most important deal must be to find a new coach asap.
Our win ratio is good but the style of play is awful, that's if you can call it a style. We have some excellent players and they deserve far better than what they are coached to do right now. As for our Cup defeat and the loss at Catalans they were desperately poor and Lam's reaction was nowhere near good enough. We had some bad losses under Wane but always knew that he was aware what had gone wrong and how to put it right.
Lam always convinces me that he's no idea how it went wrong and even less idea how to put it right.

A new coach with the players we have now and will next season could well provide us with the trophies we all want to see at Wigan.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:10 pm  
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well deserved

Your taking the pi55 right?
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:36 pm  
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To me we either go big on somebody like Johnson or Sezer or we may as well just stick with Field and Smith. Talk of somebody like Richardson is a non starter for me. I don’t think he’d bring anything that Field and Richardson couldn’t, other than maybe better goalkicking than Harry Smith. A genuine option who can shift between halfback and hooker would be handy to replace Tommy but they’re few and far between.

I stick by my opinion that we absolutely have to nail the coaching decision and the signing of a couple of powerful forwards in the next off season and anything else is secondary for now. The guy who says he’s in the know on the other board says we’re only signing cheap players for next season and will spend nowhere near the cap but in the last 24 hours he said we’d upped our bid for Williams, had bid for Tomkins, Davies, Holmes and Luke Thompson, had been turned down by them all and had now decided we’re skint and won’t be going near the cap. That is one hell of a day or two’s worth of decisions..ha ha. It’s as though he covers every single base and then eventually goes ‘see, I told you so’. I do love his rumours though.



I actually don’t think Richardson is a poor option particularly if we also end up with a strong pack of forwards in front of him. He’s shown that he can be a very good player especially on the front foot and under a good coach I think he’s the type of player who would improve at Wigan and who would want to do well.

Field is still a bit of an unknown for me, we know he’s quick but who knows how he will be after his injury.

I’d take Richardson and a strong pack in a heart beat at the moment.
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Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Jun 16, 2021 2:50 am  
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I actually don’t think Richardson is a poor option particularly if we also end up with a strong pack of forwards in front of him. He’s shown that he can be a very good player especially on the front foot and under a good coach I think he’s the type of player who would improve at Wigan and who would want to do well.

Field is still a bit of an unknown for me, we know he’s quick but who knows how he will be after his injury.

I’d take Richardson and a strong pack in a heart beat at the moment.


Yet another example of us settling for dross when we should be targeting quality. Richardson should be nowhere near a starting HB for Wigan. He isn’t good enough and never was for a top level club. Why are we ‘wanting’ us to waste money on a player we don’t need? We can run with Field/Smith. We don’t need a bang average player like Richardson.

We need powerful forwards. I understand why we probably made GW signing a priority but now that’s (allegedly) gone down the pan we ought to be turning our sights back to it. Any other playing position for me at this time is secondary.

Whilst we’re on with that we can also be on with finding Lam’s successor.
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