: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:02 am  

Pemps wrote:

I'm not sure that's the case. He said at the Fans Forum that they had offered cash for a player but the club wanted £70K and he thought it was too much so no deal was struck. I assumed that was for Richard Moore, in which case £70K is too much.

I get the impression he'll part with the cash but not at extortionate fees.

The major stumbling block is getting people off our cap if we have to pay cash.

If you look at it logically
Tony Smith wants cover at full back thats why he wants Mathers
Monaghan wants to leave Wire so the one i was told about with Smith looks like that could be the one.
Maybe a small amount of cash as well frees up cap space for us and moves a quota spot out leaves us room for another oversea player. Was told Goulding wants out but from what i have heard he is going to a Yorkshire club but do not know which

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:29 am  

Gleeson simply is not good enough, whats he done at warrington or for great britain/england recently? worst signing ever! if it comes off

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:30 am  

truewiganer wrote:

Gleeson simply is not good enough, whats he done at warrington or for great britain/england recently? worst signing ever! if it comes off

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:36 am  

truewiganer wrote:

Gleeson simply is not good enough, whats he done at warrington or for great britain/england recently? worst signing ever! if it comes off

Although i am not totally over the moon about the signing i still think it is a good one.

On the down side he does have bagage that is the major issue for me, on the plus side he can be a wonderful attacking centre one of the best in the UK and he is British, i think this is critical. In real terms we are not going to get a better British centre, which will enable us to have 1 more precious quota space available to use next year in an area we are more in need of.

At the moment touch wood off our current quota of overseas players we will be losing touch wood, Smith, Phelps Bailey maybe only needing to bring 1 in if we recruit Gleeson which can only be a positive move for the club in my opinion.

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:38 am  

[Gareth] wrote:

:oops:

???
he is
u tell me one thing he has done good?
hes an idiot on the field and off it, we have enough of those at the club, he isnt the fastest, he is greedy, his defence is suspect, and he is a warrington cast off, if he was that good he would be pulling warrington out of the mire, but is he, NO!, he is crap, wouldnt have him any where near a wigan shirt, id sooner us go for keith senior one of the oldest centres in the world or put one of the other young kids in than this waste of space. I really dont see why we need another back and again we are signing someone who is living on rep and not on form. we have way too many backs to be even thinking about signing this guy, just another huge waste of money for me,

[Pemps]

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:39 am  

truewiganer wrote: Gleeson simply is not good enough, whats he done at warrington or for great britain/england recently? worst signing ever! if it comes off In a side that underperformed more than us he comes out about even with Carmont. http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics ... 08&hp2=153

truewiganer wrote: Gleeson simply is not good enough, whats he done at warrington or for great britain/england recently? worst signing ever! if it comes off In a side that underperformed more than us he comes out about even with Carmont. http://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics ... 08&hp2=153

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:41 am  

truewiganer wrote:

???
he is
u tell me one thing he has done good?
hes an idiot on the field and off it, we have enough of those at the club, he isnt the fastest, he is greedy, his defence is suspect, and he is a warrington cast off, if he was that good he would be pulling warrington out of the mire, but is he, NO!, he is crap, wouldnt have him any where near a wigan shirt, id sooner us go for keith senior one of the oldest centres in the world or put one of the other young kids in than this waste of space. I really dont see why we need another back and again we are signing someone who is living on rep and not on form. we have way too many backs to be even thinking about signing this guy, just another huge waste of money for me,

I think he was one of the only England players to come away with any credit in the World Cup, and if the deal goes through it looks like we will be losing 2 backs.

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:46 am  

Whilst I would be happy to get a player of Gleesons ability in the side, I can't help thinking that we are looking at the wrong position. Surely we need to be looking at a prop forward first and foremost.

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:46 am  

just seems like a massive waste of money for me, goulding is a young wigan trained kid, for me hes looking good, mathers is crap let him go, and phelps if we used him right would be good but just getting rid of players and signing someone isnt going to mask the fact we have a crap coach and he cant get the best out of our players, we will sign this lad who alot of you guys see at the saviour, and he will be usless not only for his own lack of ability and wanting to work hard but for the fact that noble is crap with tactics, we will get cut appart down the wing if gleeson and roberts are on the same wing, not a good signing at all, club going in wrong direction if we are signing him, let him bugger off to aus and keep the faith in the kids, like thornley and farrell etc dont go signing half harted crap players cos they are british, we got our own trained british kids

: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:48 am  

Gleeson is on 150K

Mathers and Goulding are on around 60K each which I think is the average rugby league wage.

120k plus the 30K we have left over means we can fit him in.