Thats a great post.

Fully endorse what you are saying

If the report in this mornings Express that Fuifui Moimoi is to sign for Leigh later this week proves to be true, it will make the Leigh v Wigan warm up match in January a lot more interesting. Well done Leigh for trying to raise the profile of the Club.

I thought Wire were after him?

they have paid a fee to secure his signature for the 2019 season

I assume thou jesteth, kind sir. He'll be pushing 40 - he's not Stanley Gene (unless there's something in the water in Tonga)

Wane doesn't think so. He has already said expect to see less young players given games next season due to it being important go well in the regular rounds with P&R back in the picture.

Did he say less young players or less debutants? I seem to recall the latter, which doesn't really apply to Powell (39 apps) or Williams (26 apps)

Didn't he say he'd give less debuts not that he'd play less youngsters? Guys like Hampshire, Williams, Burgess, Manfredi, Sutton etc will still get plenty of games. Due to Thornleys injury I'd expect Gildart to debut pretty early next year but granted not many others may be given their bow due to the new structure. I wouldn't say that's the only reason though, another is the fact that the ones that are ready or nearly ready have already debuted and the next batch of kids like Shorrocks, Waterworth, Gregson etc are all a couple of years off being ready.

We'll still have a very young squad and team next year, possibly the youngest.

While young I think some of our young players have quite a few games under their belt such as Burgess and Williams (who has been given the 6 jersey anyway) and are established first team members already. I assumed Wane and you were referring to players with far less experience than that.

I will be interesting to see if say Bowen is injured whether he puts an established player like Sarginson at 1 with Joel moving to centre rather than play a much less experienced player like Tierney.

In my original post I was talking more so about young halves then in general but the point still stands that the league is still weak enough to allow us to keep developing guys like Hampshire, Williams, Manfredi, Sutton and so on. All have debuted already and I fully agree it may be more difficult now to give debuts (although in truth we don't have that many lads ready now who haven't already had their debut) then last year but I don't see no reason why these lads can't keep developing.

They're all still juniors for me(apart from maybe Burgess who is fully established) and will continue to get games. 10 years ago I certainly wouldn't have classed a lad like Williams as established and I still don't now. He's got a way to go to get to that level but we can give him a chance to do that were ten years back I'd have been calling for us to sign a replacement for Green. At the moment I don't feel there's a need for us to do that.

I still think Wane will put faith in young players in the correct positions to stand up in the event of an injury like your Bowen example. If he was out I'd expect Hampshire to play, if Charnley was injured I'd expect Manfredi to play, if Sarginson was injured I'd expect Gildart to play and so on. Gildart would be the only debutant on that list but giving him a 4 year deal is a sign they think he's ready.

Heard Paul Wood has walked out on Wire, contacted Wigan to enquire about a move but was told we had better options. Not sure if that will change now Eddy has gone