Re: Rumours already.... : Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:09 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

One of my favourite tweets was about Asotasi who did 2 10 min spells one game, a journo reckoning he'd been round that massive Tesco for his weekly shop in between he'd been off that long.

that Journalist was lying..... I genuinely timed him once as it became clear Smith Wouldn't drop him but played him as little as possible, he did two 8 minute stints.

I remember the Cup game against Leigh when Sims was mic'd up and Asotasi as you would expect played ok against lower league opposition but sims congratulated him like you would a big daft chubby schoolkid that had just played his first game and not broken anything....

he was captain of New zealand once...!!!

Re: Rumours already.... : Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:22 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

So of the first teams squad we have Ellis, Kelly, mini, Michaels, Tomo and washbrook.

Kelly is a must, so is Mini, if Ellis feels he is up for another year then him also.

I'd look to keep only one of Washbrook or Thompson, and use their cap and Michaels to sign an impact forward.

Although with Naughton, Abdul coming back and a Kelly upgrade, I'm not sure how much we will have left.

I believe there is talk of increasing the sallary cap (I think talks are in April) so it may be good timing

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 8:40 am  

There's a rumour that George Williams is going to wire for 2018
IF true then Wigan would have a real wedge to spend. Kelly would be my 1st pick if I was any SL team looking at a half.
No gamble on an overseas settling and no English standouts available. Either way. Kelly needs tying up double quick fast

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 8:47 am  

airliebird,runninglate! wrote:

:shock: There's a rumour that George Williams is going to wire for 2018
IF true then Wigan would have a real wedge to spend. Kelly would be my 1st pick if I was any SL team looking at a half.
No gamble on an overseas settling and no English standouts available. Either way. Kelly needs tying up double quick fast

Leeds will be looking for a new half back.

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:01 am  

Marcus's Bicycle wrote:

Leeds will be looking for a new half back.

Widdop on his way to Leeds Rhinos.

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:08 am  

If I were Kelly the Wigan option would obviously appeal, but Leeds maybe less so. Rumour of Widdop to Leeds though.

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:08 am  

If he decides to move on, i wouldn't blame him. Would be slightly disappointed as I'm not sure there were queues of clubs willing to take a risk with him. Hopefully something can be sorted before the anti-tampering deadline (assuming this still exists?).

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:36 am  

Wouldn't the club have covered their bases with this?

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 12:31 pm  

Hullfc-white wrote:

Wouldn't the club have covered their bases with this?

All parties knew it was a risk hence the short term low cost heavily-caveated deal. Kelly may have fancied this to showcase what he can do. Wigan look to me to be on the brink of heavy dominance again - superb academy, big resources and therefore able to leverage salary cap increases - any player would be interested. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than work for Shaun Wane personally but I'm not a RL player and he's effective.

Another rumour is that Danny Brough is out of Huddersfield and has many suitors, including some not that far away..

Re: Rumours already.... : Sun Mar 19, 2017 12:33 pm  

Mrs Barista wrote:

All parties knew it was a risk hence the short term low cost heavily-caveated deal. Kelly may have fancied this to showcase what he can do. Wigan look to me to be on the brink of heavy dominance again - superb academy, big resources and therefore able to leverage salary cap increases - any player would be interested. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than work for Shaun Wane personally but I'm not a RL player and he's effective.

Another rumour is that Danny Brough is out of Huddersfield and has many suitors, including some not that far away..

'Swap' deal for Ellis?