Well, TS certainly has a big enough shopping list....Barba, Carney, Brown, Mellor, Eastmond & Miller ,or just stick with Patton. Decisions,decisions.

Oops just realised the feathered one said November 17...so there are quite a few days left!

Nov 17 is what I said
17 November isn't.

I cannot answer for your confusion.
Perhaps your mother stuck your feeding bottle up your ass?!

I realise I may have inadvertently breached the rules when I mentioned my 22" FS tv (still for sale and in midnight black, with full remote control and [uwall supports[/u if required), but asking another poster if he received his milk feed via an alternative 'port' certainly sounds to me as though you are stretching the rules well beyond Mr Hooks rules of elasticity. It's nearly Xmas, play nicely and don't get grumpy.

The intention wasn't to come across grumpy as yours wasn't to come across pedantic to me yesterday.

My intention was one of bating the ball back adding humour to his earlier attempt of wit.

Other than that all is good as is the thought of a 22" flat screen for my caravan.

would you like a Now TV box configured with a 12 month sports package to go with that TV?

It is a good job the Wigan Academy knows how to produce players otherwise we would be struggling in key positions.

Is that now Brown, Russell, Ratchford, Crosby, Currie and Hughes?

Looking at the squad it looks like another season of failure to me.

"outdone on retention" could have been an offer of e.g. £80k salary by both clubs, but Wire offering a 4yr deal whilst Wigan offering only 2yrs. So it was not at all pedantic, I was just trying to clarify.

We could do as well as any team in SL with the team we seem to be settling for. Quality throughout the league is not great & the team that does well could just be the best of a bad bunch.

The Brown signing and the rumoured £100k just shows the mess snake Sandow left is in in. But it's total desperation and we'll no doubt end up with him and Gidley sat in the stand at the same time

Yet another nearly season looming

Just another drop in quality looming this season, and the whole of SuperLeague continues to decline in quality. The sport will be back part time before you know it

The boring rugby we ended up playing at the end of the season, will no doubt continue, reliant on Clark and a winger who's not a winger scoots from dummy half.

The crowds will begin to vote with their feet and drift away

We're doooooomed!
Happy Jack or what? Cheer up ... please.

Us and the sport as a whole are on an ever increasing downwards spiral. The quality served up last season was average at the very best. The sheer dearth in quality highlighted in 4 nations

If you're happy with Kevin Brown as any type of solution, then your happy with the mediocrity of this league and this team.

Each to their own hey

I'm lost, not for the first time...Was RD having a go at me AFTER I admitted my misreading of his post?

I suppose you're right. Then there's Trump, Brexit and global warming. Don't get me going on ball tampering ... oh and flamin' Christmas. I may not be leaping up and down with excitement but I can understand why Kevin Brown was signed. It's to do with being short of half-back options at the start of the season.

So do you think that blowing rumoured £100k on a stop gap is sensible, not for me, would rather have thrown £100k at Wakey for Miller and even that would have had me underwhelmed

Quoting yourself?...
You must be fed up,
W/O has a 22" he could put your way allegedly. If it wasn't breaking forum code.
Or since we're talking mediocrity lately, you can always hold out for the wooden nose.

This has left weird way behind...

Really????

Failure - LLS winners and runners up in the other 2 comps.

Try sod all for most of the 90s and 00s.

Pack has been strengthened.
Backs the same as last year but with Toby K more experienced.
Gidley and Dec were a good pair when they played.

We will miss Sandow. Until injured he was virtually unplayable. Can't understand those who say he only played a couple of good games for us.

Losing Currie and Ratch is a blow also.

Others have strengthened well so I doubt we'll do as well as last season but I can still see us being in a shout for silverware in 2017.

Trouble is the club had half an inkling this may happen as "they were not surprised", this implies they considered it would. So was there mitigation and planning for this eventuality? Did we seek reassurances before the "first day back" date that he would appear? Or was the "not surprised" really a throwaway comment and they were indeed surprised and left scrabbling around in the left luggage for a Louis Vuitton only to find an ASDA bag for life.

I don't think the money is a problem at all. I think we have plenty and the £100K, of course, won't count on Salary Cap. I'd have preferred Miller ... as he'd be a longer term option but Wakefield would obviously not let go. We might get him one day. He's good and a real running half back.

I just don't get why anyone has to be signed. I get that we need a bit of cover at the start of the season so why not just bring someone in on loan? Ryan Brierley on loan would have got me more excited than Kevin Brown signed up on a full contract.

The question "The half back solution" should never be answered by the suggestion of Kevin Brown at £100k plus wages. An absolutely appallingly bad business decision if it goes ahead.

Did we not sign the most promising new half back from Leeds?

Cor there's a scoop. I never realised Ryan Brierley was available on loan and then you could send him back when not required. We missed out on that one. What else don't we know?

Brad Dwyer too, no?