He will not further his career at Widnes. Doesn,t their coach speak (double) Dutch ?

Somebody has literally just posted this on the Wigan forum- www.leighreporter.co.uk/centurio ... 6038799.jp He's off to Widnes by the looks of it and Millward isn't best pleased. It would seem to make more sense to allow a Leigh lad to go and play for Leigh but there you go. From our point of view i'm just happy that he's going to get some proper games in but i'd guess the lad would have liked a move to Leigh.

Somebody has literally just posted this on the Wigan forum- www.leighreporter.co.uk/centurio ... 6038799.jp He's off to Widnes by the looks of it and Millward isn't best pleased. It would seem to make more sense to allow a Leigh lad to go and play for Leigh but there you go. From our point of view i'm just happy that he's going to get some proper games in but i'd guess the lad would have liked a move to Leigh.

Quote ="NickyKiss"Somebody has literally just posted this on the Wigan forum- www.leighreporter.co.uk/centurio ... 6038799.jp He's off to Widnes by the looks of it and Millward isn't best pleased. It would seem to make more sense to allow a Leigh lad to go and play for Leigh but there you go. From our point of view i'm just happy that he's going to get some proper games in but i'd guess the lad would have liked a move to Leigh.'" Oh Poop

Quote ="NickyKiss"Somebody has literally just posted this on the Wigan forum- www.leighreporter.co.uk/centurio ... 6038799.jp He's off to Widnes by the looks of it and Millward isn't best pleased. It would seem to make more sense to allow a Leigh lad to go and play for Leigh but there you go. From our point of view i'm just happy that he's going to get some proper games in but i'd guess the lad would have liked a move to Leigh.'" Oh Poop

I wouldn't waste any time on who's not coming and concentrate on who is.

Mitchell, Blythe and especially McCarthy are excellent signings.

See we are getting rubbished again on the goons board, calling Millward for his comments, and one of them reckon we will come second bottom or there abouts, its on the Ben Davies thread.

Dont be daft frank , he talks utter bollox

Well personally I think fans who aren't LISA members and can afford a fiver a month might realise that with more members we could make a difference.

Where there more members perhaps we would have have signed this very promising player. You never know do you ?

Kploc. Just in case Cullen is reading this 'you Patok.

For those who do not understand the last bit I have just watched a Star Trek episode I recorded months ago.

TOC went whining after we got the three Wire lads he thought he had. Seems Lenegan and Hogan may be hot air mongers

Neighbours eveybody needs good Neighbours

After sending their kids in the friendly and not supporting us on loan players over the last few seasons,it will be good to rekindle our hatred of Wigan,things were getting a bit too cosy for my liking

Ben Davies is defo going to Widnes been some wrangling over money?? according to my sources lenigan and hogan had agreed to send Ben to Leigh, but the coaching staff decided he would be better off at Widnes?? even though Ben would prefer to play for his hometown club.
Dont know how this is going to benefit Ben when the chances of 1st team rugby are going to be slim.

Widnes are a bigger club than Leigh, always have been and always will be. Ben has a chance at winning silverware and playing in an all round great setup. His current reserve team almost beat you recently so is he really bettering himself at Leigh?

The deal has been on the cards for a while but dont get announced for a while until they can play.

As some of the retards on the Pie board quite rightly say wigan owe us nothing BUT wasn't it them who promised to send out their best kids to us and send their first team for pre season games? I hope we can get a replacement Loan Prop from somewhere else as well as our 3 from Wire.

=#FF0000You might want to edit that.

Ian Lenegan said he'd help Leigh should it be in ours and the players interest, and this time it obviously isn't for whatever reason. Also, we didn't agree to field ''our first team'' for the friendlies and regardless of the team we have sent, Leigh have benefited both on and off the pitch thanks to us.

A big factor could be Ian Millward and the poor relationships he built whilst at Wigan. The current manager of the Wigan players had a well documented fall out with him and didn't like his man management, so that could have played a part too.

Either way, we have helped Leigh in one way or another since Lenegans reign and it would be pathetic for anybody from Leigh to whinge about Wigan not giving them something when a better deal whether financial or performance related is available for us.

Actually Alex (and I have it on video) The Wigan Ch exec Mr Hogan said at the LSV after the game V Wigan 'We will do all in our power to assist you (Leigh) in your quest for SuperLeague, as the contest needs more teams from this side of the hills and what better team than our nearest neighbours', so the first time we ask for help we get refused, ohh and the agreement was 'Strongest team avilable' so get off the high horse and admit Wigan have not done what they said they would.
I personally am thankfull that Wigan have agreed to play the three games and can understand why they sent 'the kids' but stop trying to defend the undefensible, it was a shabby trick to play on your own speccies full stop.

Regardless of what you say the contents of a contract generally mean what they say. W£$%n signed it regardless of who is coach.

Just because we're not sending Davies on loan to you doesn't mean we're not helping you. He's one of our best prospects and we want to put him in the best environment for the best possible deal and we don't think that is Leigh, so why should we lose out to help you whom we have no ties with what so ever? Just because you've lost out on this occaision doesn't mean we're going back on our intentions. In fact, I know a player in our reserves who is in talks with you and as long as the player and Wigan are satisfied with agreements then it will go ahead and that will be ''our way of assisting you getting into Super League.'' You can't expect us to just hand you things on a plate! We obviously have to benefit from agreements too, afterall it's a business as well as a Rugby club.

In regards to the ''shabby trick'' to play on our speccies. They announced the team days in advance of the game so that spectators we're able to see what they were about to pay for and then make their own decision whether to go to the game or not. I saw the team and made the decision not to pay the £14.00 to go the the fixture. How is that a shabby trick?

You should just be thankful Wigan give you anything at all.

What contract?

All good young players for us who I hope will be in the first time in the future, Mitchell catched the eye of a few first team players in pre season an is tipped to do well (Morley and Joey Johns I think), they will score a few tries for you lot.

3 good players who I think will assist us well this term. Mcartney especially is a decent player and a great acquisition. We need to continue building on our platform and get behind the team.

THANKFUL!Well i've heard it all now ,prey tell why we should be thankful,like you said its got to benifit Wigan at the same time or else players wont be coming .

As our extremely intelectual Pie Eater says these massive SL clubs dictate the way we should be run after all its Super League not RL anymore is it. Thanks for your comments why don't you save them for expansion and all other things that will benefit the game and leave us small clubs to die quietly.

I think you'll find Wigan (''A massive SL club'') are helping Widnes by loaning them Ben Davies and at the same time we're benefiting by allowing him to have game time. That's an example of how pathetic and wrong the above post is.

We'll be doing similar agreements with Leigh to as long as the deal is right for both clubs and player.

The one mentioned by Millward and others