Yeah thanks for rubbing it in

. It was my first attendance at one and may be my last. I actually left early I was getting that bored of people asking questions and trying (but failing miserably) to be funny.

I thought he said it was because they were at the Huddersfield game.

Any news on the squad - are we going with what we have got or is there anything in the pipeline ?

Absolutely. The original comment just didn't make sense!

They pulled out because they were having their company name spoken about on a board where thousands of people are present. Are they some kind of secret society?

How can this possibly be an issue? We're one of the most well supported teams in rugby league.

Any news on the squad - are we going with what we have got or is there anything in the pipeline ?

Did anyone mention the comments made by the Wakefield chairman regarding Wigan offering players in exchange for Moore?

Ian Lenegan said friday the 24th, so not sure, either the friday or the 24th, i'd assume he meant the 23rd

It does surprise me, but I suppose you have some of the cheapest admission prices too.

No info on Bird/Prop/any recruitment other than Roberts or plans for 2010 recruitment?

Wigan apparently will NEVER offer to exchange their young players in order to sign players from other clubs, but will consider loan deals.

I was thinking they don't normaly put information like that on a Saturday.

Did he mention rumours in regards to signings , Moore & Bird?

The stadium what plans are in place to stop the fiasco of the Bradford match happening again?

Just to further add to the doom and gloom:

It doens't look like we will sign a prop and we have made an offer for Greg Bird but it's unlikely we will get him. So in terms of the squad it appears as though it's 'as you were' so to speak. We have approx £20k left to play with on the salary cap but can loan out players to free up space.

Dont ask me mate, I been thinking the same thing myself.

One thing that really made me sit up and listen was when the chairman said he wanted us to triple our merchandise sales to get 'up there with the likes of Leeds, St Helens and Warrington '









Now that shocked me.

An offer has been made to bird, but ian lenegan does not expect it to be accepted as other clubs may have offered more money, but ian won't pay more for players than what he thinks they are worth (and rightly so in my opinion)

Not significantly cheap enough to stop us from spending the full salary cap , we've broke the bl**dy thing twice!

Is that 20k after the offer to bird

We only have £20,000 left on the salary cap. That could change if we do some loan deals. Offer made to Bird, IL does not expect him to accept it.

glad I didnt go. crap

That depends entirely on the judgement of Ian Lenegan if thats the decision. I hope he realises some players are worth a significant amount of money. Trent Barrett an example.

With regards to signings and releasing players he said we have about £20K left on the cap.

He went on to say that we would like a prop but we would not consider letting any of our young props go on a permanent deal, listing O'Carroll and Prescott. He did however say that it would be a possibility that we could loan certain players out to 'smaller' SL clubs to make room on the cap and within the squad.

We have made Bird an offer but he doesn't think we'll get him.

One club has asked for a £75K transfer fee for a player we're interested in. We won't pay that for this player.

Any progress on the new conditioning staff that IL promised after the last forum ?

As if I'd rub it in.

These fans forums are only useful when the club is in turmoil.



Personally I'm happy with the squad bar the possible prop short.

What a stupid statement from Lenagan.

Three words - why bother then?