Quite.



You're not going to be able to create a champions side out of entirely home grown players.

NO!!!! If they are not born within the WN1 area, we dont want them!!

What about wages?



They are on quite a bit more than league players so what would make them take a pay cut to come over to our code?



Plus they get massive sponsor deals (if they become very good) thats an added bonus

And they wont like our pies!!

how the hell will we sign class players from union when they have a salary cap of a minimum of £4.26m from 2012. www.espnscrum.com/premiership-20 ... 40449.html ...unless we re-dress the balance and allow our top players to earn comparable wages then we will lose the more and more to Union from a younger age

how the hell will we sign class players from union when they have a salary cap of a minimum of £4.26m from 2012. www.espnscrum.com/premiership-20 ... 40449.html ...unless we re-dress the balance and allow our top players to earn comparable wages then we will lose the more and more to Union from a younger age

We can find them a few pasties

I avoid saying nice things about Wigan where possible, but ALL sane people like your pies.

When the aussie salary cap goes up it can only really benefit wigan. We have an excellent youth system and it is second to none. We would then see alot of our youth playing in the first team which as seen in previous seasons with our 20s being at the top of the tree we have the players there who can make the step up. Wasn't it Lenegans plan all along to have a majority of wigan lads in the side with a couple of overseas players?

We need to identify talent that can be turned into top class first team players, and it doesn't matter if it is from the Wigan area, from other RL areas, from Rugby Union, from football, from athletics, from basketball etc.



It's completely irrelevant what sport they come from, although it's obviously easier from a rugby background. We recently lost a very good player who has got an apprenticeship at a top football club.

Who's that?



Completely agree too!

too true Rogue, it doesn't matter where they come from as long as they are young enough not to have irreversible bad habits/technique and can be moulded into the kind of player that benefits Wigan rugby. We should as a sport look at the Union set up where up to 8 academy trained players have at least £20-30k of their salary not part of the cap when they make the first team...This would mean clubs who train their own youngsters would then still be able to offer them a decent salary once they make the first team instead of having to let them go to other clubs who don't bring on young players

It cheers me up to hear this because even if the stories are exaggerated, I get fet up hearing about how scouts from Sale, Gloucester and Bath are constantly circling around our youngsters.



Let's do it to them for a change.