Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:13 am  

Surely we have cap space with the number of players leaving,and I imagine Bowen is one of if not the top earner at the club.i know contracts have been extended with higher wages being paid elsewhere but surely we are going to be way under the cap in 2016?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:17 am  

CobraCraig wrote:

He was signed before the Marquee ruling was in place.

IL confirmed on backchat that Sam is our Marquee signing. Sam was originally signed as part of the cap but it was a 'squeeze'. Now IL has cap room, more so for improving existing players contracts/promoting players to the first team rather than bringing in new signings.

Shame, would love to see Hurrell at Wigan, I think he would be fantastic in SL, exactly what we need.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:22 pm  

I asked Warriors fans about Konnie on an NRL board I am a regular poster on. This was the response I got:


Please, take him.

He's constantly being bounced to the Resies as punishment for error prone play, weak defense and slumps in form.

He gets promoted out of the Resies due to no other reason than head coaches are, by nature, perpetual optimists.

He's kind of a Chrisy Sandow in the respect. Of course Sandow is in the UK already because he knows all the NRL coaches have finally worked out the Sandow doesn't really give a rats booty.

That day too will dawn soon for Konnie.

He's also quite full of himself off field with bags of adverse publicity.


Personally I'd be happy to see him here, though. I pointed out that I was confident Wigan wouldn't tolerate any bad off-field behaviour.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:45 pm  

Those reasons listed above may well be why there not been any rumours that we are after him.

If as previously suggested if he's big mates with Sam then the club will have head's up on him some time ago. They'll probably have asked Madge about him too.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Sep 27, 2015 4:33 pm  

On the subject of Sam T.

@samtomkins1
It's been too long @NandosUK

Seems to be back in UK, i think..

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Sep 27, 2015 6:39 pm  

Wigan Peer wrote:

On the subject of Sam T.

@samtomkins1
It's been too long @NandosUK

Seems to be back in UK, i think..

He was at the game on Friday

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:34 pm  

I see that HH has signed for Leigh. So he completed just 2 years of a 4 year contract. Still only 29 he is now playing Championship rugby for the foreseeable future, what a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid decision it was to join Salford and leave Wigan from a rugby point of view.

Hope the money compensates for ruining his career.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:45 pm  

Aboveusonlypie wrote:

I see that HH has signed for Leigh. So he completed just 2 years of a 4 year contract. Still only 29 he is now playing Championship rugby for the foreseeable future, what a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid decision it was to join Salford and leave Wigan from a rugby point of view.

Hope the money compensates for ruining his career.

How has he ruined his career?, it was probably a lifelong dream to play for home town club, he is also injury prone, he is not getting younger so why not go and play a few seasons in a less intense league, at the end of the day he won silverware with Wigan, he's fulfilled a boyhood dream, he's made a nice wedge and he's prolonging his career, he knew his time was up at Wigan and left on a high

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:45 pm  

The Mustard Tiger wrote:

How has he ruined his career?, it was probably a lifelong dream to play for home town club, he is also injury prone, he is not getting younger so why not go and play a few seasons in a less intense league, at the end of the day he won silverware with Wigan, he's fulfilled a boyhood dream, he's made a nice wedge and he's prolonging his career, he knew his time was up at Wigan and left on a high

He wasn't born in this country.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Mon Sep 28, 2015 2:09 pm  

proper-shaped-balls wrote:

He wasn't born in this country.

Did i say he was?