Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:39 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

England are training at Robin Park today as a full squad but they have three none playing squad members with them. They are Liam Marshall, Sam Powell and Jake Wardle. They are presumably back up/standby players but I’m putting 2 and 2 together and going with the 5 and saying it’s because the three of them are at their clubs training base.

Tell you what, there ain't half some talent coming to the club over the next few weeks. Radley there today, JWH in a few weeks too. Wish we had a 50 year old, silver tongued Maurice buttering them up.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:44 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Tell you what, there ain't half some talent coming to the club over the next few weeks. Radley there today, JWH in a few weeks too. Wish we had a 50 year old, silver tongued Maurice buttering them up.

I did have a small heart attack when I saw the twitter post about JWH and Bromwich until I saw what it was about

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:54 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Wane letting his Wigan mates stay at home whilst everyone else travels. Typical.

This is clearly the reason Hardaker didn't make the squad, the commute was just too much for him.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:00 pm  

CM Punk wrote:

This is clearly the reason Hardaker didn't make the squad, the commute was just too much for him.

Hardaker was out when he heard they didn’t fly Concorde to Newcastle anymore. The 96 hour sleeper train from Ponte to Newcastle was deemed excessive.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:03 pm  

[Gareth] wrote:

I did have a small heart attack when I saw the twitter post about JWH and Bromwich until I saw what it was about

You aren't the only one.

He'd spend a lot of time in the stands, but my god I'd love to see JWH at Wigan. Good Friday, watching him belt Walmsley around would be worth the 6 weeks ban.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:30 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

You aren't the only one.

He'd spend a lot of time in the stands, but my god I'd love to see JWH at Wigan. Good Friday, watching him belt Walmsley around would be worth the 6 weeks ban.

worth the entrance fee alone

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:31 pm  

NickyKiss wrote: England are training at Robin Park today as a full squad but they have three none playing squad members with them. They are Liam Marshall, Sam Powell and Jake Wardle. They are presumably back up/standby players but I’m putting 2 and 2 together and going with the 5 and saying it’s because the three of them are at their clubs training base. Harry Smith as well. https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL/sta ... 4256226306

NickyKiss wrote: England are training at Robin Park today as a full squad but they have three none playing squad members with them. They are Liam Marshall, Sam Powell and Jake Wardle. They are presumably back up/standby players but I’m putting 2 and 2 together and going with the 5 and saying it’s because the three of them are at their clubs training base. Harry Smith as well. https://twitter.com/WiganWarriorsRL/sta ... 4256226306

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:44 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Undoubtedly.

Also undoubtedly better than any of our current options too.

I'll admit that, I'm not optimistic about our chances should we not sign another centre. It's a glaring weakness, but one we seem to keep repeating. Remember when we signed Hastings and French, but ignored the prop situation. The time we needed a HB and signed Sammut etc.

Time will tell, but after a quick count I can probably name 5 or 6 olayers available who'd have improved us.

We have 1 more centre than we finished last season with and we were not far off, even without another centre I will be very confident we will be in the mix again.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:45 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

England are training at Robin Park today as a full squad but they have three none playing squad members with them. They are Liam Marshall, Sam Powell and Jake Wardle. They are presumably back up/standby players but I’m putting 2 and 2 together and going with the 5 and saying it’s because the three of them are at their clubs training base.

They training there tomorrow? I am at the stadium working so will try and sneak away if they are.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:12 pm  

CobraCraig wrote:

They training there tomorrow? I am at the stadium working so will try and sneak away if they are.

Not sure, just saw the post online from one of the journos. You’d imagine they might be there all week given the facilities.