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French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:21 am  
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:26 am  
Not a long enough commitment for me and I’d have looked elsewhere. He’s a joy to watch but we need to move away from this year to year upheaval we’ve got ourselves stuck in.
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:42 am  
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Not a long enough commitment for me and I’d have looked elsewhere. He’s a joy to watch but we need to move away from this year to year upheaval we’ve got ourselves stuck in.


I understand what your saying but we now have 18 months to plan for him not being here rather than 6 which is a plus
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:48 am  
It really does not bode well for the rest of the season.

French out for the season
Field out long term
Manfredi may play but I doubt it will be regularly
Hardaker injured, possibly for the season?
Gildart - who knows?
Marshall just returning from serious injury.

That’s our entire 3/4 line.

Surely we have to get Hank back from loan.
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:52 am  
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I understand what your saying but we now have 18 months to plan for him not being here rather than 6 which is a plus


That’s true I suppose. I’m just a bit fed up with feeling like we’re a stepping stone to the NRL for both homegrown players and now lads who have been out of favour over there. I’m comfortable that some of our academy produced players are going to want to give it a crack but when we’re so open to those lads walking away, I don’t think we can keep adding to that by living year to year with our overseas stars.
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:56 am  
Trainman wrote:
It really does not bode well for the rest of the season.

French out for the season
Field out long term
Manfredi may play but I doubt it will be regularly
Hardaker injured, possibly for the season?
Gildart - who knows?
Marshall just returning from serious injury.

That’s our entire 3/4 line.

Surely we have to get Hank back from loan.


Field back in August.
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:57 am  
NickyKiss wrote:
Not a long enough commitment for me and I’d have looked elsewhere. He’s a joy to watch but we need to move away from this year to year upheaval we’ve got ourselves stuck in.


When he signed the second year was in his favour so nothing really we can do about it.

We’d be foolish to offer him a new deal now until we see how he recovers.

It’s a tough one though as, if he recovers and plays well the rumours about an NRL return will be circulated straight away.

I think if/whenever Wigan have a player of a high level playing well it’s sadly baggage that’s will always be carried by them, even if their is little truth in it.
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:58 am  
It’s a blow that he will miss the season. At a time when we’re struggling to create anything, his individual brilliance was one of only a few chances we had to score. I’m glad he’ll be here next season but I agree with NK, we can’t rely on year to year options. We need a long term recruitment and retention strategy to bring some stability back.
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:08 am  
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When he signed the second year was in his favour so nothing really we can do about it.

We’d be foolish to offer him a new deal now until we see how he recovers.

It’s a tough one though as, if he recovers and plays well the rumours about an NRL return will be circulated straight away.

I think if/whenever Wigan have a player of a high level playing well it’s sadly baggage that’s will always be carried by them, even if their is little truth in it.


Hopefully he recovers well and we can get him tied down longer early next season. I thought he was nailed on to go back to the NRL when watching him at the back end of last season but a couple of things gave me hope we could get him to commit to another 3 or 4 years here. One was just how uncomfortable he looked on the wing early this season and the other is just how strong the fullback position is in the NRL. It seems like every club now has a brilliant fullback and there may only be one or two clubs looking for one. If they don’t fancy him on the wing and he can’t get in at fullback anywhere, we may get that commitment. You’re right that we wouldn’t go any longer at the minute but I do hope it’s something that is possible down the line.
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Re: French out for season : Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:27 am  
Trainman wrote:
It really does not bode well for the rest of the season.

French out for the season
Field out long term
Manfredi may play but I doubt it will be regularly
Hardaker injured, possibly for the season?
Gildart - who knows?
Marshall just returning from serious injury.

That’s our entire 3/4 line.

Surely we have to get Hank back from loan.

Hardaker injured? Have I missed something?

Edit: ignore that. Just read about it on another thread
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