gpartin posted:
bertina posted:
jinkin jimmy posted:
Give him a chance!!
Dead right JJ. Sometimes the club just can't win
they sign a "big name" and they are blowing all the salary cap. They sign a British lad on the fringes of the GB team and they are slated before he's even got his Wigan jersey on. :conf:
Spot on, I think Wigan are doing the right thing. My fear however that they are doing it not because they are being sensible but because they genuinely can't afford to do anything else. If that makes sense?
I think it's more likely they're doing it to re-balance the budget of the team.
For too long we've had mega-earners and poverty-row guys in the same squad, and it hasn't made for harmony. I also think we're trying to channel more cash to our U21s, who, by all accounts, were ready to walk out on us until they heard that a new administration was coming in.
It may be painful for us, but though I agree in principle with those who feel we'll only improve by signing better players than we've currently got (I've said this myself on a number of occasions), we won't necessarily have to got for the hugely costly mega-stars to pull this off. There are decent players around who won't be massively expensive (though I will admit that Coley, on his own, won't satisfy me in this respect).
I'm assuming David Hodgson is another casualty of this policy, because no way is he worth the money some punters have claimed he was asking.