ian.birchall posted:
Wake up DaveO and smell the roses. Radlinski and Farrell are certainly north of £200k since I do not suppose that their wages went down after the RFL stopped paying their contribution when they thought the Rugger Buggers were no longer after RL players.
Perhaps time to reassess that policy.
It i scommonknowledge that Farrell signed a contract worth a million quid over 6 years. That is £167K a year.
IMO it was a smart move on his part. Most players won't earn a million quid over six years of an RL career no matter who they are because they will have had two or three sepeerate contracts over that period each at different levels of pay. They may have a couple of seasons on top wages but leading up to that and then after it, their contracts won't be worth as much.
Look at Craig Smith. Reportedlt on £250K a year but that lasted two years and then a big drop to stay.
I haven't seen any information anywhere other than speculation from fans to contradict the frequent comments in the press about Farrell's 1 millio pound contract with the club contract.
As to Radlinski no one knows what happened after the money form the RFL dried up. It does not follow that the club took over the payments. It was a seperate pot of money and if Rads and Cunningham at Saints (who also got it) recieved, say, £100K, to stay that season there is no reason to thiunk Wigan and Saints just decided to add that to their existing contract once the RFL stopped funding it.
Saints have Long, Sculthorpe and Cunningham with the latter as I said also in receipt of the club GB money form the RFL Rads got. These three players wages combined will easily exceed what Rads and Farrell's combined wages are.
If they can afford those three, we can afford Rads and Farrell.
Or is someone else on a huge salary no one ever talks about? People always point the finger at these two players when saying we pay too much to our top players. Well what about Newton, Seu Seu and Vaikeli?
Newton is a GB international and as for the two Kiwi's the club has a bit of a repuation for making very high offers to overseas players.
Dave