butt monkey posted:
Personally, I would NOT spend the cap money on any-one if the quality players are not available.
In which case Wigan would be unlikely to be able to fulfil their fixtures next season if only a few injuries occurred.
At the moment we have a squad of 19 players who have had 1st team experience and I include Hill and Tomkins in that figure. They are:
Richards, Calderwood, Bailey, Goulding, Colbon, Barrett, Leuluai, Fielden, Feca, Prescott, O'Carroll,
Higham, McIlurom, Hock, Hansen, Coley, O'Loughlin, Hill and Tomkins.
Given that 19 includes Prescott, Goulding, O'Carroll, Colbon, Tomkins, Hill and McIllorum our first 17 is going to have at least
five players who under normal circumstances you would not expect to be regular 1st team players given their experience.
If we add Flannagan, Coyle and Kavanagh that gives us a squad of 22.
That is neither large enough nor experienced enough to compete.
Somehow IL has got to make that £140K stretch to at least three experienced players.
So it isn't a matter of not spending the money we have because the players won't be good enough. We have no alternative to recruit the best we can get for the money we can spend,
Dave