primrose-n-blue posted:
Wigan held contracts and chose to wrap them up...period.
And this is the point you can't seem to grasp. With the exception of Davico for medical reasons, Wigan haven't changed anyone else's contract.
Betts' contract was as Assistant Coach, and still is so Wigan have changed nothing. He has never held a contract as Head Coach so how can the club have "wrapped up" such a contract?
Do conditioners have contracts, or are they open-ended things like many of us will have, to be terminated with a certain notice period on either side? Nigel Ashley-Jones has exercised his right to terminate his contract, Wigan have done nothing as far as has been made public. If NAJ and Milly can't work together then that's between themselves rather than the club.
Old Macdonald's contract was held by Leeds, and Huddersfield made a deal with Leeds to take over that contract. Wigan have done nothing in this case as the contract was not theirs to do anything with.
I was led to believe (until he reappeared to sign up to play next year) that Davico had retired for medical reasons following the recurrence of his injury, and so Wigan, the player and the respective insurance companies will have reached an agreement to write-off the contract. This, however, had no impact on SL this season at all as the player took no part in the season so isn't really relevant to anything except that many clubs have released injured players in scenarios like this and have replaced those players. You lot haven't released anyone this season AFAIK.
The only other contract that has been changed this year was Farrell's, and no-one can say that was for any reason other than at the player's own request. Have Wood or Appo asked for a release to accommodate Johns? I somehow doubt it.
It's a minor point in your overall argument, but it would be nice for you to admit you were wrong in suggesting Wigan had terminated 4 contracts this year as a way of justifying your lot (presumably to mean overseas quota) having to terminate one contract to allow Johns to come to the UK.
I've said elsewhere, I don't like this bringing in players just for the play-offs (and said so when St Helens did the same thing 2-3 years ago) but it's within the current rules so nothing should be done this year. I hope there's a bit of a review before next season, but I suspect the publicity-hungry league will instead look at the amount of column inches bringing Johns to the UK is generating and allow it to continue, even if no UK clubs are able to bring such a big name along in the future.
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and as we said all 4 left by there own choice now we have proved our selfs right lets put this 1 to bed ,
well spotted geoff how good of warrington to prove to him 22 is 22 and 23 is 23,looking at them yesterday they could lose every game they have left and wed could replace them in playoffs 