Quote RICHARD5LEGEND="RICHARD5LEGEND"There are lots of rumours going round about Briers leaving Wire..'"
I believe they're accountants have arranged to replace him with the signings of Cam Smith, Cooper Cronk and Billy Slater. They're throwing in Mathers as a make-weight!
Quote RICHARD5LEGEND="NickyKiss"I'm not quite buying into this panic over a new 9 tbh. I'm a big fan of Tommy Leuluai and believe he'll thrive in the position when he gets in there fulltime and McIlorum will be very good back up if he can stay pretty injury free(a big if I know).
We shouldn't forget that whoever starts at 9 for Wigan next year will have a monster pack infront of them and that will buy us alot more room. We will also have Finch at halfback who should get us moving around the field abit smoother and get our field position better with an improved kicking game.
It's a blow to be losing Riddell and if he were here next year i'd be sat smoking cigars at the prospect of filling our boots but if we go in with Tommy and McIlroum i'm fine with that. It'll be good enough to compete on all fronts again.'"
Completely agree NK, that's what I was meaning in my original post, I think Tommy should be the starting 9 next season and Mickey Mac coming from the bench, I don't think the right signing is out there for us, we don't want another stop-gap signing and I would rather we spend money on tying up some of the younger lads like Tuson & Farrell.
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