Re: Walsh : Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:46 pm  

yogi bear wrote:

Yes - would've been nice to keep them 2 - certainly Graham.
You also fail to mention people like Lyon, Gidley, Soliola, Barrett, Renouf, Vainakolo, etc etc etc who have come over during the confines of salary cap and ripped it up. If this rule is to be used then it should be used to entice that calibre of player to SL. Or as mentioned - keeping hold of top quality if you're lucky enough to produce somebody special. Not just top up the salary of the mediocre currently on show.

Also you can get lucky and pick a player up who no one fancied. George Carmont being a prime example, probably the best value for money overseas player I have seen at Wigan.

Re: Walsh : Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:27 pm  

yogi bear wrote:

Other than Roby and Walmsley- we currently haven't got anybody who NRL would be interested in and both are signed up relatively long term.
But realistically what is Roby earning ???? Possibly £200k - so making him our Marquee in reality only gives us £100k to spread around keeping others happy.
May help to keep Savelio and gone towards Walsh - but is that what this Marquee rule was brought in for ?
Not in my opinion - I thought the idea was to bring in some top class talent to a very average league. I'd love to see a Sam Burgess back where he belongs in an England RL shirt

Yes you have, Percival. By the way contracts normally count for nothing.

Re: Walsh : Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:33 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

It's also worth noting that Walsh had an NRL offer (I don't know who for) which he turned down.

Or was the offer withdrawn for fitness reasons.