Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 8:36 am  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

Do they? (Part 2)

I'd imagine Hastings and Bateman are both currently marquee, but Burgess only agreed to leave Wigan back in Feb 21, so presumably they were paying Bateman, Hastings and Burgess at that point and were under the cap? Bateman signed for Wigan in July last year so I assume they must have some cap space available, I dont think anyone of any significance has been signed since Burgess left have they?

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 8:38 am  

Alffi_7 wrote:

I'd imagine Hastings and Bateman are both currently marquee, but Burgess only agreed to leave Wigan back in Feb 21, so presumably they were paying Bateman, Hastings and Burgess at that point and were under the cap? Bateman signed for Wigan in July last year so I assume they must have some cap space available, I dont think anyone of any significance has been signed since have they?

They have Hardaker, French, Hastings, Bateman and Field. All will be on big money. However it seems Williams would only cost 75k towards the cap because he is 'club trained'.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 8:47 am  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

They have Hardaker, French, Hastings, Bateman and Field. All will be on big money. However it seems Williams would only cost 75k towards the cap because he is 'club trained'.

Yes but they had all those players before Burgess retired, so surely they were able to fit them all plus a marquee salary in Burgess, under the cap........ Unless when Hastings signed his extension in Nov 20 they already knew Burgess would play no part in 2021.


Williams would only count for £75k, but that would mean one of Hastings or Bateman would have their full salary counting on the cap as they would use marquee for Williams I imagine as would get the most dispensation from it.

If they didnt have cap space they could release Hastings early, Raiders or Wests would be interested i'm sure. Austin would probably need to be released to another SL club - Leigh perhaps?

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 8:48 am  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

Would Raiders not want Austin back? More chance of us releasing him early than Widdop I'd have thought.

Maybe?

Widdop has a better all round game and could slot straight into the Canberra team to replace Williams immediately.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 9:32 am  

Alffi_7 wrote:

Yes but they had all those players before Burgess retired, so surely they were able to fit them all plus a marquee salary in Burgess, under the cap........ Unless when Hastings signed his extension in Nov 20 they already knew Burgess would play no part in 2021.


Williams would only count for £75k, but that would mean one of Hastings or Bateman would have their full salary counting on the cap as they would use marquee for Williams I imagine as would get the most dispensation from it.

If they didnt have cap space they could release Hastings early, Raiders or Wests would be interested i'm sure. Austin would probably need to be released to another SL club - Leigh perhaps?

The Burgess money was used on the French and Hastings extensions according to the Wigan forum.

Interesting that Williams has come out on Twitter and said he asked to be released at the end of the season and Canberra have just done it now and he knew nothing about it and so he doesn't have a club at the minute.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 11:11 am  

Going off the BBC report there would appear two, very different, sides to this story https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57238671

Going off the BBC report there would appear two, very different, sides to this story https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57238671

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 11:12 am  

Lord Tony Smith wrote:

The Burgess money was used on the French and Hastings extensions according to the Wigan forum.

Interesting that Williams has come out on Twitter and said he asked to be released at the end of the season and Canberra have just done it now and he knew nothing about it and so he doesn't have a club at the minute.

"Some" of Burgess money was used on Hastings/French but not all

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 11:17 am  

Garden decking man was spouting off, aimed at Wilkin, that he had the money for two import signings available but nobody to spend it on. Throw it all at Williams for the rest of this season on a short term deal with Leigh and Williams can then go where he was planning to anyway next year.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 12:00 pm  

Get him signed for 2022 and get him on loan for this season.

Re: George Williams. : Tue May 25, 2021 12:06 pm  

Jukesays wrote:

"Some" of Burgess money was used on Hastings/French but not all

Plus Joe Burgess, Morgan Escare, Joe Greenwood, Ben Flower and a few of the lower squad number players all left.