Local sports writers - do they do their research!! : Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:44 pm  

According to Phil Wilkinson in tonight's Wigan Observer :-


"One of the lesser-known clauses of the salary cap rules is that for every player who has been in the first team for more than 10 years, only half their salary counts on the £1.65 million wage bill.
That rewards the likes of Kieron Cunningham, Paul Wellens (St. Helens), Paul Deacon (Bradford) and Lee Briers (Warrington) for their service, while also giving their clubs a greater incentive to keep them."

Absolute rubbish.

The rule is that the clubs get a £50K dispensation against the cap for a player who has completed 10 years at the club, but it is limited to one player per club.

So for Saints they can have in effect £50K extra to spend in lieu of either part of Wellens or Longs salaries.
They cannot claim £50K for each.

Lazy journalism.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:49 pm  

Course they research. Message boards and Wikipedia mainly!

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:54 pm  

To be fair to Wilkinson he's normally pretty good and miles ahead of Aspinall in terms of breaking stories.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:57 pm  

Do they do their research?

Yes...As long as it involves Micky Higham.

Everything else comes off this messageboard.

Wigan media is starved of a top, in depth, opinionated, solely Rugby League journalist.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:59 pm  

Wigan media is starved of a top, in depth, opinionated solely Rugby League journalist.

only if you exclude this site as wigan media [/quote]

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:03 pm  

Alex BP' wrote:

Do they do their research?

Yes...As long as it involves Micky Higham.

Everything else comes off this messageboard.

Wigan media is starved of a top, in depth, opinionated, solely Rugby League journalist.

Bilko?

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:04 pm  

florimo wrote:

only if you exclude this site as wigan media

I have.

I mean Wigan Evening Post/Observer/WiganToday.net

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:43 pm  

Alex BP' wrote:

:lol: I have.

I mean Wigan Evening Post/Observer/WiganToday.net

This the same WEP that apparently had Wigan "throwing away a 12-10 lead" against Hull

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:08 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

This the same WEP that apparently had Wigan "throwing away a 12-10 lead" against Hull

The glory days of the WEP and the WO being powerhouses of Wigan RL knowledge and fanaticism seems to be well behind us. I'd imagine that many of their desks are now peopled by callow, pimply faced youths who think exclusively in terms of blue and white.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:09 pm  

Cruncher wrote:

The glory days of the WEP and the WO being powerhouses of Wigan RL knowledge and fanaticism seems to be well behind us. I'd imagine that many of their desks are now peopled by callow, pimply faced youths who think exclusively in terms of blue and white.

Cracking job for Conroy then.