Wigan Warriors - wiganrugbyfans.com • Re: This mess

I’m not sure how much clearer I can make it that I’m not asking for them to come out and give us some sort of running total as to where we’re up to with the cap or to say this player has gone, so in response we’ve used his cash to upgrade these other players but simply to communicate better and make the signing of juniors bigger news, get contract option take ups in the public domain etc.

Using Liam Byrne as an example. Good young player, promoted to the first team squad this year and I presume he’s now on a full time deal? I say I presume because I don’t recall ever seeing anything official. Does he have a one year deal? A five year deal? A quick google search throws nothing up on it. I recall old press releases in the days of Kev Brown, Luke Robinson, Shaun Briscoe coming through to be first team squad members with background on them, where they’ve come from, amateur clubs, length of contracts etc but now it’s just guesswork. If you keep promoting the stories of these juniors, keep informing people when they sign full time deals, it paints a picture of where the clubs funds are going.