MadDogg: wiggn2: The previous excuses of international money transfers taking a while now surely don't stand up? I understand days or a couple of weeks but not months. I feel for the staff, players and fans. We are very lucky that we have strong ownership. Very awkward situation for the RFL as there is no doubt an obligation to play 6 fixtures a week for Sky so I'm guessing they would be due some cash back if the club were stood down. The integrity of the league has already been damaged as I've said before. There needs to be blame attributed to IMG for this as well. If we have a grading model then these financial issues should have been identified much earlier. Can IMG be blamed? Surely the RFL are the ones who are validating / checking salary cap submissions etc, Yes IMG have implemented the grading structure, but are they receiving data from clubs and checking it? i genuinely dont know but would assume that IMG in conjunction with the RFL have agreed on criteria, and then the RFL validate it? Grading Handbook (Final Version).pdf i've tried to copy the URL but keeps pasting as .pdf

MadDogg: wiggn2: The previous excuses of international money transfers taking a while now surely don't stand up? I understand days or a couple of weeks but not months. I feel for the staff, players and fans. We are very lucky that we have strong ownership. Very awkward situation for the RFL as there is no doubt an obligation to play 6 fixtures a week for Sky so I'm guessing they would be due some cash back if the club were stood down. The integrity of the league has already been damaged as I've said before. There needs to be blame attributed to IMG for this as well. If we have a grading model then these financial issues should have been identified much earlier. Can IMG be blamed? Surely the RFL are the ones who are validating / checking salary cap submissions etc, Yes IMG have implemented the grading structure, but are they receiving data from clubs and checking it? i genuinely dont know but would assume that IMG in conjunction with the RFL have agreed on criteria, and then the RFL validate it? Grading Handbook (Final Version).pdf i've tried to copy the URL but keeps pasting as .pdf

Field starts, Dupree starts, Byrne 18th man, O'Neil Hill on bench everything else as you'd expect

Bewildering that we've not given at least a couple of youngsters a debut in this game. They must be wondering when they will actually get a chance?

Really sloppy start to the game here.

Anyone watching the game back on iPlayer, I urge you to watch on mute. The commentary was utterly embarrassing.

I did wonder who from Wigan upset the commentator - talk about hyper-critical, didn't think Wigan could do any right. The footage was really bad as well though - showing replays of things whilst the game was going on constantly and showing long,long, long views of the coaches (esp Rowley) during game play as well. Really amateur all round.


Game wise Wigan did what was needed some sloppy play at times and some really good play at others and at least two tries chalked off for poor decisions (although the Walters one did loook more than a touch forward).