It's a smokescreen. The real target is Lionel Messi.

Stef and family there again last night

Isn't Liam Foran more of a Centre than a Half?

Foran is a 7.

My mistake, must have just seen him play centre at Manly as a stand in

What about Sneyd? There was some comment about not playing Evalds as a "local" lad and now Sneyd was MOM in League Express will not play at 7 on Friday? He produced two pieces of magic for tries, put in some other deft kicks and generally played well.

What we need is a general to organise the team on the pitch, some big go forward forwards and a proven goalkicker.

I've got to say I wasn't a massive Sneyd fan up until last night. Thought he had a poor opening 20 but so did the rest of the team, after that he was fantastic!! For Friday maybe him at 6 with Foran 7 & McGoldrick replacing R.Williams at centre or Murphy at Full Back if Evalds isn't giventhe nod??

I can't see Wigan letting Tomkins go as they'd need to use Murphy at full back







Just read that Ben Barba's in all sorts of trouble in Australia might be worth looking if he's available as he'd be just as prolific as Tomkins.

Ben Barba is currently the best fullback in the world IMO. It would be an absolutely outstanding signing, it's obvious he needs a fresh start aswell so it's not totally unbelievable that it could happen.

It wouldn't be the first time an outstanding young talent from the NRL has come over here to escape the media spotlight in Australia. If he has gone off the rails a move to Superleague would give him a new start and an opportunity to sort himself out.

Plus, we're all about the fresh starts these days with Mr Gleeson and Longy. Would be a better signing imo.

On a serious note, the main problem you are going to have is that if you manage to tempt a big name like Tomkins to your club, they are going to have to be massively overpaid in order to just get them to join, so taking an unrealistic chunk of your Salary Cap.



We had similar at Wire, when we signed Langer and then had to stack the team with some right rubbish around him...





At the moment, your problem is that you don't exactly have much to entice a big name player, bar the Doctor's hefty wallet - Your crowds are pretty dire and though you might claim a big signing would boost this, its fair to say that you also claimed the new ground would increase crowds too, yet it obviously hasn't worked.



I think you'd probably be wiser going the Widnes route of steady improvement, but I suppose its the Doctor's prerogative to wave his wad about??.....Personally, I think your best bet would be to get a big name coach and build from there - I think a top class coach would attract the players as much as earning big cash in front of an empty ground would.