Quote NickyKiss="NickyKiss"We also have an issue with losing players to other superleague clubs as well having lost Hansen and now Goulding and probably Taylor who are three players I'd still like in our squad. We have also lost Green and whilst you always accept it because he's from overseas clubs like Leeds and Wire have managed to hold on to sought after Aussies players like Delaney and Joel Monaghan.
I full agree that you're going to lose the odd one, that's only natural but you can't lose the amount of players we have without you having an issue. To lose them to Union/NRL is a nuisance but understandable but as the biggest club in the UK and current double holders I don't expect to be losing lads to Hull and Salford especially when we must have salary cap space lying around from those departures to the NRL.
When Goulding goes next year we'll have about 2 or 3 players left from our Grand Final team of 2010 and maybe 3 or 4 from the CC win of 2011. That's scary and in a couple of years we'll be saying similar about the double winning team of 2013. We've proved that we can cope with a large turnover of players once from 2010-2013 for example but that won't continue to be the case I'm afraid especially if the juniors start getting picked off as rumoured (with moves in place for Sutton and possibly Burgess as well as rumoured interest in Hampshire).'"
The thing is with the new TV deal every Super League club will now be spending up to the cap too. A £70,000 a year player at Wigan will be able to go to Salford, Hull KR, Hull FC etc and be one of their marquee players and get £100,000+. This will certainly have more of an impact on us than just what we have seen in previous years and will mean we wont just be losing our top stars but players across the board.
