Quote sergeant pepper="sergeant pepper"I'd have loved him this time last year and certainly instead of the pudding that was Singleton.
Now, we're pretty covered and it's 12 months down the line. I'd have made an argument that, if he'd have come in 23, I'd have him over Thompson. Likewise I'd have had Tom Burgess over both of them.'"
Fair assessment of their playing abilities, but JWH is a quota player, while Thompson and Burgess are both English.
Wigan would have needed to unload a quota player in order to have signed JWH.