Been there, done that and bought the T-shirt that says 'NOT GOOD ENOUGH'.

So rather than go out and find a young british centre with the potential to be good enough, you look to the NZ reserve grades?

Well we have just announced the signings of 3 Welsh youngsters including an 18 year old centre. So unless this rumour about Gelling is true than we are looking at and have found a young British centre.



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So with their recruitment presumably complete Wigan have now signed 5 foreign players who are not eligible for the England national team that creates the cap exemptions in the first place.



Can the Wigan fans on here not see that this is going outside of the spirit of the cap exemptions?

So why do you need a 21 year old 'project' from the NZ reserve grades aswell?



We should be importing players we cant produce, the best of the best. Players who add to the quality of the league. We have enough reserve graders and 'projects' over here its a failure of youth development to have to import them.

Now were being criticised for signing Welsh players?

Chris Flannery played for the Roosters for years.



If he was any good, they wouldn't have sacked him for a prank gone wrong - they would have "rehabilitated" him.

I agree, but we havent actually signed him, like alot of rumours it might be completely untrue.

Because that worked so well for Carney....

at least they tried with Carney i.e. they wanted to keep him, despite numerous indiscretions.



With this lad, it was 1 mistake and out of the door - leading to the assumption that they didnt want to keep him, because he wasnt that good.

I agree they tried harder because of how good he was, be Gelling was part of that group of young players who were an absolute disgrace and caused problem after problem. Quite alot of them needed to go regardless of how good they were. And it wasnt just one mistake, despite what you may have read.

We're also basically funding the Welsh Rugby League now.