Agreed, Slater is outstanding, but he's a little $thithouse at times to





Dugan is a fantastic player, and is going to be a real superstar - the Aussies really are so blessed in the backs it's silly.

I hope folau goes to union, cant do with playing aus against inglis and folau especially with our centres. Infact folau, come to wigan, then you cant play for aus, and do us some good aswell

Folau is an interesting one, all the physical talent in the world but his career really seemed to have stalled after leaving the Storm. Hopefully the Folau from this weekends game (much more like his best) will be the one seen more and more of, bad news for England though if he does. He really should stay in the NRL though and not get tempted by the AFL or Union $$$$ if he wants to achieve his potential.



Currently i'm more terrified at the prospect of Idris achieving his potential. A potential future centre pairing of Inglis and Idris is a nightmare prospect for England. Not counting Hayne, Justin Hodges, Willie Tonga, etc etc, they really are spoiled for choices.

Lachlan Coote isn't doing bad either at the moment.



So jealous of their backs at the moment, and I must agree Idris is going to be something, how can he have that pace with his size?

Was a joy to watch the likes of Slater, GI, Smith, Lockyer, JT, Hayne etc on our home ground. If only they were wearing cherry and white

Thats because he's an arrogant little s***, but one heck of rugby player

Do you think we stand any chance of signing one of the top quality aussies,considering the recent fall out from Melbourne.If anybody is available surely the link with MM and the fact we are playing so well must make us a more lucrative prospect than other S.L teams.and if they are available do we want them or do we stick with the homegrown.For a youth player at wigan at the minute must be pretty exciting to have a man with the caliber of MM coaching the fitness regime of Mark Bitcom and the teachings of the Wigan way from Mr Wane some of our youngsters could be taken from really good players. to the next level into tomorrows superstars..hopefully in a few years there could be a thread on an aussie forum talking about some of our players in the same respect as one Billy Slater on here.

We dont stand a chance of signing any of them, even with MM

Sadly nobody does, and never really has. Even the days of Meninga, Lewis, Kenny, Sterling were against the backdrop of it being the Aussie close season. Fact is the top Aussie players won't give up rep football, earn more money over there, have miles better lifestyle, are real celebrities, get taken seriously by the media and generally view their competition as superior.



It's a real shame, but it's never going to happen.



Our best bet is always going to be either youngsters (increasingly difficult as the best i.e. Dugan, Widdop etc have space made for them), Old timers, or 'fringe players'. A =#FF0000slightly better bet is NZ players, but only from the rep football perspective, the rest of the points apply just as much to them, hence while we'll never see a Benji Marshall, Keiran Foran, Isaac Luke, Adam Blair etc in their prime either.



Losing Sam Burgess was a bad thing for Super League to (though probably a good thing for England) and I hope for the standards of our competition it doesn't start a trend.



Often wonder what things would look like had News Limited won the Super League war and we'd had the proposed ESL v ASL play off type things.

I dont think it is a bad thing for super league, the aussies are actually beginning to look at us, as though we produce some quality youngsters which we do

. Look at young elliot whitehead, i dont think he would of got the chance to play, if burgess was still at bradford?



I think its good, it shows that the youth of the game is actually going somewhere.

Not nearly far enough, if your thinking it will help us against the Australians



Its like Usain Bolt vs the other runners, even on an off day they will probably beat us, if they are on form they will run away with it every time.

The way the Aussies look at us is probably the same way we look at France, they always give us a game and are a team of good players but they will never beat us.