Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:32 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Nathan Ash is from New Zealand, but I don't count him as he has come through their academy from being about 15, just as Hansen has been at Wigan since he was 13.

Aged 17 if you believe Wikipedia, so therefore he's a foreigner in my book.

Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:39 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Nathan Ash is from New Zealand, but I don't count him as he has come through their academy from being about 15, just as Hansen has been at Wigan since he was 13.

Do Wigan allow their players to continue playing at their Amateur Clubs, because I'm pretty sure I played against Hansen when he was about 16 at Folly Lane?

Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:13 pm  

JLM23 wrote:

Do Wigan allow their players to continue playing at their Amateur Clubs, because I'm pretty sure I played against Hansen when he was about 16 at Folly Lane?

I think it would depend on whether he had been offered a professional contract at this point. If he hadn't, then he would be allowed to. If he had been, then he I doubt he would have played.

Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:26 pm  

My first recollection of Hansen was about 10 years ago in a very good Wigan U17's side that won the Grand Final by a big margin v Hull.
Also in that side was Kevin Brown, David Allen, Bob Beswick, Bryn Hargreaves, Paul and Andy Ballard and the outstanding Chris Melling.

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Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:15 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

My first recollection of Hansen was about 10 years ago in a very good Wigan U17's side that won the Grand Final by a big margin v Hull.
Also in that side was Kevin Brown, David Allen, Bob Beswick, Bryn Hargreaves, Paul and Andy Ballard and the outstanding Chris Melling.

I always had high hopes for Allen. Whenever I saw him play he always seemed to have a bit of class about him and reminded me of Sculthorpe.

Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:39 pm  

Pemps wrote:

I always had high hopes for Allen. Whenever I saw him play he always seemed to have a bit of class about him and reminded me of Sculthorpe.

Danny I presume!

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Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:48 pm  

THELAST3YARDS wrote:

Danny I presume!

No. He seemed to have really good feet for a back row forward. I was later told that his head wasn't right to fulfil his potential.

Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:28 pm  

Pemps wrote:

:lol:

No. He seemed to have really good feet for a back row forward. I was later told that his head wasn't right to fulfil his potential.

Yeah, copped a drugs ban about 5 years back, didn't he?

Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:52 pm  

Fieldheadrhino wrote:

Aged 17 if you believe Wikipedia, so therefore he's a foreigner in my book.

Nuff said

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Re: 13 players out of Saturdays 19 man squad : Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:41 pm  

Geoff wrote:

Yeah, copped a drugs ban about 5 years back, didn't he?

Yeah but he's back at Widnes now.