Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:35 pm  

dubairl wrote:

are you really saying you would want hock back? lol

Haha not really, but I wouldn't say no to Rangi Chase in our halves considering we currently have the creativity of a dead slug there

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:41 pm  

I wonder if we have taken a fee for Hock?

It would seem strange to let him sign for Salford without some fee involved especially when you consider there was a fee involved with his collapsed move to the Eels.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:44 pm  

jonh wrote:

I wonder if we have taken a fee for Hock?

It would seem strange to let him sign for Salford without some fee involved especially when you consider there was a fee involved with his collapsed move to the Eels.

Phil Wilkinson (Wigan Observer editor) said on Twitter Wigan had been paid a 6 figure sum by Salford.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:03 pm  

Phil is usaully not far away from what's going on.
So Hock's signing for Salford and not going on loan!
Then it is Goodbye Gareth!

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:17 pm  

Finally rid. Cash in the bank.

Move on.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:31 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Finally rid. Cash in the bank.

Move on.

Tend to agree with you.

He is an exceptional talent but not the aptitude to be the best. One of the players who in 10 years will realise that he just wasted the best part of his prime. Good luck to him in Salford and i hope it works out fro him a great player to watch when on fire.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:15 pm  

Last Son of Wigan wrote:

Sam Tomkins, the Anakin Skywalker of Rugby. He's been given everything by RL, they changed the salary cap rules granting him a massive contract, gets his own TV show on sky tv and segment on another sky sports how. Clearly painted as the 'golden boy' of league, and yet he comes outs with negative flippant comments about RL, if the golden boy calls the sport which has made him, what's left for us?
We are constantly fighting a battle to positively promote RL, this was a kick in the nuts from Sam, wheather he meant it or not.

So yes he might want to play Union or the NRL, fair enough, but please Sam, conduct your requests or future plans behind closed doors, and not at the cost of the sport which constantly does all it can to promote you.

Is this isn't a just an issue for Wigan, but for RL. Furthermore something needs to be done about his current situation at Wigan, I understand the idea of not announcing him signing for NZW, if he has, but a 'no comment' from the club policy is too old-fashioned. With social media people talk, rumours and 'private deals' are quickly discovered and passed around online, it's about time the club recognised the current climate and did something about this situation, with Sam's comments to boot, it leaves an uneasy feeling with the fans.

Additionally there is another angle to this, perhaps Sam was firing a 'Media warning shot' to English RL, 'treat players better, do more or else we will find work elsewhere, NRL or Union', if so I admire his balls, but all he's done is fed the Union boys a meal right out of the mouths of those who look after him and pay his wages.

Couldn't agree more with this.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:47 pm  

Bill Sonny wrote:

Haha not really, but I wouldn't say no to Rangi Chase in our halves considering we currently have the creativity of a dead slug there

It wouldn't make a difference. We play to structures, Chase would be told to play the same structures and the outcome would be the same. Smith and Green can be creative, but it's not our style.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:59 pm  

I notice Briscoe wasn't among the Salford signings there. Looks like either us or Leeds then eh?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:06 pm  

Dai Jones wrote:

I notice Briscoe wasn't among the Salford signings there. Looks like either us or Leeds then eh?

Don't rule Salford out yet, 2 more massive signings to come according to martin gleeson.