Thanks for your opinion Rogues. You may go now.

Just lay off the whisky, it's a bit early for it yet.

Never touch it on school nights.

I prefer to state facts about Stains fans and their propensity to hate everything to do with Wigan RL.

You, it would appear are equally as keen to defend them.

I call it as I see it and BL is in general fair, a lot more than many so called fans on here.

Isn't them plural?

It is. Well done.

Thank you.
It's always good to be correct.

What's all this to do with Tim Smith?

Not sure, ask your mate.

Too true . I don't think he'll ever be good enough to hold down a regular first team spot for you. Hock, O'Loughlin are already better than him, and for me Mossop looks like he'll be a decent strike player from the second row, if it turns out that is the case, then he'll supplement the other 2 far better than Hansen ever will.




Of course, in a similar vein I pretty much ignore what you have to say on a regular basis

Only on video .

Anyway I'll leave this now lol, bar this on topic comment. I don't really follow the NRL, so I'm going off his performances for you lot, but IMO Tim Smith has shown nothing to say that he's any good.

I am not being offensive. It is just my opinion that your suggestions that umpteen players in our sqaud are not good enough for a winning team (Hansen being one) IS rubbish. The salary cap virtually guarantees you will have what you might consider sub standard players.

Players like Hansen are fine. What we are lacking is some truly class players in key positions. Fielden was supposed to be one but isn't. We have a compromise at full back, The new hooker is a disappointment, the half back situation is not sorted out and our 13 is really a 2nd row.

In fact are making compromises or have problems in the key positions of the half backs, full back , loose forward and hooker. And we all know we need at least one top class prop.

In the era of the salary cap it is IMO possible to get those key positions sorted out but Wigan's problem is they have not. But once they are sorted out then you can't expect mega stars elsewhere in the side.

This is where Hansen comes in. With the key positions occupied by class players Hansen would be talked of in the same terms as Mick Cassidy.

It remains to be seen how the younger players will mature but Hansen can hack it on a weekly basis in SL. Last season I am pretty sure he averaged virtually exactly the same tackles per game as Lockers but missed fewer tackles, made fewer errors and gave away fewer penalties in absolute terms never mind average per game than Lockers despite playing 12 more games. He also scored 6 tries to 1 which is virtually double the average of Lockers last season. What does he have to do to prove his worth?

Or is my comparison with Lockers flawed because you don't rate Lockers either?

Dave