Taxi for Zak !

Wigan Charirman in May 2018 "My team at Wigan will manage, mentor and test him through this period of rehabilitation and development and, hopefully, guide him back to being one of the best players in Super League.”

Rickets too

So that’s why the ladies from Castleford have bow legs...

If only he had, they'd be no need to discuss him now.

Were "his team" the Tomkins brothers and Bateman?

What a div https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45822780

What a div https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45822780

It'll be intesresting to see how Wigan react. I suspect they'll do nothing much this season as it'd be too late to look to make any changes. It really does make a nonsense of the suggestion that somehow they will 'look after' Hardaker in some way better than anyone else can. People like him just generally never learn, and he most likely regards any discussions and undertakings about his behaviour as a huge source of amusement when he's drunk. Sadly sports of all kinds indulge 'stars' that way, so he'll most likely end up never having really learned his lesson.

Everything about this is just such a shame.

A talented guy who could have been anything he wanted in RL including rich, relative to Joe bloggs but not like footballer standard. Idolised. Name in the history books. Things fans would give anything for.

And being a sports star I fully expect he will have had all sorts of help made available to him to 'help him cope' with whatever it is people think he needs help to cope with whereas Joe bloggs who is struggling with mental health has to wade through the quagmire of public service help and won't have access to the expensive end of what can be available.

Of course none of that matters when you are ed up driving a car with no insurance or mot having being up for assault and God knows what else before.

I have so much sympathy for those that need help but none for those that continuously throw it back at people and don't take responsibility.

Rant over.

He’s never taken responsibility for anything and he never will.

James Child incident - not my fault that word means something else.
Student incident - not my fault, few beers and the lad started on him.
Cas incident- I was drunk - didn’t know what I was doing
Drink driving - I was “protecting” my golf clubs.

Until he actually admits to himself he has a problem, nothing will change. Sure he’ll say he learned lessons, made mistakes, grown up etc in public, but he doesn’t actually mean it. There’s always been someone to wipe up his mess for him, smarten him up and have someone with a nice fat contract outside the door saying “we can change him” when in reality the only person on this earth who CAN make that call won’t, mainly because he doesn’t have to OR want to.

I really fear for this lad, I honestly do.

I think it’d be in the best interest of the game for him not to be involved in it anymore.

Unfortunately without the day to day routine of a pro sportsman I don’t think he’d cope at all.

No one in real life could stand the constant cry’s for attention.

I would happily wager a months salary that he will do the same at Wigan and embarrass them
All I hope is that when returns to Leeds and Cas he gets to vitriolic reception and a bit extra from the big lads

We tried that when he came back with Cas but he ran rings round us along with the other 16. We just have to hope that he's been taking dietary advice from Ferres when he been off, so he's lost a yard of pace and they can properly line him up.

Interesting watching the “ Shaun Wane” special last night,can,t see how Hardaker would fit into the “Wigan Culture”