*Cough* "Snap the pole" *Cough*

in your opinion, he's by far the better rounded player and offers a ton more defensively and in attack I'd still take Hardaker.

Then I suggest you haven’t seen enough Barba.

The stats alone show the gulf between the two.

You’ve got to be joking? I don’t think any one else would be idiotic enough to share the same view. Hardaker may be marginally better defensively (its a myth that Barba is poor defensively, it’s not his strongest area but he’s more than competent) but the difference in attack is ridiculous. The WHOLE of last season (in SL only) Hardaker managed 11 tries and 18 assists, in HALF of this season Barba has managed 15 tries and 17 assists, that represents a huge gulf in quality. Needn’t mention that Barba is a Dally M, NRL Grand Final winning fullback, Hardaker got moved out to centre and Penrith weren’t exactly bothered he was leaving. Hardakers a very good player but some of the opinions people have on him are over the top. You’d have to be insane to choose Hardaker over Barba.

Both are fantastic at finding their way to the line.

I wouldn’t call 11 tries ‘fantastic’.

WHOOSH!!!

Oh dear.

Yip you missed it

Zak must have had a big wardrobe for all the rugby shirts he had as a kid. So far, he’s been a childhood supporter or Featherstone, Leeds and Wigan. I’m almost offended he didn’t claim to be a childhood Cas supporter when he joined us.

He’s too stupid to maintain the story he told the UKAD panel. At the panel he said he’d gone on a drinking binge on Wednesday and this is when he took cocaine. This always seemed odd as he was photographed doing Cas’ captain’s run session on Thursday morning, which would have been difficult given the amount of drink and drugs he claimed to have consumed into the early hours. In the interview he now says his binge happened on the Tuesday, not the Wednesday. Obviously, it calls into question the version of events given to the panel, as it’s unlikely the cocaine taken on Tuesday would still be detected in a test late on Friday night.

I think Wigan need to shut him up and tell him to keep his head down. He’s so stupid he’s going to drop himself in it.