Well that's me convinced. Has it never occurred to you that people who know how much money changes hands in such deals don't spend their time on internet forums grand standing about it?

You, like the rest of us, know nothing.

How do you know that? have you got him/her on surveillance and tapped his/her phone lines?

Shouldn't you be replying to your own posts Mike87 or whatever you're called now?

You'd hope most of us knew slightly more!

I mean the truely educated know we got Hock from Wigan for the price of a packet of Spangles and the Docs award winning 25er conker.

yep perhaps I should?

"Although Parramatta have formally signed the 29-year-old,( Hock ) they are yet to pay Wigan the agreed transfer fee, believed to be around $250,000.Aus"


That's £137,000 to an NRL side ,who didn't pay , then Hock reneged can see us Dr. K paying more , most likely less.

Something being "well known" doesn't mean it's true. It's well known that lemmings throw themselves off cliffs in acts of mass suicide. It isn't true.

Neither you nor I (nor anyone else on this forum, I suspect) know what was paid for Gareth Hock. Your £200,000 (now down to £100,000) is just speculation, and no more valid than me claiming Salford paid £1 for him.

They sent him away from the club for an entire year (to Widnes). Hardly the act of a company managing a prize asset.

I would imagine the fee would have been nominal. The biggest win for Wigan would have been the freeing up of money from the salary cap (Tomkins was a marquee and I think that meant his wages had some kind of exemption (correct me if I am wrong please)).

I think it is best if the likes of Dubai don't confuse the issue by thinking a rich Aussie club bidding 18 months ago is the same as a Brit club in today's climate.

At least Wigan can say with some confidence that they now have a chance at the fair play award!!

;(

Some of the figures quoted on here are a joke, it reminds me of the time when many were throwing £250k price tags for Rangi Chase. As discussed before, the sum would have been nomimal and nowhere near the £100k region.

wigan paid six figures for blake green does anybody seriously think wigan would accept anything less than six figures for hock? I am sure one of you will meet him in the future just ask him he wont be shy thats for sure.

Does it matter?

Exactly. Another randomly generated figure we've seen recently is one from a New Zealand newspaper telling us that Marwan is worth somewhere in the region of £500,000,000. If that's true, then paying £100,000 for Gareth Hock is financially the equivalent of one one of us getting a round in. But not at Wembley, where the prices were extortionate.

it could matter if people think he`s prepared to pay these fees

I heard that Widnes made a bid of circa £200k but they were outbid by Marwan. As they say "a fool and his money are soon parted".