You've forgotten warm summer meadows, rainbows & birds singing.

Whilst I wouldn't have him in my team and it would appear that I'm not on my own, I too was surprised and disappointed to find more than a smattering on here that would sign him up given the chance.

Regarding his name change, how unusual is that having the same surname as a sibling? It's a good job my sister got married to avoid any surname 'confusion'

My advise, stay out of the sun for a while.

i love a good 'wrongun'.... get him signed.

C'mon, do you think we were all born yesterday ? Your sister was never called Uncle Rico !

Obviously not as my sister is a girl, she's was Auntie Rico but is now Auntie Everything

I might agree if his indiscretions were for example just being too much of a tough guy at times and we could rely on TS to channel his enthusiasm in the right way to get the best out of him, but, they aren't

Rubbish. He changed his name from Hancock to try and get a fresh start from his (ahem) chequered past.

As stated above, everything he has done and represents would make me disgusted if he was at our club. I bet Ben Harrison would love him here after he tried to gouge out his eye.

I'd rather we developed Ben Currie and signed Bateman. I think Hock can be a fantastic RL player. He's big powerful and actually has a bit of pace too. But he's too ill-disciplined to the point of being unreliable.

I'm a believer in 'what happens in one game on the pitch should remain there; no hard feelings afterwards'. Dunno if Ben is the same but I'd like to think a lot of players are. People can do things in the spur of the moment and regret it afterwards, I don't think grudges should be held over individual incidents.

The only thing is with Hock, he's at it with opposition and officials in every game. And it can be damaging to a teams progression if a player is always say in the stand from being Sin-Binned Sent-Off or suspended. So it's a no from me.


Unless Tony wants him, then I'd stand by his decision as I trust Tony knows better than me for Wire's progression.

That's fair enough if it's a high tackle or a punch up but eye gouging is on a completely different level. Totally unforgivable.

Harrison seems like a forgiving guy, considering a teammate did the dirty with his missus.

We all forgave Mathers, ironically it was Wigan that hated him.

I love Hock the rugby player playing within the rules but his attitude stinks, he's disruptive and worst of all thicker than McDonalds milkshake.
The last bit is actually the worst bit because that means he'll never learn, he'll always be a nob, if it could be taken out of him i'd have him in a heartbeat but i doubt it ever will so in dragon stylee, I'M OUT.

and complete co-incidence that straight after this change that Wigan were able to sign the newly registered amateur player Gareth Hock. After checking his amateur background it didn't show that player was currently serving a ban that would have blocked his signing.

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What's the weight limit on luggage? Mossop's medical files will weigh a ton.