There was a topic on here a while back saying which 5 players you wouldnt mind to see go... Patrick was one of mine so happy enough with this, would have liked to have seen a better player coming the other way but will give hughes a chance... he has the pedigree having played for england academy and the knights, not his fault he has got stuck behind players at wigan that would walk into the giants team, still made plenty of appearances for them last season too.

as for patrick, yes he looks great in full flow when making a break and runs hard BUT he often knocks on..like taai. Ironic that patricks last touch for us v catalans at the end of the game was infact a knock on!

i also feel he is not good enough in defence, seen him caught out enough times for my liking...and he has no aggression in him whatsoever...somewhere we lack!

wigan have been after him for a while so would have gone season after next anyway and we get the chance to see another young talent in hughes come here hungry and to prove a point.

Not impressed and if Lunt goes as well will seriously consider not going to matches next year.

I renewed last week.

Given that it's not etched in stone who we play because of this splitting crap I was as slow as I've ever been when it came to renewing. Had this been announced last week I may not have done so.

Is Lunt really going? I suppose he may do. Let's face it; he won't be staying beyond next year even if he stays this year. He doesn't want to be here. It seems plenty of players don't!

There is something awry at the moment. The club openly moan about attendances but seem incapable of organising any positive news that lifts us. They expect the signing of a Bulls youth player to blow the lid off the place, talk of more positive news then announce that Patrick is gone. On top of that, they lie about it being really recent and Anderson not knowing whether it has happened. But hey, Patrick wasn't one of those who had surgery was he? Why wasn't he at the training camp instead of having his photo taken with the big gorilla? Why say we're letting our biggest impact player go because we need "more impact" and with us all having seen Hughes play and knowing that impact he aint.

Something is awry. Very awry.

Sorry to repeat my post on another thread, but here goes.

As I have intimated, I don't know the ins and outs of why this happened.

I am a fan of Larne's, but I would just like to point out that in this season's HGSA Wagstaff Trophy vote [loose criteria being 'who would you least like to see leave the club'], Larne received only one vote.

Yes, we are training up a youngster for Wigan, but they are reciprocating. If all goes according to plan, we shall see a stronger LP playing for us in 2016 [his contract runs out at the end of that season].

And perhaps there's more to the deal than meets the eye, something that either, or both, Wigan and us don't feel is right to publicise. I don't know, just commenting.

As people on this board are often saying, 'in Baloo we trust'.

We shall see.

I renewed last week but not with great enthusiasm but may not bother if i dont see any positivity coming from the club.

Yes it's all a bit underwhelming

Still could be worse
We could be Hull fans

Lunts not going anywhere.

dont think we will see patrick again..think there is more than meets the eye to this deal, maybe scott taylor is being lined up in future.

we have signed one of the best props in SL this off season in huby, people seem to forget this, we dont need wholesale changes like some clubs.

looking forward to seeing Huby and Ellis... with some players coming in busting a gut to prove themselves like hughes, thats me being positive anyway!

Neither was larne.... Last week...

did he come out and say that publicly ?

larnes mind has been elsewhere for a long time.. and been linked with wigan for a long time, came as no surprise to me

The club did last week.

Hughes to Giants reminds me very much of the Stephen Wilde signing. I think he will go well for you.

Good deal for both parties IMO. Both players strike me as lads who are ready for a move to get their careers moving in the right direction again.

Hughes could be a very good player IMO but it wasn't happening for him at Wigan. His progression had halted and his game was littered with errors. He struck me as a lad that needed taking out of his comfort zone and I think this move will do that.

He'll have a big year for you IMO.

I hope you Wigan lads are right.

not from patrick himself, which is the case with lunt.

if he can come anywhere near to what wild was like for us then he will be brilliant!

we have had some good in comings from wigan in the past, kev brown, mossop, robinson and aspinwall also spring to mind