work nights

1) Having young excellent winger being the top try scorer in SL after only a few games.
2) The introduction of a young Sam Tomkins, a promising talent with a bright future.
3) The signing of Martin Gleeson, the perfect centre to play for us who is also a Wiganer!
4) Going to Murrayfield to see Wigan smash saints!
5) Having an excellent reserve young team looking to be unbeaten all season!

I always stuck up for the lad saying he had at least one brain cell, well he's made me look a fool.

Granted something to look forward to in the long term, every cloud and all. As for this season should we just write the league off now and throw everything into the CC against Warrington, because the club and the town needs a lift and as fans we deserve better than these idiots are giving us at the moment.

Some friends of ours have children involved in junior athletics the drug testing there is second home for ex-Gestapo Nazi's if the tales are true. They are so strict at this very junior level it is untrue.

They are tested after a meet and if they can't give a sample, which is often the case after competition due to fluid loss they are not allowed to leave until they do and never let out of sight of the tester, i.e. they have to be watched while they provide the sample. This can be hours and hours later. Why they put their kids through this is something I wonder at times because it is not at all a pleasant experience.

To test all RL players regularly probably isn't practical for similar reasons. The time and effort taken would be huge and cost a fortune. So they rely on random tests as deterrent. The fact Hock has got caught hopefully will increase the deterrent effect.

I am pretty sure they are tested after the game and not being able to give a sample would also be a problem. They could be stuck there all weekend with 34 players to test!

Dave

As a Wakefield fan I have often looked on enviously at the back row options that Wigan possess. gareth Hock was a personal favourite because of the way he played the game with that mixture of sublime skills, brutal physicality and a touch of mongrel, a mixture all too rare in today's sanitised game

What an absolute shame, let's hope he learns from this after his inevitable ban may be he can come back and use his talents properly.

If Wigan choose to cancel his contract maybe it will free up enough space on the salary cap to make a bid for Richard Myler.

6) 80 Mins away from Wembley

still only need 3 quality appointments.

New coach
New 7
New prop.

With the loss of Hock (Likely)

With the departing
Hock
Smith
Bailey
Phelps
Coley

we might have the funds for even more good signings.

If the right signings are made, everyone would feel 100% better.

Just need to give the club time.

That is what makes it sad from a Wigan point of view. I reckon he did give a stuff about the club but has been too thick to realise what he was doing was wrong.

Dave

Not surprised at all.