Hock will be at the DW tomorrow to discuss his future with the club. By all accounts IL has been crossing the i's and dotting the t's with the RL over what exactly he can and cannot do.

Really fail to understand what anyone will gain from a club anouncement, other than the opportunity to discuss the anouncement and speculate some more about something else.

Unless some fans have got some long term strategic planning to do and Gaz Hock's future is central to it. No, thought not.

As I see it.

Wigan will be doing their recruitment planning for 2011.
THEY need to know (us speccies don't) if Gareth Hock is part of those plans.

They will then know what their budget is, and what positions need to be targeted.

I suspect IL and MM will want answers and reasonably quickly so that they can make their plans.

Spot on.

It needs sorting now because the club need to know what positions they're looking for and how much will be in the budget. Hock is only going to be available for half a season and they may be able to arrange a staggered deal where he gets paid very little for the 2011 season and gets an increase there after.

I think one thing is for sure after his mistake and that is he shouldn't be on the same money as before. His wages should reflect the errors he's made and that basically he's starting out again(i know it can't be ultra low because other clubs will outbid us).

As he earns peoples trust he earns money cash and it's as simple as that for me.

The reason why there is still so much speculation is entirely the club's fault.



The last bit is the relevant bit, the club has still to do something it said it would, which is adding to the speculation it could have sorted out months ago.

The investigation by UK Sport was completed months ago and months before this Hock did make comment before the investigation was complete by selling his story to the Screws of the World and admitted his guilt before the B sample test was confirmed.

So not only did Hock screw the club by taking a banned substance, he screwed them again by making a quick buck by going to the papers and not keeping his mouth shut as stated.

A certain scrum half was rightly kicked out the club for mouthing to the papers a few years back. If Hock is kept on by the club he should consider himself extremely lucky. I'd have kicked him out for going to the papers after the fe[ic[/ikwit failed the test.

Can't disagree.

I would sooner all relevant parties take the time necessary to make the right decision in the interests of Wigan R.L.

Simple as that.