I think many of us can see huge potential when it all clicks. I would have thought that you can't entirely judge a player until they have a few dozen games under their belt, and Rocky is short of that. The key thing is whether he can spot and remedy his weaknesses (with help from the coaches). He can run like the wind and has a great pass on him - his link work is much better than Bowen's. He looks shaky or invisible under the high ball, and makes errors of judgement. Give him a long enough run before writing him off. If he was safe as houses but couldn't run or pass he wouldn't be worth the effort - you can learn one, but only god gives out the other.

We have lost better youngsters

I fear that if we lost Hampshire, it would be a disaster on a par with our loss of Sean Long. And unlike Long, we'd have lost him with no justification at all.

Rumours of Saints intetest again. Just noticed he started following Saints official twitter account last week aswell. Id love him at our club

I thought it was odd last week when I saw him walking down the street with his St Bernard, eating a Pimblett's pie and whistling 'when the Saints go marching in'.

Explains why now.

You can take the lad out of Wigan...

(I know Hampshire isn't originally from Wigan before someone points it out.)