Looking ahead to next season, I can't see Hampshire hanging around waiting for an injury. With Smith and Williams having a full season behind them in the halves and Tomkins back at 1, he surely is likely to be on the move.

Well, you're right in that he isn't hyping himself up and it can't be said he wasn't injured. It may just be that events conspire against him, who knows?

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.)