Quote: stillinthepast "Matty Bowen will definitely not be at Wigan next season Wane says he is not sure if Matty will go round again (modern speak) with another S/L team but it wont be with Wigan and he went in to say that Sam would be fullback next season. he also said that he had Rocky and Tierney as backup for fullback.
All this was in the M,E,N last night. I could not put a link up, something to do with my age or lack of knowledge.
Please note my posting says that Wane is still insisting that Rocky will be his back up fullback, I have now come to the conclusion that Rocky should bust a gut in any limited field time that he gets to put himself in the shop window.'"
The problem that Hampshire has is that he ain't a fullback and never will be.
If I were him I would put in a formal transfer request before the Widnes game and tell Wane to shove his comments up his Harris.
Hampshire is a halfback who just hasn't been given a chance. For his sake I hope he is signed by Leeds where his potential may given a genuine chance to develop.
IL and Radlinski should give us an update on if we intend trying to keep Hampshire or if in fact he has refused a contract extension and then tell the fans why we gave Powell who is average at best a 4 year contract. I think we all know the answer is that Powell can "cover" hooker and can defend "big". Total utter shoite when we are talking about a 6 but hey ho.
We want a 6 who can scoot from dummy half and tackle his nuts off but accept forwards like Mossop, Crosby, Patrick who have as much aggression as my 3 year old grandson. I wonder why I am becoming disillusioned?
Apologies to my grandson as he has more aggression than Mossop.