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absolute rubbish - you have a dalliance with a team mates wife the team turns against you and were doing this

. Bateman and co had a beer too many



a fight broke out - wake up with a sore head



and 10k lighter kissed and made up



all over

I think this is the first post I've seen with more emoticons than letters.

It would seem to indicate a man with a very limited vocabulary.

Are you John Bateman?

Not sure they would have done the same if they had paid £100k for either Carney or Ferres.
Also I'm not sure that this story has finished yet.
Rightly or wrongly Bateman is a saleable asset and to summirarly dismiss him would have effective given Bateman a free transfer. Personally although I rate Bateman if I owned the club he would have walked but then again I didn't pay him £100k out of my bank account.
A bit of petrol still in the tank yet on this me thinks.

Spot on Itchy, if the situation was reversed I wouldn't want to lose Bateman just as I didn't want to lose Justin Carney but you have to put your trust in the coach. Like it or not there is a lot more mileage in this and the RL Journo's will be on it already.

Bateman has just today removed any reference of Wigan Warriors from his twitter bio.

Disagree completely. I like it and only wish I could do this

It still says Wigan/Bradford at the bottom but he has taken 'for Wigan Warriors' out after the 'I'm a pro Rugby League player'.

I've said earlier on in the thread I certainly don't think we've heard the last of him leaving and I still would be far from surprised if he's already played his last game for the club.

Well, that seems to have worked out well for huddersfield doesnt it.

Might as well have bloody kept him.

True. Not sure they could have done any worse, even if ALL the players hated each other.

I'm not surprised that the wigan fans want to get over this incident sharpish and keep bateman as he's certainly a class act but after hearing what he's done I'm surprised the police haven't charged him

The club to their credit have done very well to brush it under the carpet by 'convincing' people to do things and that's the reason why wigan have been able to clear it up quickly and not get the police involved

Fwiw if it had happened at my club I would want him sacked,if he had done what he's done and not been a professional sportsman with a strong club looking after him he could realistically get a custodial sentence

But that's just my opinion of course

Funny how so many other fans get pious about this sort of thing when it's a Wigan player.

"If it was one of our players, I'd want him out, dah de dah ..."

Yeah, right. Talk is so cheap when you think you're on the moral high ground.

But I suppose I'm flattered that you think Wigan are so influential they can convince the police not to charge for a serious assault (bear in mind, the police don't even need a complaint to take action in those circumtances).

Perhaps consider an alternative possibiliy, that the police found reasons of their own not to charge, and then try to work out what those might be.