Sadly his form gets better week on week and his importance to the team grows but it looks as though everything is done and dusted with Catalans.

As much as Hardaker is a tool and a player I wanted us to avoid when I thought he was coming to play with Sam, I think we better hope he can somehow get a short ban and he will be available next year because he’s the only player in this country capable of coming close to replacing Tomkins. He’s a different type of fullback but a very good one.

i think that is the dimensions for the football pitch for latics. look at the markings on friday.the goal lines for the football and rugby dont match

The rugby posts are up in the picture, I measured post to post.

seems strange then.the rugby markings seem a consistant 10m,so where does the extra come from.a dodgy tape measure?

Wigan is the right size pitch and the football and rugby markings correspond. The try line at Wigan is the goalline for the football. Now look at other 'new' stadiums and this is not the case, ie Hull, Huddersfield & St Helens have the try line within the football pitch.