He can Train i believe in September but his ban runs for another 3 months from playing. Think his ban is 15 months but players are allowed to officially train with the club 3 months before the ban ends. Might be wrong on that though.

His ban was 14 months and I recall 9th September is the date its effective from.

YEP 14 month back dated ban to start 8th Sept 2017... can return to playing 7th November 2018....allowed to start training with Wigan full time 2 months earlier, so should be 8th September.......next Saturday

The countdown to meltdown starts on the 8th of September, tick tick tick

But he'll be great for you guys until the inevitable happens

How many games do you think you'll get out of him before he gets caught again???

90 games = 3 years

More than Tim Smith and Kevin Locke?

Woe betide him if he gets wrong side of Shaun Edwards....... Just saying..

Touche!

But like the players you quote - can a leopard change it's spots? He's a great player but sadly reminds me of Gareth Hock in the brains department.

We've all fallen foul of these wayward players in the past. And yet each time one of them moves to a new club, that club and its fans harbour hopes that somehow or other they will be ones who manage to tame him.

Sadly, it rarely happens. So, all you can do is take a chance that for the early part of his contract at least, you'll get some very good performances, which may secure you a trophy win or something similar, and that if he starts to play up later on, you'll have built sufficient safeguards into the deal to protect yourselves from having to pay compo when he's dismissed.

To be fair, we all said that about players under Wane when he was appointed, but look at the incidents we have had (Flower, Bateman, Tomkinsgate). I'm not saying that reflects on him, but some players will be idiots regardless of consequence. I'd put Hardaker firmly in that bracket. It's not like McDermott or Powell would have been soft touches.