According to this weeks league express - surely if he is considering coming back to the UK we should make a move though?

Was awesome before leaving us IMO and will end up an England International IMO. Understood at the time he wanted to go to the NRL but surely if he wants to come back here we should be making sure its to wigan and not widnes?

What's everyones thoughts?

would love him back....

but, as good s he is, HOW many back-rowers do we have?

Honestly?

I think Tuson is showing more potential than Flanagan.

Very happy with what we have.

Don't think we should sign him.

Faz, HH, Joel are all better players. That's not including Hoffman, Tuson and possibly Hock.

Very good signing for Widnes tho.

Very exciting time to be a Vikings fan as they've got plenty of cap space to play with. I'd be looking at a massive name plus looking at guys like Long, Gleeson, Carmont, Flannagan plus players from the team that goes down.

For me, especially with the loss of gleeson we should be looking to mould tomkins into a W/c centre which he is more than capable of IMO.

I would then go with Second Rowers of Farrell & Flannagan with hoffman likely to go back to aus next year, with Hansen and Tuson in reserve- Its not that many second rowers IMO. Would like to see Tuson have a crack at hooker anyway, think youd see the best of him there.

Would be a luxury signing. If Hoff decides not to take up his 2nd year AND Joel ends up being a revelation at centre then maybe it could happen. We'd still have Hansen, Farrell, Tuson and Hock in the mix though even if those were the circumstances come the end of this season

I think that we must be a team in decline if Flanagan was ever to be considered a luxury signing.

He did a very good job toward the end of the season and his defence was very, very good. However i think his reputation has been inflated far to much.

He is a steady eddy and not much else.

Joel Tomkins will NOT become a world class centre. He's got potential to be a good one but he'll never be as good as Gasnier, Hodges, Cooper or Inglis.

There are some very good centres available next season. I'd be gutted if we played Joel there to sign Flannagan.

I meant luxury in the sense that we don't really need him and he would probably be asking for an inflated wage due to that inflated reputation you're talking about

Thought we had 1 st refusal on flanninghan if he came back and we wanted him back anyway

We don't need Flanagan back. He's been no loss in my opinion.

I don't think anyone is thinking of next year we need a few players but if madge goes another coach will want his own signings not the ex coaches so were do we stand on signings for next year

I'll stick my neck out here and say I really rate Mark Flanagan and would definitely consider making a move for the lad.

What for? I could understand if we were short of back rowers but we really can't move for them here at Wigan. Far bigger priorities. Hooker, Full Back or Scrum Half for me.

Good for Widnes imo, would be a solid addition to their team

But in reality Flanagan wouldn't make our second row, so no big deal