He’s played like an extra forward hence the yardage
Where is he for mos at the moment? If those stats are so important he’ll be walking away with it.
Is there something wrong for wanting a bit more from a player? Do you honestly think that he playing at the top of his game?
The guy is a decent player I just want a bit more from probably the highest paid halfback in the competition.

If I had a choice of retaining French or Hastings for me currently it’s a no brainier

I’m not knocking the guy I just think that he can do more

But he doesn't say what people want him to on social media

Where is he on kissing the badge stats??? The game needs characters but only the kind of characters we tell them to be

Yes they are very important, he needs to improve dramatically.


Also we can therefore ignore that he is up there with tackles made and has the lowest missed tackle count for a halfback. Every Wigan team needs a scapegoat or two, or three.

Hastings is a world class half back - we look so much better with him directing the team around the park. I remember thinking at the Hull game how good it was going to be to watch him grow into this team throughout the season and really hit top form in the summer. Sadly we've ended up with a disrupted and curtailed season in which we cant attend games and it's unlikely that we'll ever see Hastings or the team as a whole play to its full potential as a result.

I'm not convinced that Leuluai or Smith are ideal partners for him - ideally he would be playing with a more explosive line-breaker. Him and Williams together would have been awesome.

It started before he even got here with Hastings. The pitchforks came out for him supposedly reneging on his contract during the off season, then when it proved to be false rumours people held it against him anyway.

No one will ever beat Gelling as the undisputed king of Wigan scapegoats. I swear I heard someone shout "Pull your bloody finger out Gelling!" upon the opening kick off of a game, which went to the opposite side to which he was stood.

Where have I said he's a scapegoat??
French or Hastings?
If he is so good so far why isn't he higher in the mos ?

He's in the top 10 along with three other Wigan players, so the points have been spread about. We're the only team with four in the top 10.

My criticism of him this year is that he has been caught in possession a few times on the 4th tackle which limits the kicking option on the 5th leaving Harry Smith as our only kicker.

So he can improve then?
That’s all I’m saying.

Not sure why making a point of suggesting a player could do with improvement raises such angst.

If I had to pick any halfback in SL I’d pick Hastings so I’m not criticising the guy just stating that we haven’t seen the best of him yet and I’d like to see it.

It’s probably really encouraging that he’s not hit top form because even at what I’d say has been 60/70% of his best, he’s probably been one of the best players in the league. He’s going to be so important to our chances of winning anything this season. If he hits his top form we can compete for everything. I’ve said on here before I think he’s a strange bloke and he’s clearly not as settled here as he was at Salford but he’s a competitor and I have no problems over the effort he’s throwing in to games.

I just came here to say, Itchy has a point there, and then read NK's post, and he's also right. Hastings is certainly busy, and takes the ball into contact, but has still offered us a decent haul in attack, and he defends well. I do think he's a good enough player to show us a little more; let's hope it comes.

I think Hastings has been excellent this year but maybe not as good as last season. Every player seems to play better at Salford!

J.Burgess in. Is Manfredi dropped or injured?