Pengy is a close freind and team mate of mine at st judes quality player and loves rugby league .Last season he was asked to go to train with the st helens reserves but didnt take the opportunity because at the time he was enjoying his rugby with st judes and wanted to concentrate on getting the team promoted to the ncl prem. Ive spoke to paul a few times about what if wigan came knocking on his door . Him being a wigan lad and supported the club his whole life the answer wud be a definate YES! .He once told me that the only club that would be able to take him away from st judes was wigan and that he would just enjoy being part of the set up and training with the squad . I firmly believe that pengy could do more in a wigan shirt than richie mathers ' cameron phelps ' darryl goulding so would be a good addition to the team

and swapped him for Lee Hansen ........ would have been better to have signed Helly Hansen, given that we are all at sea at the moment....where's me coat

Let it go. Your questions have been answered about 10 times.

My mate is a scout for saints and literally begged him to go down training. The lad is just not interested playing pro rugby simple as that.

Aye, although the post above (bigun from wigan) has stated IF he was to play pro, he would only ever do it for Wigan.

knowing Paul like i do i don't think even that would temp him from his 20 pints and a scrap on a saturday night

aah I see, you mean he could not keep up with our lads?


Seriously though, I know Pengy. He is a crackin lad and the fact that he was not tempted or attracted - whichever - to play for Wigan is worrying.
He is a real talent. How many others are there who have never had the opportunity?

Sounds like some of you want to watch this..

pengy has calmed down a lot in last few months as he has realised that going out on a saturday night getting blind drunk isnt the way forward and realises that he has a talent that could possibly see him go far in the game with the right guidance from a proffessional club coupled with his desire to improve and better himself in the game its only a matter of time before someone takes a chance on him .

To be fair, a lot of the SL players follow that lifestyle so it may not hinder him as much as he thinks.

What position does he play?

Stand off/half back.

The problem is though that the clubs aren't offering worthy contracts to non-1st team squad members. There are lads at Wigan who are out of pocket each week by the time they've travelled to and from training. Hardly a big incentive is it.