Personally thought that Hansen was superb last night.

Ran his blood to water and was involved in everything.

Would have been in my top 3 after Smith and Gelling

Agreed. He is going to have to play a lot better in the big games if he is ever to pove himself in the NRL. Every game will be like that game last night and I fear for him in Aus if he plays like that. Teams and the media will tear him to bits.

Thought Hansen had a good game, really seemed to be giving it everything and tried to lead the young lads by example! Didn't even think Mossop played badly either tbh, he was his usual solid self, made good yards, was only taken back when they had 3 or more in the tackle, and defended well.

The thing with Mossop is that he does the small things right and has a great work ethic. We will miss that.

Mossop had a spell 2 years ago where he caught the eye with his go forward, and I think this works against him a little because he has not reproduced the eye catching go forward that he did that year.

The fact is though defences put more effort into stopping his go forward since he has become an established player, and I also think he has evolved working more on quantity over eye catching stuff and also become one of the tightest defensive Props in the league.


I have no doubt Powell will come in and be a fans favourite with big hits and big runs, but I doubt he will ever be as good as Mossop at the small things that set him apart.

I think we will miss him and I think he will go well in the NRL as a strong up and down grafting Prop, they love them out there.

Andy Powell is set to make his Wigan and Rugby League debut tonight, with not playing first grade rugby for a while I don't think we can expect too much I just hope he has a solid performance and prove to the fans he is capable.

Two 10 minute spells will do to give him a taste.

It'll feel like he's played 10 union matches no doubt!!

Thanks guys, nice to know shaun wane reads this and listens to my advice

ready made scapegoat should we lose tonight...

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He actually did ok didn't lose the ball much unlike most others with the stray pass near the end lack of help from the lethargic pack and had a few good runs at the line. I have seen worse debuts for us.

Did the ex enjoy the game?

What do you mean? Btw can I not comment on a post without someone mentioning that.

There were some positive signs for sure but he's obviously very raw and a long way off which is to be expected. His natural instincts of hopping around on the spot waiting for some big, lumbering 6ft 10 Union forwards to jump on him made me chuckle. He seemed to be grasping it more by the end though and was getting in to a forward motion quicker.

He certainly gave it everything so well done him.

Well I have just got back and I ain't in the best of moods after having to turn around and go back almost to the DW because bloody slip road at the A49 was shut so I can back via Orrell. That is after having to work today so my journey as I went home to pick up my son for the game was Runcorn-Chester-Wigan-Orrell-Chester.

So you can factor that into my thoughts on Powell if you like.

He looked clueless. Now some might say he's new to the team but players like Talyor don't look clueless when they join a new team. They know how to play RL. Powell has a lot to learn and God knows where he is going to learn it because the first team isn't the right place.

Physically? He doesn't look like an RL player. His muscle definition is just not what you expect to see and he looked pretty slow and pretty ponderous to me.

That's it really, nothing more to say because that was all there was to his contribution.