Spot on.
SW doesn't deserve to "coach" Hampshire. He doesn't fit into his style therefore, I haven't got a clue why we don't let the lad go.
Tonight Williams was very poor yet again and Smith well he was Smith little spark and zero creation but both will play at Hull. SW wouldn't know how to play Hampshire to get e best out of him at the moment.

Current half back combination offers vey little in attack Wane should give Hampshire a run at stand off next week but doubt it will happen.

Zero creativity with ball in hand tonight almost a re run of the Salford bore fest.

Hampshire is not a full back in a million years hes an out and out halfback. you give your best players as much ball as possible hes pace to burn support play, engine to cover the field can make breaks from nothing, give him a chance or hopefully someone else will. look at his try percentage in the academy half to full back a remarkable dip from 30 to 40 a season to about ten. modern day utter bull, read bill ashursts comments about ryan the best half at the club a future international at half and why split George and rocky up he says would you split Edwards and greg. bills final comments were some people have a clue and some don't. modern day my .

I remember reading similar rants when Sam Tomkins was moved to fullback...

The fact is, whether FB is Rocky's preferred position or not, he is still capable of doing a job there. No 20 year old in the country can make demands about where they should or shouldn't be playing, and I hope any rumours of that being the case are wide of the mark tbh. Hampshire did very well tonight in the situations he has struggled the most with, dealing with the high ball. If our attack was stuctured with any depth there would be no issue with Hampshire at fullback as he would be perfectly suited in the deep-lying 2nd phase playmaker role (a la Sam). The issue is Wigan's attack is so pathetically flat and laboured it's painful to watch.

Bottom line, I don't buy the whole "he's never a FB in a million years" line that many like to churn out on here, but until we sort out our clunky and shambolic attacking structures it wouldn't really matter who we had playing there.

Agree, he was superb last night and along with Charnley my m.o.m. although he was fortunate for Charnleys try as he was about a yard offside from the kick through. There's a good reason why many coaches pick their most dangerous attacking player at fullback. I've said many times that Hampshire can play either at #1 and #6 and be effective for the TEAM. As for the Gregory / Edwards combination, Gregory was an experienced 25 year old when he came to Wigan. For those who can remember a bit further back, look what happened when Wigan tried to go with Holden and Edwards in the haves at such a young age.

The only reason I'd be wary of playing Williams and Hampshire at 6/7 together at the moment is whether they can be vocal enough to organise a team full of more senior players.

I'm hoping next year when Sam returns that will curtail that issue and we may see them together with Sam, O'Loughlin and Micky also on field as vocal/ organising leaders

1. Tomkins
6. Hampsire
7. Williams
9. McLlorum
13. O'Loughlin

The prospect of that spine gets me pretty excited

It's their defence that would worry me. I was watching Hampshire for most of the game last night, he was fairly vocal, and did quite well.

Rogues I remember the failed Holden and Edwards combo but that doesn't mean that Williams and Hampshire would also fail due to age and/or experience.
We probably will never get the chance to see if it could actually work because unless Smith gets injured there is no way that SW will ever drop Smith however ineffective he is.
As I have said previously I hope Hampshire moves on to pastures new to give his undoubted talent a chance to develop because for whatever reason SW obviously just does not fancy Hampshire in the number 6 jersey