Thanks mr/mrs ryan

hes not wrong though

I'd say it's pretty much spot.

SW would love to see 13 Wilie Isa's playing for us. SWs inability to let players express themselves and using three quarters as additional forwards is stinking the place out at the moment. Not a popular view but I can't see anything changing this unless ST comes back as good as new which isn't guaranteed.
Last season was bad and we've continued playing the most unattractive style of play for many many seasons. Hampshire on his own wouldn't change it entirely but he would at least give us a strike player with pace.

Reading that interview i think Hampshire's time with Wigan is all but over,though i suspect if he doesnt set Cas's world on fire he'll be back saying all the right things next season,at his age he should be chomping at the bit to play anywhere not dictate (it seems) where he will or wont play,rightly he was sent off as he clearly doesnt see eye to eye with someone in the backroom.

Any young lad who comes in is potential very few are the finished article i keep hearing how great Hampshire is,but to me is far and away just potential,a pot load sure but far from the finished thing,perhaps if he'd have kept his head down he would have come in for Williams who does look very tired this season so far to me,but thats another story.

I think Wigan played it right with the contract as it protects their investment in him i suspect though his time may well be over as Wigan

He's sending SW a message? Hardly. More like the team has injuries and Ryan can cover in the halves. If the FB would have bee injured I'm sure Powell would have played him there.

Do you really think Rocky has the power to pick hi positions al of a sudden?

How does anyone know if he's comfortable not playing FB?

he said so

he wanted to leave but wigan wouldnt let him had offers from Leeds and Saints and a few more, they only allowed him to go to Cas if he signed a new contract. Not rated by Wane.

I don't get people's issue with him here. He was dropping bombs at fb which aren't really a requirement of a stand off. He keeps getting older and keeps going longer without a crack at his best position. Really rate him and don't get why we never gave him a shot in the halves

he was better than George and George was given the shot at the wrong position.

Have you read what he said? He is basically saying how happy he is that he has got a chance in the halves at Cas. He is happy because he has got a chance in his best position. Where have i or he said he can pick and choose where he plays?

It's a clear message to SW. As reading between the lines goes, this one is about as easy as 1,2,3.

I just dont see what all the fuss is about

Perhaps he's sending the same 'message' to Shaun Wane that Ellery Hanley used to send to Graham Lowe, when, in the days of the War of the Roses, Yorkshire would stubbornly keep selecting him at stand
-off instead of loose-lorward (in other words, a message that existed in the minds of fans with an axe to grind rather than the player).

But if this is a message from Hampshire, I fear he may need to be careful what he wishes for. Shaun Edwards must be eternally thankful that he never made any such stipulations about his early appearances for Wigan. If he had done, he would never have played in one of the greatest Wembley finals of all time and scored one of the greatest tries (from full-back).

We need to bring the War Of The Roses back and stick it in mid-season. Whoever wins it get's to defend it in their respective county the season after.

Unfortunately they were very poorly attended, as were the international origins, plus teams kept pulling their best players out with miraculous one-week-only injuries. As such, I don't think this is the way forward, as much as I would enjoy it if it had been well attended with the best players involved.