Not up to us at all, can't wait for 2 years time when people add his name to the Wild, Robinson, Tickle thread. He wants to go to aus, and he's out of contract, and who would stand in his way even if he was under contract.

We'll get it from all angles when the Flanagan to OZ move is made official.

Nothing Wigan could do by the sounds of it.

To be honest i'd probably be annoyed with the club if they stood in his way to go down under even if he was under contract.

It's an opportunity to go and try and play in the best league in the world, where the game is of a much higher profile than over here, and where he's living in Aus not Wigan FFS!

The one thing wigan can do is ensure that if he comes back to super league we will be his first port of call. That's the only possible thing we can do by he sounds of things, but as someone else has said, for the lads sake i hope he never comes back. I hope he manages to make it big and has no need to come back here ever in his career.

You can't blame the lad in the slightest. I would imagine any move has been in the pipeline for a while and he wasn't getting a game here.

As a 21 year old lad he must be excited beyind belief about going to live and play down under.

Good on him.

I understand what you mean tbh when you say you hope he never comes back, because that would me he has made it and is good enough to play among the best in the world. And if thats the case then he will no doubt end up as a future GB/ England player on that basis the same way Morley did

Hes not that good. Ok, hes a totally different player to the one who couldnt get a game in the first team, but there are plenty of better fullbacks in SL

Mathers for one

Phelps or Mathers?

No contest.

Phelps has been excellent since settling into the fullback position.

Good luck to Flanagan. After being largely ignored by the Wigan club I have no real expectation of him coming back here, why should he?

Yet another reason to SACK NOBLE.

What I like about Phelps is that he links up very well when in attacking position and creates the overlap on either side which is why we have seen both wingers and centres score alot of tries since he's settled in at fullback. Very similar to what Webb does for Leeds, still has plenty of things to work on in positioning but I'll be very happy with him as fullback for the next few years if he continues to show the same form.

Mathers one on one tackling last night was as bad as it's ever been.

He looks to be more confident then he was in his time here but thats a part of his game that'll never be fixed up.

The Wire fans talk about the deal they got being unbelievable because of how poorly they think Gleesons been for us but in truth Gleeson has been solid and is improving whilst we've also found an out and out fullback in Phelps who is a better player then Mathers.

Everyones happy.

You cant say that, Noble doesnt know how to deal with youngsters.

It just shows that some of the posters on this message board dont know their backside from their elbow.

Flannigan would not even be at Wigan only for Noble!

He has, should he continue to develop, he will rightly be here for many years.