Throw in Denny Solomona and a few bob and you could have a deal for Hampshire.

I wonder, with the right conditioning if he could make a decent centre.

I'm sure he could. He has the skill set to be the ideal utility player. Whether that's what he wants to be long term I doubt it. I suppose it's a bit like the Ratchford situation at Warrington where fans can't make their mind up where he actually fits in the side. Some actually think that Russell is a better fullback, which is certainly not my opinion.

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... -1-8059381 That's a shift away from the "definitely keeping him" that we were hearing earlier this season...

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... -1-8059381 That's a shift away from the "definitely keeping him" that we were hearing earlier this season...

Well, this is it; do we need him? As others have said, only as third or fourth choice wing/utility cover at best.

Rogues> But given a choice between Hampshire and Ratchford, who would you choose? Ratchford, surely.

I wouldn't read to much into that. When a player is out on loan for a season I'm sure it's fairly standard to review it when he gets back.

True. Assuming that we aren't going to sell him, though, he does need to be loaned to a club where he's likely to get a lot more game time than he has at Cas. I don't really see him as having developed his game where he is, which is pretty much the point of the loan system.

I thought he would have been better off at a higher end championship club where he likely would have played every week. That said maybe being stuck on the wing at Cas will help him see sense about being so picky over where he wants to play.

Wane saying he hasn't even thought about it tells me Hampshire won't be here next season.

Wigan would have to pay him off though won't they? He signed a long term deal at Wigan on good money last year and I can't see any club matching that sort of salary after the year he's had at Castleford.

That's possible. I'd guess a journalist asked Wane about Hampshire in a press conference and his answer was that he is concentrating on this year first hence not giving it a thought. The journalist then turns that into a story.

At the moment, he is simply not good enough