Simple - he needs a run in his favoured position to see if he can make the position his own. I do not get a lot of the criticism because he has never had a settled run in the team at centre - a few games here and there through a season hardly is a fair trial (and given he picked up a significant injury last season) so far he has been centre, wing and second row.

A player moving up from a lower league will need time to adjust (just like a young player starting in the first team) and that is not made easy when the player is in and out of the team.

Attacking play always needs more time to develop and given the Wigan's right edge is the poor relation to the left side it is not that easy to stand out as an attacking force.

Will he make it - time will tell, but I do not think he has done badly but we need to see if there is more to come with a run in the team, and lets face it if he can be a decent goal kicker it would be a major boost given how long it is since we had one of those!

If Friday is anything to go by, he keeps his spot for now. Even though Sarge did well too, I'd even keep Hankinson at right centre even if Zak comes back.

This isn't really a slight on Sarge at right centre - the way that we're geared up to attack down the left (and the lack of a creative 7) has meant for years individuals down our right side have struggled to make much of an attacking threat, and had to make do with scraps and being useful in other areas. Even gelling, who'd probably been our best right centre for some time, wasn't all that prolific in scoring or setting them up. Until that changes, it's going to be difficult for anyone to stand out in my view, and at least Hank is a natural on that side and is a top quality goal kicker.

Hankinson 190 career goals over 5 seasons
Hardaker 82 career goals over 9 seasons

I know who I'd rather have kicking goals

Had no clue he was a goal kicker - looked the most random thing ever when he was lining them up on Friday.

Greenwood is a biscuit and you're never going to have him free of injury for as long as you or he needs. Waste to even talk about his coming back into the fold lol.

Widdop

Touché my friend, touché!!

Doesn't at all change my point about Greenwood. And Widdop is about 50 tiers above the former so he'll be well worth it when he takes the field, same can't be said about Greenwood.

Isn't your trophy cabinet made from biscuits? It hasn't any weight to hold .....

Both international players, one has is a Superleague champion, one hasn’t won a trophy since 2012.

Well Hankinson is making the position his own at the moment. Some great centre play and goalkicking.

Couldn’t make it tonight but it sounded like he had a cracking game. I’ve just seen the try’s in Sky and his flick pass for Leuluai to go over was sensational.

Sarginson has gone from probably our best player over the two games against HKR and Leeds to now struggling for a spot and that is exactly what we want.