I agree with a lot of that but I’m not sure about feeling sorry for Tomkins. I doubt we’ll ever know, or if we do it will be when he releases a book upon retirement but I suspect that we signed Hardaker because Tomkins was leaving not the other way round.

As for Zak I honestly don’t know what we should do. I get the point that he is potentially possibly even inevitably going to be a disruptive influence to some extent. However from a purely playing point of view we won’t be able to replace him with anywhere near the same quality.

Maybe it’s because I’m a glass half full person, maybe it’s just blind optimism but there’s still that part of me that thinks if we can get him over to Lancashire to live and keep him away from his ‘mates’ we have a cracking player on our hands.

I still wish we’d activated the one year clause in Tomkins’ contract before it was too late though.

He’s supposedly renting batsman’s house while Bateman is in aus . Is the house in Lancashire ?

He won't change, he'll just get a new set of idiot hangers on.

The more you hear of the Ford Fiesta Fiasco the more you know he's a lame waste of space, justifying the desperate need to drive, GOLF CLUBS!! Guess a taxi wouldn't have been any use.

Don’t forget shagging other team mates wives

Not good for team spirit I guess.

He's pretty much feral

Ian Lenagan warned that Hardaker cannot afford any more controversies.

Lenagan said: “This wasn’t a decision that we made lightly. We recognise the serious nature of this incident and our choice in offering this opportunity should not be seen as condoning his actions in any way.

“We had extensive conversations with Zak and his family before making our offer.

“We encountered a man who, after eight months of reflection, openly admits that he has made a series of significantly poor decisions over the past few years.

“Crucially, we also saw someone who recognises that this is the final opportunity to focus on delivering the achievements his talent should generate.

“I have had the experiences in business and sport of offering contrite individuals the final opportunity and environment to learn from their mistakes with some notable successes and occasional failures.


Eight months and Zak admits openly to some of his decisions being poor, violence, homophobia, kicked out England camp, drugs and after the interview drink driving poor an tad understated just wrong I'd say


Whatever they saw should have gone to Specsavers

Who's wife was he turking

The chap said wives

Ferres?

I thought he was one of those doing the dirty on a team mate which lead to his transfer

It was Ferres who was doing the dirty on his best mates wife.
Heard Hardaker was playing with one of our wingers wife.
The guys a liability and such a shame as he has the talent to be one of the best in SL.
For those who reckon him moving to Lancashire will get him away from his mates.
You do know it's a little over an hour by car even in a fiesta with no MoT.

Hardaker was dipping in the Ryan hall pool. Hence why hall refused to play in same team hence why one had to go hence why the bad apple ended up at Cas