Personally I think he's a player that will age badly. He's undersized for the position and runs into a brick wall every week.

He's going to break down sooner rather than later.

Wigan are the envy of the RL world with the quality players produced - how the hell do you do it? I wish we had a similar production line -but there again we can't keep the ones we produce anyway!

I’m sure you’re right and it’s nwot to do with money and nice to know that the probability of less honours, and just the new challenge has influenced his decision. Good luck to him, I'm sure he'll never regret it.

could not work this out until i saw that whitehead had demanded a transfer to a top 4 club,yes that will do nicely.

Mixed reports on whitehead about how his attack is pretty good but in defence he's suspect ? And he can chance his arm one too many times with the offload ? But it's from the Bradford fans.

I wouldn't break the bank for him as I don't rate him as high as Bateman (wire bound ?)

He's young and mobile however and would complement Faz and take a bit of pressure off him

I'm amazed that, despite the superb quality these youngsters are showing, people are so eager for us to shell out a load of cash to buy in players who aren't much better than what we've got. Next year we'll have Hansen (hopefully), Farrell, O'Loughlin, Burke, Hughes and Lloyd. Plus Flower who may well move to the second row (where he started at Crusaders) at some point. Lets trust the lads we've got unless someone of top quality (I'm talking internationals or thereabouts) becomes available

Poor mans Jack Hughes (or certainly will be as Hughes develops).

We need backs not forwards.

Hansen needs to go to prop, we need someone who can break a tackle and offload. The trouble is Wigan dont have an half back who backs up line breaks the way Edwards use to, and the way Maguire did/does for Leeds, We rely heavily on Sam (who may be gone) and the centres, a good line breaker needs a pass available on both sides.

Sad to see Tuson go though, under Madge we all saw soemthing in him but when the Hoff turned up it knocked him down the pecking order and he never really recovered. Saying that he shouldnt take offence because the Hoff is playing origin so thats not a bad playin second fiddle to him. I keep asking myself who Tuson reminds me of, and I've never been able answer it. Who is he similar to?

Interesting to read Wane saying in the WEP today that he is determined that Tuson will be the last departure for 2014 and that he's looking to have as strong a squad as possible.

He also said he's got more important things to worry about at the minute then his own contract and that he'll sit down with Lenagan and Rads in due course.

I'd like to hope that means him and Tomkins will be here for 2014.

Great news if that means we keep Hansen and Tomkins for a bit longer

You ask who is he similar to.

Maybe Bobby Irvine.

This is going to sound harsh, but in reality he'll not be missed at the club. Doesn't offer anything that other players can't in his position.

Was very average by OUR standards.

You have to respect his attitude and reasons for leaving. He wants to play every week and playing second fiddle isn't enough for him.
I liked his attitude and commitment, every club needs good solid grafters, all the best to him at Wakefield.

I think last night was a perfect example of why we didn't move heaven and earth to keep him.

Last night was his big chance to show Wigan what they've lost. He was, for once, one of the more experienced guys in the side and was given the minutes many have said he needs to be effective.

It has to be said that it just didn't happen for him at any point and he went pretty much unnoticed for the 80mins.

He should have smashed it last night

We might but moving Hansen to prop would IMO be a travesty. If we haven't got a prop who can do that we need to sign one. As is pretty obvious I don't rate Lauaki but his one positive attribute is his offload. If he is the best offloading prop we have we need to sort this out but not with H out of the back row.



Depends what you mean by reminds you of someone but Lee Gilmore wasn't afraid to leave Wigan and had an excellent career elsewhere. Not sure they are the same kind of player though.