I may be mistaken about this, but I don't think I've noticed anyone giving Hansen a hard time. Quite the opposite in fact. While Hock came in for some stick the other night, Hansen didn't.

Regardless of whether or not he had to make the move for monetary reasons, those who've said he's messed up going to Salford could still be proved right. He's obviously going to earn a lot more money, and good on him for that, but the trade-off may be very little, if anything, in the way of trophies. If he'd gone to Leeds, or Saints or Warrington, he'd still have a promising career. Salford was an odd choice, and I'm not sure there's anything wrong in pointing that out.

The thing is all of the top clubs have pretty similar salary cap wage set ups and structures and Hansen wouldnt get any more at those clubs. Therefore for a player like Hansen at Wigan, who is a good solid player but certainly no superstar, he is probably earning 70k-80k. This would be much the case if he went to a Leeds, Saints or Warrington. Its the clubs that are the next tier down and looking to rise like Salford and the Hull clubs where a player like Hansen is then a bigger player and then gets the big money at that club.

That may be true but he gave up a testimonial to leave so that could have been worth a bit. Also as Salford work under the same salary cap as everyone else and are signing/have signed other players who would fit the bill of increasing their 80K salaries how does that work if they are all doing it?

A team is greater than the sum of its parts and I think we saw that here at Wigan last season. How much a player like Hansen is worth isn't IMO what he looks like playing for another club but what he brought to our team when we won the double. Which was a lot.

I think Hansen working under Wane and Bitcon was worth far more to Wigan last season than Salford now and I think it is unfortunate we didn't value that money-wise for him as I don't believe with who Salford have signed and who they are signing he is their star player salary-wise.

I also think our new signing from Wakefield is an acknowledgment we are missing Hansen in the 2nd row. He seems to be the replacement for Hansen that Clubb didn't turn out to be (who is a prop and looks good there).

Farrell & Bateman are our starting 2nd row, Hansen would of been a sub at best. H was a limited player who was never exceptional in any deptment, for people to still be talking about him leaving is strange and you would have to question their motives.

Hansen probably wouldn't get in the first 13 at Hull, so unlikely he'd earn big bucks here.

In recent years I have stopped disliking Wigan, because I like Wane, I like your style of Rugby and I like how you develop your youngsters. Wigan is a very good club to play for, but my god there's a lot of arrogance on here. I'm sure Harrison Hansen is very comfortable with his decision every time he looks at his bank balance.

A lot if the 'arrogance' is a self defence mechanism. There is a lot of dislike sometimes even hatred of Wigan from other supporters which often results in the 'we are the biggest club in the world' response.

I don't dislike any club just the minority of idiotic fans that all clubs have attached to them.

You don't think Hansen was exceptional in defence then?

Was going to reply as above but thought it would fall on deaf ears .

Regards , EW

Out troubles on the right side in defence prove what a top player Hansen was for us. He's different to guys like Faz and Bateman but in his own way was every bit as good.

He's been a big loss.

You obvisouly watch a different game to the rest of us

Did we let Hanson leave because we weren't prepared to pay a top wage to keep him, the answer is yes. Decent player nothing else, Bateman is far superior and yes Hansen would of been on the bench.



This has to be comment of the year since most of you never go the match, home or away. Arm chair super fans lol
I suppose you are right, when i'm at the match i don't get the replays, adverts, commentary etc

A lot of us must have missed that survey reference the number of posters on here that go to game.


Maybe we were all at the game


Regards , EW

Look at all the tumbleweeds when talk about actually going the match was mentioned, EW take a picture of your season ticket and post it up to prove me wrong

Id almost forgot it was half term. Is it back to school tomorrow?