A question worth asking is would he be as effective outside of wigan? Granted his defensive prowess is obviously impressive. But would his offensive contribution be as significant on the shoulder of a player other than blake green with whom he already has a fantastic link?

Good players adapt. If he would be unable to then he obviously wouldn't be as good as is being made out. Personally, I like him. It's just his size that worries me when it comes to the next level. At the moment I'd stick with the "big" back rowers like Westwood, Hock, Ellis (if he gets fit), Sam Burgess.

Liams Stats are outstanding and he's not alone, just to re-itterate what a few people have been talking about with our youngsters stepping up and our defence being solid, top of the missed tackles table is Liam Farrell with 0 from 226 big pat on the back, joint second is two more of our youngsters in dom crosby and logan tompkins missing just 1 tackle each from a combined 121 tackles and joint third are more of our young crop gil dudson, greg burke and sam powell all missing just 3 tackles from a combined 235 tackles. These are great signs for the future, all our youngsters out perfoming our seasoned pro's in the defence department!

Stevo mentioned on Backchat that "a few NRL teams" are watching him.....would be a bigger loss than Sam imo

On current form, he should be the first name on the teamsheet.

Lets not go overboard

Good player, but absolutely no way would he be a bigger loss than Tomkins.

Ye gods.

hes done it again. 38 tackles, 130m and 0 missed tackles. beast.

Funny, I'm sure someone on here once posted how Faz would be a good replacement for Hansen when he was injured, now he's better than Hansen.

Pity we don't have Hock and Faz as the starting SR.

Having looked at the league table this year and seeing how we have won more games than we have lost, I'd pose the question do we really need Hansen at all?

Yes.
He'll be one of the first names on the team sheet when he's fit.

You're right, it was more tongue in cheek regarding a point that has been raised before

Hansen might be behind Farrell and O'Loughlin in the pecking order but he's still streets ahead of Tuson, Hughes and Burke. Lets not forget that we've been beaten by Huddersfield and Leeds, drew with Wire and Cas pushed us close. Plenty of room for improvement, even if it is a decent start given our injury situation.

We did play Catalans as well and that wasn't a bad result.
I'd take that score for Friday anytime!