Alan Partridge style

"Ian...Ian...Ian...Ian...Ian, no he cant hear me...IAN...IAN...IAN.........IAN!!!!"

My point was we need to fush out the bad apples.

Good pro's as named above qwould happily give samples as they have nothing to worry about.

It makes a change from Dave



Yeah, the club was in danger in '06, due to bad coaching and recruitment, today imo, it is in danger due to weak leadership, both from Noble & IL. Every week there is some kind of blunder from the club that in Maurices day would have seen RLfans and the Wigan Observers letters page explode, but some posters seem to refuse to acknowledge these things.

Perhaps my "dying on its feet" line was a little dramatic, but im sickened today at yet another gaff that is tearing another shread of pride away from the club that once truely reflected the meaning of the word proud.

It's ok if the players come forward and volunteer as a group but at times like this the club has to look to the likes of Lockers, Richards and Carmont as senior players to work through it together.

IL coming in and forcing mandatory drug tests on players like I said above won’t work and won’t make things better even if the tests come back negative.

Time for the club to come together not divide and that includes the fans as well.

Kind of depends on what he spends his 2 years off doing. At best, if he looks after himself & stays in shape, he's going to need the best part of another season in the reserves getting used to playing again & working up to full match fitness/sharpness. If he doesn't keep himself in shape it will be even longer - look how long it's taking Karl Pryce to get in the team.

By that time, we may well have (you hope) replaced Hock so may not want him, and his baggage, anyway.

In all honestly hes just unlucky hes "the one" who has been caught out. There are allegedly many more out there who havent been caught but slowly but surely they will and I hope that they are looking at a certain club that have a "Saintly" name.

Everybody deserves a second chance but that does not mean what hes done is acceptable. As far as im concerned once hes served his 2 year ban the slate should be wiped clean. Until then i dont feel sorry one bit for him. He is a Pro sportsman and at the end of the day he knew damn well the consequences. I posted earlier that its about time Pro sportsmen started acting like Pros and i dont just mean drugs,im on about drinking and general behaviour off the field. IL was told about drunken behaviour ages ago and didnt seem interested. I hope this is a wake up call for him as well as id guess that Hock is not alone here.

Maybe this will be good for Hock. Maybe he will now realise how priveldged he was to be a Pro RL player. Maybe he will come back a better person. If thats the case then there is no reason he can not play for Wigan again,only he can decide if he wants to be a pro sportsman or if he wants to waste it all and go the other way.

Hocks a physical freak, he's not the biggest set lad but he has unbelievable strength and i don't honeslty think he'd need that much time to get back into the swing of things.

There would be alot of things to sort through first before he got the chance anyway.

He is going to have a positive B sample, it is extremely rare that the B sample comes back different to the original sample given.

He is going to serve his 2 years ban, and rightly so.

Wigan should during this period support Gaz, as long as he is showing genuine regret for his actions and is proactive in ensuring that it doesn't happen again, and then after the 2 years if he still wants to come back and play rugby then the club should see where they are at and whether they want him.

I would certainly not be against having him play for wigan again in two years time, as long as the management made special circumstances such as extremely regular drug tests for him, and promises made by him to the club to sort himself out.

HOPEFULLY this will have given him the kick up the ar se that he needed, and will use the two years away from the support to sort his life out [and bulk up to become a prop





Yeah, the club was in danger in '06, due to bad coaching and recruitment, today imo, it is in danger due to weak leadership, both from Noble & IL. Every week there is some kind of blunder from the club that in Maurices day would have seen RLfans and the Wigan Observers letters page explode, but some posters seem to refuse to acknowledge these things.

Perhaps my "dying on its feet" line was a little dramatic, but im sickened today at yet another gaff that is tearing another shread of pride away from the club that once truely reflected the meaning of the word proud.'"