I hope it is only a loan. It'd be a shame to see him leave.

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Dont think the 2 stories are linked to be honest. All the signs have been that he wants young British players (like Pitts) and this Russell loan signing has kind of been forced upon us rather than by choice.

Never know though, by the sounds of it the club were aware of McKinnon going back for a while. Maybe just delayed the news until we got his replacement?

The Wigan fans seem to rate this lad, so he could be a good stand-in until PG sorts out something permanent for next season.

Might be permanent if he feels he will struggle to get into wigans team, because of Tompkins.

But the consensus is that they may push Tomkins back into the halves next year with Tommy going and potentially Finch, with Russell slotting in at FB

Be surprised to see Tompkins moved from fb, he has looked too good there, the space he gets there seems to suit his game.

Exactly what I thought, would he get a sniff in the next 5 years? Could be another Briscoe episode.

Before we talk about Russell and next year, I have it from a good source that a few NRL clubs (for their toyota cup teams) are interested in him, and in fact he could have made the switch before the start of this season but chose to stay.

Big fan of this lad, great chance for him to prove himself

www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... story.html "Matty is coming for a month to have a look at us and for us to have a look at him," said McRae. "He's Wigan's player and we are not here to get him out of Wigan but there is the possibility of maybe extending the loan, we'll see later in the month.

www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... story.html "Matty is coming for a month to have a look at us and for us to have a look at him," said McRae. "He's Wigan's player and we are not here to get him out of Wigan but there is the possibility of maybe extending the loan, we'll see later in the month.

Not a chance. Russell has an awful lot of improving to do in many of the key areas for a full back, such as positional play, defence and dealing with kicks before he gets anywhere near being the starting full back at Wigan. Hopefully this loan move will be just the experience he needs to improve.

I think unless Wigan sign Slater or Barba then nobody in the world would be able to get close to being your starting full back?
Sam is quite frankly incredible.

so why do others think we should be moving him back to 6......... Leave him where he has space to attack the line and replace Tommy with a suitable replacement....

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