Fair enough that’s your opinion and your entitled to it but IMO Hock is far too good of a player to let him just walk away to another team.

The main reason I think he’ll be a success is that his time away from the game will not only have mellowed him but it will have massively knocked his rep and standing at Wigan. Let’s face it at the start of this season Hock was the top dog here and could do ‘bad things’ in training and get away with it. When he comes back he’s gonna have to fight for everything he gets as there will be players filling the role he used to and he’s gotta prove his worth to dislodge them.

Top British props are few and far between as apart from Graham, Peacock and Morley the rest, imo, are just plain average. Hock will be an asset to any team he comes into.

I agree.

I find it amusing, in a sad kind of way, that so many people are passing judgement on how Hock will handle this crisis in his life, and are second-guessing the way the club will respond to him in two years' time.

We don't have any answers to these questions. But if Hock has served his time, is genuinely contrite and comes back looking to rediscover himself as an athlete, Wigan would barmy not to at least consider him. The one thing of course that may influence them the other way is the state of our salary cap. It's difficult to see that he'd come back on anything more than a journeyman wage, most likely (and hopefully) because that's all we'll have available.

I will personally be very, very surprised if Hock comes back to SL on top dollar wages. He knows he’s gonna have to come back to a sliding scale wage because of the risk involved for the club, the offence he’s committed and the time of season his ban will be up.

Hock will almost certainly be earning peanuts during those first six months and is realistically only going to start earning a decent wage as time passes and his performance levels increase.

Hock on a very cheap wage half way through the 2011 season will be a very, very tempting proposition for most of the teams in SL.

Bailey is a cowardly cheap shot merchant. Wouldn't have him anywhere near the team. The only time he is the enforcer prop is when he knows he's onto a winner and isn't gonna get some pasty back. Thanks but no thanks

Bailey is shat and not even hard. If that's MM's ace card then I'll be extremely disappointed.

He may be our only option for a prop. Who else is out there?
Leeds must release somebody, where is Greg Eastwood going to fill in?
I agree with Jonh, although Bailey isn't a player I'd be 'happy' with he would add the extra biff we need in the propping department.

I'd rather sign nobody.

I agree.

I do not like him, and i agree he picks and chooses his times but it is better than having nobody at all.

He is the master of the cheap shot dirty tactic sly digs etc etc etc, something i think we need.

I also think he is a pretty good players to be honest, in spite of him being a total pleb.

His cheap shots are what concerns me, will he be our penalty machine? (should MM even consider him)

We won't sign Bailey and a part of me is glad, but there's another part of me which wouldn't mind taking a punt on him.

Wigan have agreed a no fee transfer of Fielding based on salary relief. Noble wants Stuart to once again help build a team that can compete in super league and Wigan want to off load his wage bill. My source is a leither who is closly involved with Leigh centurians and it is a friend of Fielding in this club that has let this cat out of the bag.
Maguire wants to bring a prop back with him and this move is esencial to keep us within the salary cap

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Me too.

Only a prop of excellent quality should be brought in especially with O'Carroll good to go next year.

On Fielden - could be a great move if someone is lined up to replace. Doesn't sound plausible though.

Noel Fielding?

Could see Maguire bringing Jeff Lima with him..seems hes one or two the storm need to get off the wage bill

Thought Lima was staying at Melbourne.