The club were seeking clearance for him to start training again with the club this week, does anyone know if they have been successfull?

I hope so, be good to see the big guy back.

I am not sure why but I was under the impression that he could start training tomorrow. I could have dreamt that though

23rd March rings a bell with me too.

That date is mentioined in this excellent piece by Andy Wilson in the Guardian.
rlhttps://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/mar/03/wigan-gareth-hock-drug-banrl

If it is tomorrow, I'm sure everyone will join me in wishing him the best and hope he is soon pushing for a first team place.

Did he definitely get clearance though? Last I saw Wigan were asking for it but never saw anything else to say if they actually got it or not.

Is it just me that can't see his 'offload at all costs' game fitting in with Madge's gameplan? I honestly can't see him slotting back into the team in any position.

preccy and coley are big culprits in this department IMO too but they play week in week out if fit

If he wants to fit in then he'll have to stop throwing the dafts ones and concentrate more on his running game.

If he does that he could be devasating because we don't have a forward at the club that can punch holes in defences like Hock can.

I'm sure Madge will sort this small problem out.

i mustn't laugh but you are right about hock

he's a liability, get him out the club! hopefully if he does start back in training tomorrow over the next few months MM and the coaching team will train out any hockisms of the past and adapt his talent for the teams' benefits.

but even going back to when he last played for us though, hock on his day despite giving away knock ons and penalties is still a big threat to any team.

You can’t judge Hock on how he played back then as simply it’s a different Wigan.

Let’s face it we all heard some horror stories about the discipline and poor training methods in those pre Madge days and we only need to look at how Piggy transformed his game with some tough love to realise how much Madge works with the players in training and how good of a COACH he is. Simply all of our players are now better because they’ve been coached by Madge; guys like Coley and Fielden could be different people for the worlds of difference they’ve shown under Madge. Guys like Hansen, Gouulding, Joel and Lockers are defiantly, 100% better players, all make less errors and have all really kicked on under his guidance. I’d happily sit here and argue that Hock is the most naturally talented out of all of them and I’m very excited to see what Madge can do with him.

Exciting times to see how it works out.