What are your thoughts about him?

I know he has had some bad injuries over the last few years, hopefully he will get a bit of luck at Hull.

Quite happy with signing, low risk really and if rumours are correct about Lynch joining Hull we will have 5 decent props next year.

Just returned from long term injury, he was getting stuck in against the Bulls there was no holding back so he seems confident in his fitness, not the biggest but will do a decent job

Strange that. We are pretty light in the pack as it is.

It's no coincidence that we lose against teams with a big pack/front row, [ia la [/iwire and catalans.

Not happy with this at all.

He has been nursed back to full health and is now leaving. That is ben davies and o carroll that are going in favour of that bloody liabillity from Hull.

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Makes no sense at all; not impressed at ALL with this. Letting young talent go and no doubt bringing in that numpty from Hull? Not happy at all Wigan!

Sad to see O'Carroll go, but wish him the best of luck. God knows he's owed some after the last couple of years he's had with injuries.

I had touchline seats against the Catalans at the DW and the difference in size of their bench forwards to Wigans was noticeable. When Cross was signed to cover the loss of Feilden I thought that would be enough for the season. Losing Cross and now Hock who could get a ban that would see him miss the rest of the season is a blow.

Will Mossop make a return?

No doubt Mossop will return and pronto.

And he does fight well above his weight, but he isn't as big as, say, Cross.

We need Fielden to return pronto too IMHO. If we don't get our front row sorted we can say bye bye to the final at OT.

Good Luck to him, he's had a horrendous run of injuries so I hope it turns out well for him.

We still have Fielden, Mossop, Lima, Prescott and Hock as senior props for next season, but IL has some serious wiggle room with the salary cap to bring some new players in next year.

Personally, I'm not sure I ever saw O'Carroll as being one of our four starting props - unless there were injuries - and I doubt he would have been very happy with playing fifth or sixth.

Lets not condemn the club until we see the big picture, eh?

Good luck to Eamon, be a shame to see him go, had an awful couple of years. Hope he can tear it up next year.

My thoughts exactly. We cant exactly criticise until we know who is replacing him

Sad to see him leave especially after the club stuck with him for 18months whilst he got fit. I'm not saying he's done anything wrong as I get the feeling the club has made this decision.

As for moving forward our replacement for Coley is pretty much going to be Fielden and it sounds like Dudson and/or Flower will replace O'Carroll which may turn out to be a good move. In terms of replacing Hoffman I think Hock will take that role on so it really leaves us just looking at possible backs. I don't think Joel is up to the centre berth and his try at Wembley proved little so I'd love to sign a centre (aside from Thomas) and if Deacon retires a halfback but available quality in those positions looks to be lacking.

Outside of all that I just hope we make sure we leave Lauaki well alone. I see potential in guys like Dudson and Flower and commercial opportunities in Thomas but I see little to be gained by signing a bone idle, overweight loose cannon.

As i understand it Wigan have no room left on the cap for next season due to the structure of all the long term deals that have been awarded over the last couple of seasons.

I think Wigan's recruitment will be restricted to the three from Crusaders and Lauaki from Hull.