The standing ovation was to congratulate him on realising what a fool he had been and for turning his life around like he has, it was not to condone what he had done.
Gareth is Wigan born and bred and anyone who knows him will tell you the lad goes about his business in town as a very friendly likable lad who gives his time to anyone who wants it.
I’m sure if he screwed up again none of the Wigan fans would forgive him however everyone deserves a second chance and that is what he has been given although IL has made sure that his time spent in those 2 years has been put to good service doing manual graft within the community together with him giving speeches to children about the negatives to drug taking.
If his actions and his rehabilitation programme has made a difference to just one of these youngsters to persuade them not to use drugs and spread what they have learned about drug abuse and its consequence’s then that in itself deserves a second chance.
Just remember with all the drugs that around in todays society it could be any one of our kids that are faced with that decision.

Yawn, hardly comparable, run along.

How is it not?
Its still against the rules, which ever way you look at it.

Why is it okay to talk about Gareth hock but not to talk about cockayne and watts?

Probably because Hock's been found guilty and served his ban whereas the other two have only just been suspended and it'll be slander to discuss what we think's happened.

This discussion started about the reaction to Hock's return and the issue or drugs in SL and the legnth of the ban etc. If it was purely a case oif how good is Hock then it would not be here.

If you want to discuss Rovers players then use their board, it's only slightly down from this one, it's not hard.