If true, at this stage of the season do you have the salary cap to sign him?

If he has no more issues, why are the rumours claiming that he has been sacked?

Oh how the winds of change are blowing through your town now. So many think he would be on a par with sliced bread if there was a chance they could have him in the side now. Well for me if he wants to go, you can have him with pleasure, but remember he’s still more trouble than a barrel load of monkeys!

Why the hell would we want Hock with the amount of backrowers we have???? If anything upfront needs strengthing and Half Back before we can consider signing a backrower. Personally I dont want Hock if he's available or not.....

He is a talent, not sure what he has done this time.

I would doubt we have the money left for him or the positions.

But if we could fit him in then why not??

Could always try get shut of Wilkin to bring him in

contracts contracts,

I'd keep away, more trouble than it's worth. He may be a good player, but it doesn't make up for him being a thug.

hock is one of the better players in the world, and is better than most of our back rowers, however i would not want him any where my club.

i also believe whoever he players for he will miss at least 6 games suspended

Good player but no thanks

I would hand my season ticket to Eamon personally if we even put an offer in for him. Hock is a horrible person, his ability doesn't have much to do with it.

Absolutely take him on.

Id fill his contracts with terms and conditions but on his day, he is absolutely destructive. See how many people would give a monkeys if he notched the winner against Wigan at Old Trafford.

Anyway, can someone PM with what these rumours are anyway?

I’ve heard from my mums brothers bests mates girlfriends aunties cat that allegedly he has been caught doing something he was banned for not too long ago... if you get what I mean...

That would surely take him out of action from the sport, not just Wigan?

That would depend on what he had been doing with it. If what I heard is correct, it involves the same thing but is something different he has been doing with it and is now in trouble with a different authority - if you can figure that out? From quite a good source I heard it so could be true

I wouldnt want him in our squad, we have just signed the most devastating second rower in SL for hitting a line, strong running and offloads in Willie Manu, and have still got Soliola, Wilkin, Flanagan, Clough, Boof, TP that can play in back row if necessary. Dont need him, dont want him, and if Wigan are prepared to get rid after they stood by him through his ban must be something VERY wrong

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... -1-5298324 ''Coach Shaun Wane declined to comment on the intensifying speculation - but confirmed the 29-year-old is still a member of his playing squad''

www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... -1-5298324 ''Coach Shaun Wane declined to comment on the intensifying speculation - but confirmed the 29-year-old is still a member of his playing squad''

Got a message last night to say he was having shoulder surgery and all is good at Wigan

apparently this is a smoke screen. He was seen in the gym a few days back. Also reports say he was in a sling weeks back. I think its a bit of BS coming out from Wigan Athletics FC stadium. Also the thing about him missing the first 6 weeks of the season was released way back when... It was even in the papers.

Brilliant player - wouldn't have him in the Saints squad if he paid us to play here. Utter poison that we shouldn't even contemplate imbibing of. The comedy value of winding up the Pie fans just wouldn't be worth it.

And we're loaded down with quality 2nd rowers now so it's impossible to see what we'd do with him anyway, even if we did have the spare cap space. Let him go and rot the rest of his career away in one of the Hull circuses instead.

Also says that he missed out on their preseason trip to Florida, could be something to do with visa troubles, especially if he is in (or has been in) a spot of bother with authority recently...

Precisely. Whilst any club would want a player of Hocks playing ability, very few would want his disruptive influence. Wigan are happy to have druggies on their payroll, and for some odd reason their fans idolise the likes of Hock Newton and Gleeson. I say leave the disruption over there, I don't believe McManus would tolerate it here, as he didn't tolerate bad behaviour from the likes of Moore or bannister.

The reason he didn't to to Florida was that he was having shoulder surgery, as was reported at the time.

So, as far as you are concerned, there are no ongoing issues with Mr Hock and Wigan? Just a shoulder injury and everything else is not true?

I have heard nothing since around July/ August last year, when someone told me about with an altercation with a man in Wigan. The rest has been the usual message board rumour mill cr@p.

Hock has definitely had a shoulder op, and was the subject of a bid from Parramatta.