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Wigan Warriors confirm that they are aware of an incident involving Craig Mullen on Sunday evening (24th March) which has seen the player charged for driving with excess alcohol. The player is co-operating with the Police investigation.
Wigan Warriors will allow the legal process to take its course and the Club will be issuing no further comment at this time.

The guy is a nobody. This is a nothing story. Just another attempt to wind up decent Wigan fans.

Well just like the 80s and 90s its wigan keeping rugby league in the media but sadly these days its just bad news after bad news out of that club

When Hardaker was convicted of the same offence, Wigan took the moral high ground and blamed his previous clubs for not supporting him prior to his conviction.
According to the club website, Mullen is a “born and bred Wiganer”. Will they accept the same level of responsibility they were keen to lay at the door of other clubs? I doubt it.

Depends what they do from now on should they deem him to be a young man at risk of going off the rails, I'd have thought. Hopefully it's a one off.

With Wigan’s new penchant for having employees without contracts it should be an easy dismissal process.

A one off that could have ended up in an accident, injuries or deaths?

He is meant to be a role model, but then, Rooney got away with it!

Whose a nobody, your mate ronnie or this craig mullins?

Can we please be very careful what is posted about this please. Innocent until proven guilty and nothing sub-judice.

that's good coming from you

How do you know?
Are you on the board at Wigan?
Have you got some inside information that you could share?

[url=https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2018-10-19-club-statement-zak-hardakerEnd Of 4th Para - Wigan Warriors Statement[/url

Are you saying he shouldn't have confronted his issues before now? Also, how is that levelled at other clubs anyway?

Don’t be deliberately daft. It was a thinly veiled, holier than thou snipe at Cas and Leeds.

If you don’t think that then I guess you’ll also think that Bateman’s coming back to Wigan, the salary cap breach was and admin error and Shaun Edwards has a contract with Wigan.

In your opinion. Why take a shot at two other clubs over a player you've just bought? It doesn't make sense. Although i accept that perhaps i will see it one way and you will see it another due to the clubs we support.

Yes you are right, a nothing story. Lets brush drink driving under the carpet eh?

You have excelled yourself.

It's pretty obvious by now he has some sort of stake in this site, he is literally unbannable - so must have some part of it.

Maybe to justify signing him after a drugs ban and saying it’s his last chance, then keeping him when he’s convicted for drink driving in his first week at the club?
Easier to blame his previous clubs for his behaviour than the player himself. Wigan tried to take the moral high ground and claimed they were supporting him when his previous clubs hadn’t.
To be honest I don’t know why they decided to do so. I think almost everyone agrees that adults are responsible for their own behaviour. No need to lay the blame for someone drink driving at Leeds’ and Cas’ door when he had left both clubs at the time.
I certainly don’t blame Wigan for the behaviour of the guy who has been arrested for the same thing. But I found it ironic that Wigan tried to do exactly that to Cas and Leeds when it was Hardaker in trouble.

Thankfully not. I’m far too competent for that.
It didn’t need inside information, as it was in a public statement from Wigan.

Hypocritical? Perhaps. But a drinking culture seems endemic to the game still. Unless that is addressed, I suspect we'll continue to see drunk driving, boorish and thuggish behaviour and the usual multitude of other misdeeds make the back pages and detract from the lives of others.

I think you’re probably right.
I’ve said for a while now we need an integrity unit similar to the NRL. There’s just no incentive for clubs to deal with the poor behaviour of players who drag the game down. Suspending them deprives the team of their services. Sacking them only results in them joining a rival team.
We need an integrity unit that can dole out some suspensions. They’ll soon stop behaving badly then, just like in the NRL......Oh, hang on........

I thought the other thread knocking about explained that Wigan mistakenly included the costs of Williams salary that he got in respect of the England central contract in which other clubs also get or "cheat" with?

Gutterfax received a lifetime ban for calling Chris Dalton a w@nk3r in jest........this tool gloated at the time and Chris no longer posts here, nor does the moderator who pulled the trigger......in fact, most decent posters have long since gone. The reality is that the site is now an "also ran" in terms of relevant RL conversations, because after the PC brigade banned some posters, it spiraled into irrelevance with an Australian pretending to be a Frenchman pulling all the traffic the site now has.....without Jean and his ridiculous posturing, there'd be little point in this place at all......the sites owners have reaped their reward for being overly protective......it's a sad indictment when total fascist RL .com is now more "on the pulse" than this site......but that's what you get for stepping into the realms of trying to dictate what people should say rather than allowing free speech.
Jean (or barry or whatever) is the only reason this site has traffic.....that's why they put up with him. The site owners are basically trolling us.....and we are playing along

It's a personal problem.
Nothing to do with rugby or Wigan. Can't see why people think it's their business.