Yeah, but from the way he's determinedly burned his bridges with Rugby League, as if his future is 100% Rugby Union (and bear in mind, Jason Robinson he ain't!), I'd suggest that Ashton hasn't got many brains to rattle around.

In fact I know he hasn't, from those who are personally acquainted with him.

That has cheered me up on a rainy Wigan morning.

The fact that Tuilagi had to hold Chris Ashton on his feet after the 3rd punch make it all the sweeter.

Tuilagi was obviously expecting a bit more resistance from Ashton and seemed concerned that the little flower looked all dizzy and dazed.

Even better was when one of the Northampton players consoled him after his walloping, Ashton buried he head in the blokes chest like a baby with its mother

Of is it just that forward passes and full-blooded punches in the face are not as important to Union officials as the multitude of technicalities and scrum and ruck infringements they need to constantly look out for?

Brilliant wasn't it, did you see Vernon Kay v Bill Oddie........unmissable tv !!!!!!!!

OOoooohhhhh, I seemed to have touched a nerve

So, Chris Ashton cops a high tackle and then gives his tackler one on the floor antd then gets seriously tw***ed in return.....seems about right. Give him his due though he has a different decision making process to Ryan Bailey, although from Ashtons persepctive maybe it was a little flawed.

Ashton v Big bloke, on floor facing away, who may retaliate

Bailey v little blokes, then run away and hide

The touch judge said Ashton threw punches aswell thats why he got sinbinned aswell. Poor Chris got absolutley hammered and then got sinbinned for his troubles haha!

No, just made yourself look silly, but every credit for coming to a board where you may learn something...



just watched the incident.... Hilarious, he was ok pushing the guy when he was on the floor, but looked a total dork when the guy got up... sheesh

Do we read anything into the fact that none of Ashton's team-mates dived in?

Or are they also part of the very small clique of people - thus far consisting only of the referee and linesmen (out of the entire population of the planet) - who didn't see anything?

Can't help but agree with you and not every Wigan fan is bitter against him.

The annoying thing is, he wanted to stay and would have stayed at Wigan if we'd have offered even half the money Northampton gave him. As for him only showing potential at the time and that Wigan were right to let him go, this is rubbish. The regime in charge at that time were rank amateurs compared to what happens now. IL has all our good young players wrapped up in long term contracts which reflect their potential.

In short, it was huge error letting him go but now that he has gone, I'm glad he's doing so well.

While I agree with this assessment, which incidentally is shared by IL from what he said at the last FF, it was the manner of Ashton's departure that aggravated so many people. Posing in that shirt was rank stupidity on his part, or sheer arrogance. Either way, it hardly endeared him to the Wigan fans, who at the time were trying to cope with a club in crisis.

Fair point but it gets a bit ridiculous don't you think, how some of our fans react to him. I witnessed him taking a load of abuse when he attended a Wigan game last year and he didn't react. He just looked uncomfortable and embarrassed.

In which case I'd advise he stay away from Wigan games. Several of his comments in the national press - to the detriment of Rugby League in general - haven't helped his reputation either.

How about moving this to the other sports section too Mods?????

As I said on page 2.

I honestly don't understand the animosity to Ashton.


Compare this to Brian Carney when he left, his last few games in a Wigan shirt were a disgrace. Yet most on here look back at him as some kind of Wigan legend.

I remember plenty people being at the very least disenchanted with Brian Carney during his last season at Wigan, and in some cases expressing clear hostility towards him. The term 'Biscuit Legs' was used quite a lot during that time.

What I don't remember is him dissing Wigan and RL in general in various newspaper articles after he'd left, presumably to try and justify to himself the decision that he'd made.

Did Carney parade around in another clubs shirt SEVEN months before his contract expired?
NO NO NO NO he didnt its the biggest NO NO in world sport, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest his undercracks!!

I still can't believe there are some Wigan fans that have such short memories and seek to defend the weasel.

I dont get how after 4 years people can still be so bitter about the lad. OK he may have done wrong before he left (most of that I feel because he was ill advised and so young) and his attitude may not have been perfect, but I bet if he found out Wigan fans still get angry when they hear his name, then he would laugh.

I'm not bothered what he does, but it does make me smile when I hear about a lad from Wigan tearing up Rugby Union, when in my opinion Sam Tomkins is a far better player and prospect and he is all ours!

Not Ashton.

Many of the comments on You Tube from Union fans coincide with those views from Wigan fans.

Basically a big head who needs taking down a peg or two

I didn't blame Ashton for taking the money offered to him, it was the right decision for him.
I didn't really blame him for the "shirt" decision. He was young and probably ill advised.

What I will never forgive him for was his "attitude" at training. I was told by a players father at the time that Ashton would deliberately throw a bad pass and blame someone else and say "you're "

I was told this on the day that Aston was released from Wigan, not at the time he signed for Northhampton.

Reet any chance of locking this thread?
I get a funny feeling in my stomach when I hear the name Chris Ashton, you know, the one when youve got really bad diarrhea...ooopps Ive heard his name again, must go, I dont think those lads at Oscar Moss will be best pleased this weekend...
Thanks Chris anyroads Ive had a 'smashing' laugh at youre expense this weekend...

Ive NEVER blamed him for taking the money

Youd have to be the d ickhead of the century not realised that wearing another teams colours whilst still under contract with another club wasnt right...oh hang on he probably is!