Nnibly_Warrior wrote:
Prime of his career, money, fame, adoration... Can you blame him really? I'll admit, when I first heard this I reacted the same way many have "after the way the club stood by him, blah, blah, blah". However thinking about it now, in the same position, hell yeah I'd go! I say good luck to Hock. Let's all wave goodbye, say "good luck lad" and seeing as the age of retirement of a RL forward is getting later all the time, hope he comes home in a few years time. Imagine a Hock with NRL training and experience finishing his career at Wigan? Let's face it, Hock strikes me as the type who wouldn't even enjoy leaving Wigan for a holiday he's that bread into the place! He'll get home sick, come back as a 32 year old and give us possibly 3 devastating years before he calls it a day!
You can't run a team where you don't know form one minute to the next if your contracted players are going to want away having had their heads turned by agents or whoever.
It's dead simple and always has been. If you don't want to commit to a club and don't want to have the security of a five year deal, don't sign the contract. Sign a shorter one. If you do, see the the contract out.
All this "if I were in the same position..." does my head in. Good luck? What for? Screwing the club that probably saved his career?
The only way he'd be off the hook is if this deal were instigated by the club for some reason and wasn't his doing.
If the deal is off as recent posts are saying it would be interesting to find out why. Has Hock refused to go? Good lad if so.