Hardaker 'Helping Police with their Enquiries' Leeds Rhinos 'bad boy' Zak Hardaker appears to be in trouble again, and is rumoured to have been dropped ahead of tonight's game at Warrington Wolves. Leeds have confirmed that two of their players are 'helping police with their enquiries' following the alleged assault of a a man at a student residence in Leeds last month. Non-club sources have named the players as star full-back Zak Hardaker and Elliot Minchella. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Hardaker 'Helping Police with their Enquiries' Leeds Rhinos 'bad boy' Zak Hardaker appears to be in trouble again, and is rumoured to have been dropped ahead of tonight's game at Warrington Wolves. Leeds have confirmed that two of their players are 'helping police with their enquiries' following the alleged assault of a a man at a student residence in Leeds last month. Non-club sources have named the players as star full-back Zak Hardaker and Elliot Minchella. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Cool story.

Shame we can't speculate or talk about it, can we? Otherwise we'd be breaking the AUP, wouldn't we?

Correct on the speculation, that would be breaking the AUP. Commenting on the facts is allowed.

Leigh will snap him up soon

Nah, the Perpignan Penal Colony, surely?

Zak might get some counselling from Ryan Bailey who has experience in this kind of situation.

totally out of character... i for one, am shocked by this latest allegation.

What if he hasn't done anything?
Just like last time the anti-Leeds lynch mob was out on RLFans.

the CCTV probably just showed someone that looked like him....

case of mistaken identity no doubt.

I must've missed the footage showing [uboth[/u lads getting stuck in to someone, unprovoked.

Can you pm me the link?

no.. maybe you should ask the police.. they seem to be the ones calling the shots on this.

or your club, who suspended both players for 'disciplinary' reasons.

Ah OK. Why not post this story on EVERY forum on RLfans then? just so everyone sees it. Just incase he's guilty of something of course.
Might get some of the forums a little busier and bring in some ad revenue.

Oh, you already did. Nice one. Hope it pays off.

Have you actually read the story? Your comments seem to indicate otherwise.

no.. why whats happened?

no thanks, he is a horrible C..........

on/off the field

I think that the fact that Zachary Hardaker is helping police with their enquiries indicates that he is a man who likes to help others, and has a good sense of social responsibility. This something to be admired in Zachary Hardaker.

I think that this is much more important than Zachary occasionally thinking that another man is a cigarette.

I expect Gary Hetherington will be e-mailing all his fellow super league chief execs ala Todd Carney?

Stones and glass houses and all that.

I guess Samuel Tomkins' position as England full back has just got more secure.

Hope he doesn't pour his RL career down the drain. I don't know him personally but whatever he might be off the field, he's a cracking player on it.

Might need to get away from Leeds though.

why?

Like I said, I don't know him personally but the naughty boy syndrome which he may or may not suffer from is very often exacerbated by like minded pals. Removing him from the influence might help, especially if he comes to a nice place like Wigan.

and this is what i expected. most teams will demand leeds release him, so they can sign him up....

i very much doubt that any alleged incidents were caused due to being in leeds or around leeds players...

Is this something you checked before typing? Thought not!

You'll find that the story was posted in Main News, here in the VT (both for general discussion), and on the Leeds and Warrington forums (the two sides who were playing and would be interested in Hardakers omission from the Leeds team).

Not quite EVERY forum!

AFAIK Hardaker hasn't been suspended by the club, he was "not selected" for the Wire game for disciplinary reasons.


I don't think its Leeds he needs to get away from but maybe he needs to stop hanging around with the younger lads like Minchella and spend more time with the more sensible, far more professional people at Leeds like Sinfield, Peacock, Burrow, Hall etc.

My view of Hardaker is that obviously he's a top player and I don't actually think he's an out and out @rsehole, I just think he's a daft lad who's risen incredibly quickly from part time at Fev, to winning a Grand Final with Leeds, to becoming Leeds number 1, to the England squad in just a couple of years and who gets carried away and needs to learn some control.

Im hopeful that he'll either grow out of this immaturity or will learn from the numerous players at Leeds who manage to be professional.
Regardless of what happened in this incident (and we don't know what happened or how involved he was), he shouldn't have been out drinking until 2am in-season. Even if he's not done anything else he needs to be disciplined for that.

tomato, tomatoe