Another fantastic non stop, go forward game from Chris Hill tonight. He/we are gaining the rewards for him being with the squad from late last season. Both him & Carvell are playing well plus we had Moz & Coops on the bench with Woody sat in the stands resting a sore ankle.

Well done Chris Hill

Can I just add that Carvs is immense at the minute and even more credit is due as he seemingly lost his form only a month or so ago. Champion player.

Watching Chris Hill against Jamie Peacock tonight made me realise just how bad the England coach is, i can't believe Hill isn't in at least one of the teams announced this week and Stevie Wonder can see that Peacock is finished. With a World cup next year, why is Peacock even considered ?

Think Hill has been the stand out forward this season. Great signing from Smith!

fantastic signing and he will only get better

Great signing. Well done to the lad

A few people questioned Smiths signing of a championship player instead of going for an established forward from here or Aus, but Hill has been getting better & better as the season has gone on

Really tough player,shows there's quality talent out there playing in the championship. Made the transition to superleague seem easy.

Peacock is finished,offers nothing at all. This year should be his last at international level.

Morleys just the same though. Difference is, we gave Carvell and Hill, Cooper and Wood, and Leeds bought Darrell Griffin and Richard Moore, two waste of spaces.

I was really impressed last night and he backed up my thought that he should have been on the England bench for the exiles game. I would have had all 3 of Mossop, Hill and Crabtree playing with Peacock to see which of them are ready to step up and take his place from the end of this season because I'd use these 2 exiles matches as a swansong for Peacock at the international level. There's no way he can be a realistic option for the 2013 world cup and guys like Graham and Sam Burgess will need to step in to the role of pack leaders.

The good thing about Hill is that he's just going to get better as he gets more full time pre seasons under his belt and puts good weight on.

If you recall on the England thread on the pie board i said Chris Hill should be in the squad, to which i received a barage of ridicule, obviously not from yourself (you're actually a decent poster NK). Easily our stand out forward this season playing in a team in 2nd place playing nowhere near their potential.

Posting somehting like that on the Wigan board was asking to be shot down.... you may as well have drawn a big target on your head. The majority of them have never left their town, let alone realised other clubs have good players too.

The first rule of rugby league messageboards is that no player who has never played for Wigan can be compared to a Wigan player of past or present, even indirectly (ie. player x should play for England, when a Wigan player is available).

With Mcbananna as coach nothing surprises me on selection he's a grade one Muppet !
Hill is one of the best forwards in SL a country mile ahead of a washed up Peacock ! How Hill isn't in any England Squad is beyond belief but that's Mcbananna for you !
Hill will become the hottest property English forward in SL in the future this being his first full time season shows how good he is ! Mossop at pie land will be in his pocket like Fielden was with Moz ! In fact I'd say pies have nothing closely as good as Hill now who's English !

That's a ridiculous biased post. Mossop is a quality forward and comfortably ahead of Hill due to the minutes he has played at the highest level. Hill should be in the squad and will (in my opinion) be an international player for years to come but he's not ahead of Mossop yet. Last night was like a throwback to years gone by the way hill was taking the ball in on the burst rather than the flat passes our forwards usually receive. It was great to watch.

Mossop Crabtree Hill Carvell, even a fit Morley and Prescott (amongst others), are ahead of Peacock now. This is without even mentioning Sam Burgess and James Graham. Peacock is arguably not in the current top dozen English props.

I cannot get over how much he's been completely dominated in the last two games. The Exiles will run all over him next week.

All this flat passing does my cake in...no wonder there is so much ball going to ground .

Funnily enough Chris is from W1g4n, he was on the pies scholarship but dropped when he refused to move to St Pats preffering to stay at New Springs with his mates, he has been SL quality for the last 2 seasons, he has picked up the pace of SL quicker than I thought he would, he deserves everything he can achieve in the game, he is a genuine nice bloke ( no longer the great ' kid ' we have had the pleasure of watching at Leigh ) who I hope remains with you and wins a heap of medals and International accolades

Chris Hill is a fitness instructor and has been for a good few years and this has helped him make the pace of superleague look like a seamless transition

That's right Chris worked at our gym at Hindley Green, i have known him since he was about 17yrs old, he has always trained hard and now he's reaping the benefits, you have a good player and a really nice guy in Hilly.

Good luck for the season guys.

signing of the season! how he isnt in one of the england squad is beyond me? they pick Jamie Peacock but not hill, chris hill put peacock to shame tonight he was immense all night!

Glad we brought him in he has excelled and we should be glad we snatched him away from huddersfield at the eleventh hour

He was never going to Huddersfield, they wouldn't pay the fee - you got him for a snip at that. Leigh will not stand in the way of a lad progressing to SL. We have 4 lads coming through this year who I believe can make it in a couple of years.
Our D/R agreement has benefits both ways if used correctly.

I was speaking to his dad at HKR and he said it was almost a done deal and that warrington were at a Leigh game v Batley and agreed a deal there and then