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NEVER underestimate the power of the fans!

Around 3,000 Warrington supporters banked behind the sticks chanted ‘Hodgson is a Wire, Hodgson is a Wire’ early into today’s Challenge Cup fifth round tie and the Huddersfield captain put his hand behind his back to signal his acknowledgement.

(above taken from the Warrington Guardian) - confirmed by Wires!

I live ~5 miles from you mate. My missus isn't an RL fan. I was sat in my house up from the Olive Tree today as sick as a chip. Proper gutted. But at the same time, you're bound to see those sort of posts on the wire forum from the posters who see fairies and pigs flying etc. Hodgson strikes me as being a smarter person than that.

I don't know the context, but maybe he was trying to signal a 'play'?

aww boo freakin hoo.
He had a shocker today but still a class player.
Players move on all the time, Atkins did exactly the same last year and went on to have a fine season/playoffs.

? Did Atkins stick his thumbs up at Warrington fans who were chanting his name while he was wearing a Wakefield strip? That's what OP is saying.

Dont give a monkeys about who? Atkins.......I am commenting about Brett Hodgson - even the Wires are commenting on how unprofessional it was - he cant have been signalling a play when waiting for a Wire conversion!.

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/wol ... s_a_Wire_/ If i was Brown or Thewlis i would have him in on Monday and ask him. If he says yes i would give him his pay in lieu and his P 45.

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/wol ... s_a_Wire_/ If i was Brown or Thewlis i would have him in on Monday and ask him. If he says yes i would give him his pay in lieu and his P 45.

Yes he gave the thumbs up to the wire fans while wearing a wakefield shirt. Before going on to play his part on Wakefields best season in a long time.
Thats why I used the example.

Hodgsons obviously not fit, if you sack players for something like this you might find yourselves with an interesting legal bill

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Yes, yes he did!


Do you really think Hodgson gives a monkey's about whether he plays for you again or not??

At his age he would probably be delighted at the thought of a long off-season to prepare himself for playing at Wire.

If he plays for you until the end of the year he'll give his all and, when fit,will be one of your best players.

If I were you I'd worry more about what other players were doing with their hands (missing tackles, knocking on, etc) rather than whether Hodgson gave a thumbs up to Wire fans who were chanting his name.

LOL exactly

Giving his all would mean not acknowledging the Wire fans and coming over to all the Huddersfield fans they were left ( he could have done it indavidually and it would have only taken 10 minutes

) and apologising as team captain for the most pathetic display i have seen by a Huddersfield team in 32 years.


If he had done that i would give him the benefit of the doubt. As team captain I want him to be hurting as much as we are not engaging in little jokes or friendly banter with a rival teams fans. Will he give Wigan fans the same gesture when they start chanting it next week. He can FO now AFAIC

To be fair to him today he didn't look fit & it wasn't just him who let the Wire players ghost throgh for some of the tries. Wonder if he will be playing next week?

The whole thing is turning into a bloody farce. This deal should never have been tied up halfway through a season, it's not like we are talking about a fringe player here this is the current man of steel. Secondly, any fan of any club would feel the same as Giants fans are feeling right now. Imagine Graham signing for Wigan during a season and giving a thumbs up to their supporters while his side are being thrased at home? Or Richie Myler signing for Saints and doing the same thing? It's cheap and if it is true then it shows the guy lacks class and I wouldn't expect to see him turn out for us again. All the good work an individual has done in the past can be undone very quickly by acting like a tit. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Meanwile...On the way back over the pennines after the game one of the Warrington directors poses a question....
'Did we really give that man a contract until the end of 2013' ?

Absolutely spot on! I hate to say it but i think he has made his bed, and to an extent the club too, and we should now look to the future, a future without brett hodgson, wish him Well and thank him but if he cant commit 100 percent to us then he should either play in the reserves or go now

At the end of the game he was stood with the players around him talking to them, they were there for a good 10-15 minutes so I doubt very much he did not care.

Yes I was dissappointed with the lack of performance from the team, but some of the comments on here are very very knee jerk for christ sake people give yourself a slap, the lack of backbone is unbelievable!

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So what, 3K fans cheer your name and you give a thumbs up, wow lets string him up and throw rotten cabbages at him, sour grapes, spitting dummies etc.etc.

Can anybody actually quote where it says he puts his thumb up? Either the article has been changed or it doesn't say that at all.

It says: "[iAround 3,000 Warrington supporters banked behind the sticks chanted ‘Hodgson is a Wire, Hodgson is a Wire’ early into today’s Challenge Cup fifth round tie and the Huddersfield captain put his hand behind his back to signal his acknowledgement.[/i"

It talks about Atkins putting his thumbsup, but if Hodgson only put his hand behind his back, there may be nothing in it at all.

TBH, I could be wrong as I didn't go, but the first time I heard 'Hodgson is a Wire' sung was when he made his bad error, and that was at the opposite end of the field.

He shouldn't have done it, but it is hardly the biggest crime of yesterday. And as was just mentioned it wasn't even a thumb according to be paper.

I do think the club need to come out with some honesty about Brett and Nathan and the future of our club because all this uncertainty is affecting the fans and by the looks of yesterday the players too.

A typical attitude amongst the people of Hudddersfield about the Giants



'so what!"

what gets me is you all want brett hodgson gone from the club just because of a hand signal to the fans he will be playing for next season



i remember last year when wire played quins at the stoop and king gave the wire fans a hand gesture , we didnt want king leave the club , it was wrong for what he did in that game but we didnt want him to leave , but look what hes done for us last season , he helped us get to wembley

get behind hodgson , im sure he will want to leave huddersfield with silverwear , theres still a while to the end of the season , you shouldnt be booing him or wanting him to go just because of a hand signal to the wire fans when hes probably been your best player so far this season

This thread is ridiculous...Utter ridiculous!