Am I the only one who thinks this guy is international standard. If you watch him for the 80 he does a ridiculous amount of work and hes a beast in defence. I honestly feel hes the most under rated player at Wigan. He is consistently good, guessing Wane agrees because hes picked every week.

Well, since he's already played at international level, for both NZ and Samoa, clearly others think he's international standard...

Yeah that was years ago. I mean now as he classed himself as British. I feel hes good enough

I remember today just before he came off he flew across the line and made an incredible tackle to save a try. Don't know what we'd do without him. Used to be a little underrated, but now he's one of our most important players.

He's always been a machine in defence and I remember Trent Barrett once saying he runs the best lines. He used to be quite slight, as did Lockers and Hock, but when they bulked up it added even more to their games.

He must defensively be the best back rower in super league, if he has a chance to play for England he should play, probabley better than most of the other players like Westwood, Heighington ect...

What's frightening is that he won't be far off a testimonial year!

Next year I believe. But he is awesome. One of the best SRs in the league.

Wigan's pack is getting bigger as is HH but he has pace for 2nd rower.
His anticipation of the opposition's plays is very good and he has pace to track back players if they break our line.
Packs have to be big these days but HH gives the forwards that pace which IMO makes him an automatic selection.

Has he? I thought he was still Samoan.

It's a daft situation if he's now put his hand up for England. 3 international teams in 6 years...

I think he should be nicknamed HHH - an extra H for honest because he's just that

I may be wrong, thought I'd read that somewhere as he has lived and played all his rugby from being a junior in England

That he has, he represented England at academy level. Brought up in Salford.

He has but he's chosen Samoa as his International team.

There's already a Triple-H somehwere in another sport i think

Has turned from a decent, solid sub into a top class automatic SL starter over the last 2-3 years.

It was H that chased Sammut all the way to the line at Bradford with his interception try - saved 2 points, as Sammut then missed the kick from slightly further out than he would have been.

Some of the comments about H over the last few years have been laughable. Three different coaches have picked him in the starting 13 week in week out, that should tell you something.
He's not a flash player at all, but he, like McIlorum are big hitters in defence and get through so much work to allow some of our players to play.

While I'm on about players, a big pat on the back for Darrell Goulding. I've had plenty to say regarding his decision making over the past three years but thus far this season he has been excellent. His winger is top try scorer and I can't remember the pair of them conceding tries in any of the opening four games.

Back to Hansen, he's probably one of the most underrated players in Rugby League.

Always rated Hansen since he first appeared in the Wigan team as a kid, excellent player. I've always been astonished at some Wigan fans perception of him to be honest, he seems to have had his fair share of stick. I'd have him at Saints in a flash if it was up to me.

He looks massive this season, I didn't realise who he was at first during the Leeds game!

Sport?

He is just as valuable to us as hock is IMO. Absolute machine who will tackle anything that moves. There was one tackle close to the try line yesterday and it was one of the best I have ever seen. Was a try for all money before HH came along.

Are you trying to say its not real?

can't believe Hock has been brought into things, we seemed to survive without him for 2 year so he can't be that important where as H is the backbone of our defence imo (along with lockers)

To me, Hock is the exact opposite of Hansen

In defence, fair enough, Hock is a big unit and can put in some punishing hits but Hansens defence is second to none.

On the flip side, Hansen isnt all that good in attack imo and thats where Hock's real gift lies