Can we keep him?



Please

He was good in attack but cost you 2 tries with ill discipline, so yes you can!

Nothing new then apart from Widnes will not get him next season as Salford will buy him.

Australia will get him

No if he was going to Oz he would have gone by now.

mystic meg to the rescue

Unless Salford put a massive offer in, he will be in Australia next year.

Hock was dreadful last night. A couple of big runs and offloads shouldn't disguise that.

A performance that typified why Wigan shouldn't worry too much over his departure. No brain, no discipline and can't be trusted on or off the field.

NRL clubs never pay a transfer fee or lets put it this way they seem reluctant to. The new Salford owner is daft enough to pay us a Super League record fee for him. Wigan Warriors have a contract with him and therefore i would imagine that IL would take a transfer fee from a team that will not challenge for SL play off spots for at least 3-5 years time. Yes Mystic Meg makes a prediction but an idiot and too much money will be too tempted not to sign Hock. And IL is clever enough to take it.

Sill one of my favourite players but hes burnt his bridges at Wigan and im sure he will end up at Salford/Wakefield/Bradford

Even more of a penalty machine now than he was for us! 5 in one game is a little bit OTT, even for him.

Appreciate all of the comments about hock but you sir I disagree with entirely. Hull were awful, hock makes a fantastic break, sets a try up, scores a try, makes 10+ offloads a night, plays 80+ minutes but gives away 2/3 penalties and he's dreadful? Absolute no chance. Get a grip

He's an explosive, world class second rower. Even when he doesn't make a break, the attention he demands from defences creates gaps/hole/overlaps for other players... But he will loose you games at some point, part and parcel of it I'm a afraid. That same aggression that makes him explosive in a good way, also makes him explosive in a King St at 4am type of way

. A risk worth taking I think, but no one player is bigger than Wigan, so you're welcome to him

The ideal situation would have been both Liam Farrell and Gareth Hock in the same team with Hock providing impact off the bench. Bit silly of some Wigan fans to refer to Hock as a penalty machine given where Liam stands in SL for penalties conceded.

This was sort of discussed a few weeks ago but with Sinfield/Hock. Sinfield was one of the most penalised players last season but he's clever with his penalties. He'd give them away intentionally on the first or second tackle in his opponents 25 to give his team a breather/break. Hock will do a high shot or thump someone on the 5th on our 5M line. He's volatile and unpredictable but he's one of the best players in SL. Apart from Westwood there's not another second row in SL I'd rather have.

This x1

You can see the cohesion in the squad now he has gone. Good riddance to bad news i say. He made his own little media circus so he could go and play happy families at Widnes and it will all backfire on him. He will have fallen off the radar in a few month and he will just become yet another player in a bottom side's team. His career will be ruined because of his own ego and it's all his fault. Couldn't care less where he ends up as long as we get a good fee.

Come on Salford throw us 100k and he can embarrass your team with his drug and alcohol taking.

Hock did what Hock does in that game. With or without the ball something is happening everytime he's involved in a tackle be that good or bad.

He's a game breaker and again that can be in a positive or negative sense. He could easily have lost Widnes the game in the first with a raft of daft pens but then played a huge part in the 2nd in bringing them home.

It's pure entertainment but he wouldn't have got away with that first half against Warrington or Leeds.

Sent off again.

Utter Liability. Glad we got rid. Farrell is superior.

Heard he got sent off for confronting the ref. Could be a long ban given the past history on that score.

Farrell has got ten times his brains but he hasn't got the attacking skills Hock has. If Hock was just a shade brighter he'd be truly world class. I can't say I am anywhere close to being gutted he isn't here any more though despite the relative merits of him and Faz. Like Newton who was a very good hooker he seems guaranteed to cost you an important game so nullifies all the great stuff in the run of the mill matches that he does.

Course you can

Awww really? Cheers, I'll tell the boss.

Awesome player

For the second half of your match I must be awesome. Well I did just as much as Hock to help Widnes.

Unfortunately, that stat is quite representative of Gareth's time at Wigan.

He was useful to us for about 50% of the time. The rest he was absent.

No doubt he is a player of great passion and ability but once more the, more trouble than a barrel load of monkeys, syndrome surfaces once again!