One thing the club can take from this is a discussion with the players around having fans connected to their social media accounts. Either don't accept requests from fans you don't know, or you need to treat your social media page as an extension of the marketing of the club, or have private social media accounts and separate club related ones.

Clearly the fans have access to too much currently and are more than willing to jump to conclusions based on it.

He'll be at Wigan for training next week.

From a close source to Joey Lussick, he's 100% heading to the UK next week. Maybe issues resolved? Goodness knows.

It was on his Instagram. I have a little feeling you don't know how it works...

Nobody forced him to sign the contract with us earlier this year.

About eight years ago I handed my p45 into the company I'd worked for nine years. Made the decision a little quickly whilst in an emotional state and following weeks and months I had pangs of regret. In the end it turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life.

Suck it up buttercup.

Do Salford have the funds/availability to bring Jackson back... say if suddenly became free?

Only if the good doctor stumps up again!

We need to get it sorted, otherwise they'll be 8,000 Jackson Hastings face masks circulating on Good Friday...

Lets knock this on the head - no and no space on the non fed trained quota. From what I can tell he'd prefer to stay in Aus with his family.

Fans are very fickle - if he ends up at Wigan and puts in a good performance in his first match, nobody will care that he's tried so hard to escape.

Can't see him anywhere but Wigan next season.

We should be wary of getting too frustrated with him ... and I include myself in that.

It's not like he's not turned up. He's not even late yet.

The internet is a nightmare for unfounded rumours and comments being taken out of context.

To avoid creating an atmosphere when/if he arrives, perhaps we should reserve judgement a bit more.

That is not being 'fickle'. It's what we all want..........not this pantomime, even though it is pantomime season.

But it's only a pantomime created by fans believing unsubstantiated rumours ( up to now at least). Give the lad a chance to turn up (or not) before he's ripped apart.

Not just the fans though is it... skip through the pages and you'll see screen shots of his social media accounts, newspaper reports, info from Moley (who is often right) plus a few who have information from close sources.

This is it for me. Maybe he's in holiday mode and doesn't to engage in RL talk until he's working again. As for the update your bio to Wigan it was written "Change your bio Wigan warriors." If some idiot without a comprehension of grammar demanded I change my bio, need get more than a "na."

8 years ago that?!?!

Christ on a bike.

Mind you. The company has been on a upward trajectory since then...

Wonder if it’s related?



In all seriousness. Glad you smashed it Matty.

Yep eight years mate! Haha good to hear things are still going well there!

Please share this evidence you have that he ‘tried so hard to escape’ if there is any! As has been said, it’s rumour started by a single journalist working for the most despicable paper in the world, in an article written without any contact with the player etc.

Once you’ve shared your evidence, I’ll consider sharing mine about Luke Thompson having already signed for the Rabbitohs for 2021.

Heard Thompson signed a while back when Wayne Bennett was over in the UK.

Admittedly I don't use it regularly but I know enough to know there are privacy settings on there he could have used, might have saved all this.

He's actually private no insta..

I'd be very surprised if he became a Wigan player. If you contrast the Hastings we know as Salford fans, with the way that Hastings is with Wigan and their fans, it's like night and day. He literally couldn't do enough for fans in real life and on social media. His silence is deafening. There is something afoot.

As to what happens next, I have no idea, but if I was a betting man I wouldn't be putting money on him playing for Wigan.

I think it’s that difference in attitude that gives people the fear that he’s not coming. In saying that I doubt he was making pals with Salford fans and going out of his way to respond to Salford fans before he played for them either. He also seems to have knocked Twitter on the head, so he’s not really conversing with anyone, other than via the odd Instagram picture or comment.

Jackson now appears to have put a link to his management company on his Instagram page in his bio

We'll see won't we chap.

I'm sure Thompson will be in the NRL in 2021 - he'd be a mug not to.

I don't know what paper the link was in, but the most despicable paper in the world is comfortably the Daily Mail.