He’s either coming to Wigan or staying at Salford, and considering Salford have no quota spots available I’d say we have a good chance...

Why, what do you know for sure that he's not been offered a deal from an NRL club?

He might of been offered a deal but he’s coming back to the UK deffo, his girlfriend has confirmed it and he’s told me so himself through Instagram, didn’t say anything else though unfortunately

Good news. Whatever the issue is lets hope it can all be resolved and Jackson can find his feet and enjoy his time at Wigan. He's certainly what we need to be a genuine challenger in 2020.

Agreed, his recent Instagram story is interesting as well, a quote about embracing pressure and walking towards it and that not facing it can hinder you. Could potentially be a good sign for Wigan

I reckon he just 'playing the media' and not saying anything as in confirming or denying the rumour. He'll just suddenly turn up for training....

Definitely looks to be coming back to superleague to play, so we now need to hope it’s for us and that we’re not selling him before he’s even turned out for us.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news guys but i was told this 2 weeks ago from a Salford player. Apparently Hastings was in touch with Watson saying he didn't want to go but was told 'Salford can't afford you any more'

Saw Tommy Leuluai on Saturday night in the brocket before this was public knowledge, he told me it was rubbish.

Something isn't right, that's my gut feeling.

But again - that's nothing new. It was clear he had a deep affinity with Salford and wouldn't have gone if they could have paid him what he was worth. At the time he probably also thought he had a far better chance of winning a trophy at Wigan than he did at Salford. Probably still true to be fair, despite Salford getting to the final last season.

I’ve heard from a sponsor at Salford that Hastings has had a huge offer from Toronto. Only one man knows for certain what’s going on and he’s saying nowt

He's going to rack up some air miles playing for Salford, Canterbury and Toronto all at the same time. No wonder he's having a break!

Wouldn’t surprise people in the slightest. I didn’t read too much on to him wearing a Toronto cap as he’s been training with Blake Wallace by the looks of things and I presumed they’re mates but who knows. As long as he comes to superleague the club won’t be in a bad spot really. If Toronto want him then £700,000-£800,000 should cover it. Well if Hull wanted £500,000 for Connor he must be worth more.

Toronto already have two marquee players.

Sure they could find a way round it if they so desired but that looks to be the case. I’m pretty confident he’ll end up playing for us and whilst this fuss may have been none of his doing, there must be something in it and he’s done nothing to dampen it. It’ll all come out in the wash I suppose.

whos the second?

I bought my season ticket in the belief Edwards would be coaching Hastings next year.

I demand a refund.

Ricky Leutele
SBW

If you scroll up you'll see it in the discussions bud.

wouldnt pay Leutele marquee money. Like he said above i'm sure they could swing it some way. I hope they do, its been great publicity they have brought to the game

they will call SBW a union convert to around it

Highest paid centre in RL last season!

If they can’t get round having Leutele as a marquee player and it meant they missed out on a top class playmaker, I bet they don’t half regret that move. I don’t know a great deal about the guy but I don’t recall him terrorising teams last year, not to the degree a marquee superleague player should do when playing in the championship at least. In the fleeting glimpses of him in the NRL he didn’t seem anything overly special either.

Darcy Lussick was one of their marquee players last season along with Ricky Leutele. I haven't heard anything but I presume that Lussick's not on Marquee money in 2020.

I also don't think they can register SBW as a union convert as he's been previously registered with a RL club.

I was under the i impression that there was some timeframe involved in that. As in, if he's not played league for X years, he'd be counted as a union convert.

I may be wrong though.

Possibly. I'm not sure how it works.