Lam in the Post today saying he's expected at training on 3rd Jan.

Changes nothing, this needs to come from the player.

Aye, said he last spoke to him during the GB tour. I know the guys on his jollies like but a text message wouldn’t hurt. It feels like if we play hard ball he’ll have to come (but we’re hardly famed for that) but if we roll over I could see either Toronto or Salford finding a way of getting in through their door. Him coming back on the 3rd Jan already feels like we’re making special allowances for him to keep him happy. I’ve no problem with that ‘if’ he keeps his end of the bargain.

I suspect the plan is that he flies over between Christmas and New year, with his first day being the 3rd. Which ties in with club saying they expect to see him later this month, and his first day of training being the 3rd Jan.

shows how garbage their recruitment is then

Exactly, as there has been nothing to my knowledge from Hastings himself to confirm that he is coming and that there is no truth in the rumour which the Sun has published.

Like I have said before, I will believe that he is a Wigan player when he arrives in our country, trains with the squad and turns out wearing a Wigan shirt.

Im hoping he reports for training and smashes it. I have a feeling wigan are just reinforcing the party line by putting out there he is to report for training o nJan 3. The test of time will be if he doesnt report but we will all be able to see if he travels over the week before if that will happen.

Surely someone from the club would welcome him at the airport!

Not necessarily. He already has a house with Joey Lussic in Worsley.

We need to roll out the red carpet when he arrives and make him realise our club is special.

What kind of pandering is this?

He needs to roll out the red carpet for the club by dressing like a champion and acting like one. This is Wigan and he is hardly the modern day Darren Lockyer.

Meet him at the airport, yes. Roll out the red carpet....are you having a laugh!
The only thing he needs to realise is that, wigan is a special club and he will no longer be the big fish in a small pond.......assuming he has the bottle to come over that is.

This is exactly how it went with |Cas and Denny Solomona. Despite a mini van with Sale Sharks on the side doing a removal job from his Cas house and him posting pics of himself training with Sale in their kit Cas stuck to the line that they expected him to return to training at the agreed date.
With hindsight I think this was the way to go to extract maximum compensation.
Still hoping he comes to you and gives 100% as Super League needs players like him.

He’s not a champion though. He bottled the final

I didnt say he was. I said he needed to start dressing and acting like a champion.

Neil Cowie turned up to Wigan in his scruffs when we signed him and the first thing Dean Bell did was pull him to one side and told him that he had to dress like a champion if he wanted to play for Wigan. Its time clubs got stricter with players IMO. A lot of the SL players have lost their way and need a rocket up their backsides. Then you will see an improvement in the game over here. Less show boating and more professionalism needed.

You make a great point there.

A champion attitude isn’t just from training, it starts from the whole way the club and its staff act 24/7, even down to dress. Small things matter. Being a champion is an attitude.

Hastings just posted on Instagram that he’s coming !!

What’s he said?
I gave up following him a few days ago as got sick of his pretentious & cryptic crap.

Aye, posted the squad list saying he’s glad to be number 31 again this year.

Good to hear.

Meh ! Bloody Hastings spoiling a good conspiracy thread

What’s his excuse for ignoring the subject for weeks then? Did he want to it be on his terms, today?
He’s come across as a bit of a billy big these last few weeks.

He’s got plenty of work to do now for a year, before he swans off to the NRL next winter.

seriously. This has gone beyond embarrassing. 24 pages of scapegoating our MOS signing before he's even played a game, all because he had the audacity to spend a bit more time with his family over the off season and wasn't at our beck and call on social media.

Ultimately we’ve no clue what’s been going on behind the scenes. I personally believe he should’ve commented sooner (it has only been a week though) but if there were issues to iron out and they’ve now been sorted it may be the first opportunity he’s felt able to comment (not that it’s a statement, he’s just said he’s ready for 2020 playing in the 31 shirt again alongside a picture of our squad list).


Whatever the ins and outs are we need him and hopefully he takes to the club and the town like he’s done with Salford. If he does and plays his best rugby it won’t take long to win any doubters around.

Eh? What? Having an opinion?

I honestly think he’s come across as a bit of a tit these last few weeks. If he wasn’t allowed to comment he should’ve done the obvious thing and just left his insta & Twitter accounts for a few weeks, whilst on holiday, at home & out of respect for his new club.
It’s not hard (however hard some people make that notion sound, these days).

It’s no wonder this board has gone to rack & ruins these last few years and more and more people have given up bothering, if you’re not allowed an opinion.

Of course you're allowed an opinion. I'm allowed mine too, which is that we have unrealistic expectations of players and he's done nothing wrong.

That’s entirely fair enough. So why not just say that?