I think Zac deserves his own thread. I wasn’t sure when we signed him & he had a shaky start.

IMO he has grown into a real leader in the team, I’ve been more & more impressed with him as the season has gone on. If you watch him closely he’s often the first to congratulate a try scorer and is very vocal during matches. I hope I’m not jinxing it here but he’s turned into a real asset to the team. KR deserves a lot of credit for mentoring him.

Been dreaming of Zak have you posting at this time?



. Seriously tho I agree with all that you have said . Hes an asset to the team think hes finally found the club to settle down and grow up at which is showing in his desire and passion for the club. Great to see!!

I’m not Nottingham Tiger and spend my nights dreaming about him. The joys of shift work. My normal is a bit different to most peoples.

He’s okay, good full back decent centre.

He’s been overall disappointing for me, not been up to his Leeds or Cas form. Couldn’t provide the X- factor plays last year that are needed at full back in a top team.

If he left this off-season I wouldn’t lose any sleep. I think we could use his salary on a specialist centre.

He’d be better off a mid table team where he could play full back.

We’re stuck with him another 2 years though.

I think that’s pretty harsh to say we’re stuck with him. He will never be that x-factor player again just like Sam Tomkins won’t be either but he offered us something invaluable to the team, which is leadership. I have been lucky enough to be working at some of the no crowd matches and you can constantly hear him leading and directing the team around even from the centres. He’s not the flashy player he once was but he does everything right and has never put a foot wrong on the field. Potentially losing Tommy and Lockers this year or next these attributes will become even more important to the team.

I think he's a bit overrated these days to be honest. I get that he's well liked at the club but I was expecting more of a game breaker based on how good he was at Leeds then Cas. Good to have an experienced pro out there when we're losing a few and I'm glad he's approaching two years since his last off field screw up but he's not someone I'm ready to wax lyrical about.

In our top 3 players week in week out. Player of season last season.

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I agree.

Am I happy that he's here - yes. Do I think there's better centres out there - yes.

Yep, exactly how I feel. Solid performer, particularly the Warrington game a few weeks ago. But I don’t feel we’d miss him if he left.

Good solid pro yes but not what we bought and are probably paying a decent salary to.

Genuinely really surprised at these comments.

Zak’s been one of our most consistent performers week in week out. Is he doing what he did at Leeds/Cas? No but then again he isn’t being played like he was there, especially at Cas when he took up what is French’s role. I’d personally be gutted to see him leave, he’s shown a fantastic attitude in games and out of games and he’s completely turned his career around, proven with an England call up by none other than Shaun Wane who, dependant on who/what you believe, in part left Wigan because of his signing.

He’s a [ipotential[/i captain for me - I’m not calling for it, I want Faz as the next captain with Powell after him.

He’s certainly one of the first names on the team sheet every week.

Hardaker is great for Wigan and Wigan is great for Hardaker!

Surprised at some of these comments too.

I think he has been fantastic this year in the centre. His game is more defensively orientated these days on the right but no issue with that. He is a top performing centre in SL right now in my opinion.

He seems to have developed a real passion for his rugby again and it shows in his displays.

I didn’t want him at Wigan but at the moment he is proving me wrong.

He may not be the flair player he once was but he knows his way to the line and the right side is rarely exposed in defence.

Depending on the retirements we will no doubt be experiencing in the offseason I’d definitely expect him to be in serious contention for a formal leadership position.