Re: Ryan Hampshire : Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:42 pm  

captaincaveman wrote:

I see him regularly stood in the North stand at our home games. A cracking signing and hopefully can be a long term successor to Finn.

If there's one half who's made the absolute most out of the talents he was given it's Finn. So I hope some of his smarts and knowledge can be fed into young Ryan and make him the player he wants to be.

Interesting it's just for a year.Just my opinion but I'd have thought he or we'd have liked a 2-year deal, I wonder who's call it was on the length of the contract.

Anyway, welcome Ryan and I hope you finally settle here.

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:46 pm  

A real positive feel about this signing. Always remember Nigel Wright showing his best form in a Wakey shirt no matter which other clubs he played for.

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:14 pm  

Thinking about it some more, you could draw a lot of similarities between Miller and Ryan. Their style of play is similar, both quick, with a step off each foot & can create off the back of it. In Miller's case, he came over to England as a 21-year-old, with very little first-grade experience & was given the task of being SO at Hull, which is a lot of pressure to take for someone with little experience, under the spotlight of the fans at Hull. While he's been at Trinity, he's grown vastly as a player and become far more well rounded, such as when and when not to take on the line, plus has just generally matured as an RL player
Similarly, Ryan was brought into Wigan's first team at such a young age & found it difficult to really nail down a place because of one reason and another, that's been talked about before. He's then been to Cas, then to Leigh & is still only 22, nearly 23. He could definitely learn a lot from Miller's journey (plus what he's learned already) and how he's developed his style of play.

Anyway long story short, he's got 2 really good guys to learn off .

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:41 am  

Budgiezilla wrote:

He might actually 'smile' now....miserable sod !

I know what you're saying and how you're saying it but he's a really nice kid.

[Wildthing]

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:04 am  

Welcome home Rocky.

Always good to see one of our own in the Red, White and Blue.

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Tue Dec 19, 2017 8:20 am  

How did Ryan acquire the Rock tag,

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:34 am  

lampyboy wrote:

How did Ryan acquire the Rock tag,

His name begins with "R"

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:58 am  

lampyboy wrote:

How did Ryan acquire the Rock tag,

Don't know how it started but even his dad calls him Rocky.

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:04 pm  

lampyboy wrote:

How did Ryan acquire the Rock tag,

One of my sons played in the same team as him at Stanley Rangers, his mam and dad used to call him the pocket rocket, Ian Sampson who was coaching the under 8's over heard them and thought they were calling him rocky and it's stuck from there.

Re: Ryan Hampshire : Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:23 am  

Check out @dannyparki’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/dannyparki/status/9 ... 86561?s=09 Interview with Rocky

Check out @dannyparki’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/dannyparki/status/9 ... 86561?s=09 Interview with Rocky