ON THE BLINDSIDE
BY NEIL FISSLER

Wigan Warriors have moved to put distance between themselves and a reported big-money cross-code move to take England skipper Owen Farrell back to his hometown club.
Former Wigan Warriors Martin Gleeson recently set tongues wagging when he told a Rugby League podcast that he asked Farrell about a cross-code switch when he was part of Eddie Jones’s coaching staff.

“I asked him if he would play for Wigan, and I think he would, but I’m just trying to think of where he would play, and I think he would be a ball-playing thirteen,” said Gleeson. Farrell started...