I think Ethan Ryan is holding fire on his move to Leigh until after the weekends MPG. If Leigh stay up the move will be announced but is they are relegated he may decide to stay with us for a little longer rather than have another season in the Championship. Then again maybe he has had offers from other Superleague teams.

Personally I feel Ethan is ready for the move up. If he does end up staying, or going to another Champ club, I don't think he'll be making the best career move tbh. Half of me hopes he does stay, of course..

Think Leigh's situation is the reason his rumoured move there has yet to be confirmed. If they stay in SL he'll be there. If not then who knows? If we're in C1 he'll be going somewhere else.

Think he needs to be at a SL club really to make the most of his potential - much as I'd love him to stay.

Love to see Ethan in SL. Imagine him in the Cas side



Brilliant finisher, very quick, but probably the best defensive winger in the English game IMO.

As with Chisholm signing, Ethan could stay with us if no SL sides come in for him, but i would be queuing up for his signature if i were them.

Well, the fact that only Leigh have been rumoured to be in kinda suggests they aren't...

It'll be interesting to see what happens if Leigh take the drop. Addy and Clark stuck with Hull KR when they got relegated, would Ethan Ryan do the same?

Good question.

I think KR were very fortunate in having someone with a 'bob or two' at the helm who'd agreed to stay. So the obvious question is what is Beaumonts's intention if they go down? If he's said he's committed to the club then there's little to lose by staying put as they'll be in a fairly strong position come next season (assuming the current circus is still on the agenda).

He's stated in a press conference this afternoon that should they go down, they'll stay full time. Something about the destination being the same and he's not going to abandon ship just because of a setback.


Edit, exact quote: "We will remain full time next year if we lose on Saturday. The destination and journey remain the same. There’s lots of solidarity."

I mean, I really don't know how you can make such a claim when Ryan hasn't even tested himself in the highest division yet. He's good defensively in the championship but SL is completely different. In any case somebody like Makinson is still better.
Ethan's issue, and I think this might be why top clubs aren't chasing him, is that he's not very big for a winger. He's tall and thin whereas the trend these days is to have someone in the mould of Fonua. A huge bloke who can power over from close range and also take some work off of the props when coming away from your own line.
Ethan can't do that, he'd get annihilated if he tried that in SL.

Great footwork and great finisher, but not enough upper body strength (yet).

I think if he was at a club that actually had a strength and conditioning coach he'd fill out. He's got the frame to be able to carry more muscle. Ryan Hall wasn't dissimilar in build when he came through.

Surely a move to either Leigh or a SL team would be his choice. From his point of view he would gain nothing by staying with us and dropping down a division when he could switch to Leigh. Even if they are relegated they will be pushing for top spot.

I agree with Bullseye, Ethan is quite a tall lad, and over time with the right regime he could fill out into as a big a monster as you like, certainly Ryan Hall -type anyway.

He has the other necessary attributes and could be quite a player.

I'm also not in the camp of identikit teams. We had Big Les and he was phenomenal, monsters like Fonua remind me of bigger monsters like Grothe and Meninga, but it doesn't mean you have to be that to be good.

I also remember players who would have scored bagfuls of tries whenever they played, through sheer pace and elusiveness, such as David Redfearn, Berwyn Jones and others, who would be just as good today as they ever were, as long as the structure of a team worked overall i.e. you worked to their strengths but covered areas of weakness.

For example, Martin Offiah was not the greatest defender that ever lived, but nor was there a single team that wouldn't have played him as a first choice winger. But that's just a for instance, Ryan doesn't have that sort of blinding pace, but is quick, and more to the point is a natural finisher. So potentially much more Ryan Hall, perhaps. Who's not turned out that bad.

He doesn't need 2 more years out of SL though and he certainly doesn't need a season in the third division of part timers and empty playing fields.

If we're talking about wingers then Offiah for me a is a breed apart from all the others of the past 50 years. His pace and his ability to read the game and put himself into a position to score made him peerless. The highest try scoring Englishman in 122 years of RL.

Rubbish tackler though

Confirmed by Beaumont as now staying with yourselves - good luck to you and the player, he sounds a decent prospect, although you wonder why he wants to play champ 1 and why no other club appears to be coming in for him

wowzers... if thats true.....

where did he confirm this?

Great work in convincing Ryan to stay on.

That will help shift a few more season tickets!

Was on Twitter.

Saw the message but not getting too excited until it's officially confirmed.

Here's hoping.

Confirmed a few minutes ago. Well, that is a massive bonus that he is staying. We are doing very well keeping our youngsters and it shows what the owners are trying to do.

Great news.

Certainly is!