It's tough news for Philbin. A GF win is now all he has to aim for, and should be his motivation for the rest of his season.

Keep hearing Jordan Abdull to Warrington .
Doesnt make much sense to me as he never looks fit. However stranger things have happened.

Not heard that anywhere before, he's a player that has a big "potential" skillset, but always looks over weight and never seems to live up to his possible level.

Only makes sense if Drinkwater is leaving, Abdul to fill a gap until Hayes is fit again.Then to play as next man up. Also free up quota spot if Drinkwater leaves. Abdul sure won’t be commanding Rock star wages either..

Pretty sure we were knocked back quite recently when we attempted to sign Abdul. Maybe Burgess see's him as a project

Or Burgess has shares in Star Kebab

pretty much nailed on going back to hull fc isnt he?

cos they dont want to improve.

I'd rather sign Paula Abdul. We should be aiming much higher

If Tai goes to the Dolphins as rumoured next year I'd be looking at signing the best centre we can from the NRL (if any are actually available). I think its the weakest area in our team by some distance, leaving aside the (ongoing) potential of Wrench and rightful excitement over Lindop.

Abdull signing for Hull apparently along with about 10 others next season!

Yeah i thought he was off to Hull.
I'd like to keep Tai, i think we have an option to keep him in his contract, and if he's happy here you never know.
i think Drinkwater has been decent and had some really good touches since he's come back. Might offer him a 1 year maybe?

Two steps forward two steps back

Don't forget though...."opposites attract"

With us and Catalans being linked with John Bateman, do you think we are actually interested or is it the old case of managers using our name to drive up contract prices?
He's been off the boil for a few years now, but in top form he's brilliant. And Burgess can clearly get players firing again.
If we did get him it will be a long time coming since we tried to sign him and Whitehead fro Bradford all those years ago.

Soon as the Abdull rumour is put to bed we get the Bateman rumour. At present his form is not where we would want and the other issue is soon as someone offers bigger cash he would be off

That’s the thing with our club, agents will link us to whoever to bump up the price/salary. It a fault of our own making by having history of doing just this. Hopefully Burgess and Chambers steer us away from this.

Ratchford's been offered a 12 month extension before he moves in to a coaching role.

Well it better be no more than bloody £20k pa

Quote ="Abe Froman"Ratchford's been offered a 12 month extension before he moves in to a coaching role.'" https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/wa ... w-contract I liked Ratch as a player, but a "winner" he is not. This is a guy that has been in 4 losing finals, and we wonder when we will develop that ruthless winning edge that helps us win the big games? But the jobs for the boys era is over isn't it?

Quote ="Abe Froman"Ratchford's been offered a 12 month extension before he moves in to a coaching role.'" https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/wa ... w-contract I liked Ratch as a player, but a "winner" he is not. This is a guy that has been in 4 losing finals, and we wonder when we will develop that ruthless winning edge that helps us win the big games? But the jobs for the boys era is over isn't it?

No problem with Ratchford moving onto a coaching role with us, which will probably be at the Scholarship/Academy level.

However we have enough young players now who need further Super League experience in out 1st team and I disagree with Ratchford being given a playing contract for 2025.

If there is a vacancy, why not invite applications for the role and judge objectively. You know, like the normal world. This is just jobs for the boys pure and simple. Probably a Chambers' decision who was appointed in exactly the same way.

Could we not get a coach who has actually won something of note to inspire and develop the youngsters?

Apologies, I wasn't very clear in my post. I meant a coaching role in rugby league, not necessarily at Warrington. Although I am told he is potentially being looked at as a future coach in our set up. Not sure in what capacity though ie, I don't know if it's 1st team, Academy, community etc.

Your best coach probably doesn't need to be the head coach. Quality is needed to bring youngsters & academy players through to a level where they can slot seamlessly into the first team when the time is right with all the basic rugby skills in place. Saints & Wigan are our best examples of that.

How many Grand Finals and Challenge cups has Matt Peet won as a player?

Have him here do his badges or what the equivalent is these days next year in his last hopefully very limited player role and then assess him for a job after that.

If he is the one behind Thewlis kicking improvement I'd say give him a job as kicking coach.

Matt Peet did his coaching apprenticeship in the amateur leagues, applied for the role at Wigan working his way through the ranks to Head of Youth where he won 6 Grand finals at that level, he then worked at Sale RU, before re-joining Wigan as an assistant.

He wasn't just an ex player who stayed a long time and was given a job.