Released but not retiring. Gutted.

No!!!!

But he is joining the backroom staff

Wouldn't he be close to a testimonial aswell?

Gutted too

Having read the article I'm a little confused. He's joining the back room staff and will 'look at other options in due course' in regards to playing; does this mean when he's fully recovered he will play again, but for someone else? What's the likelihood of him playing for us again?

thats a bloody shame, one of the most underated players in this league over the last 5 years.

How can he continue to play elsewhere and yet be part of our backroom staff....!!!
I like Grix but this sounds odd and doesn't appear to be a sensible set up ...... in a set up that is already a bit broken...!!


I'm glad he's been awarded a testimonial though anyone that missed all three of our Wembley wins through injury deserves some kind recognition...

Reading between the lines, i reckon his leg is that bad it's still gonna need working on, if he's at the club in some made up role, we can pay him a wage and still continue to help him with rehab. And he's not under pressure to try and find himself a club for next year.

I was looking forward to a much strengthened pack defensively next year with Grix an integral part of it. Makes the Hughes signing much more understandable now - our best pack can be very strong defensively - Hill, Clark, Sims/Dodds, Westwood, Hughes/Currie, Harrison, but still not that much going forward. Backs need to sort our their defence though - With Sandow in for Myler, that's a big net deficit and Lineham will not improve things. Defensively Ratch, Penny, Atkins, Wheeler, Lineham, Gidley, Sandow is horrific and it's not good enough offensively to justify it. Maybe Ormsby and Evans would add some steel but not much. Feeling underwhelmed.

Never did play at Wembley

Albeit not forgetting we played our best games with Matty Russell at fullback ?

Oh yeah, forgot him. He'll be injured anyway.

Lol looks like this season really sucked the happy out of you , Chin up pal .. We could be Leigh fans

I think its going to be another long hard season again next year.

Ratchford has been laughably bad of late. Sunday beggared belief.

Sandow must be coaching our defence.

Perhaps with Grix coming off Salary cap wit will allow us to bring in a big 13 that can shake us up a bit, offer some real go forward and possibly even an offload game.... remember those....?!?

Think everyone is pretty down right now, but at least they seem to be looking at ways to freshen the squad up. For as good as he's been for us maybe now is the right time to move Joel on, and bring in a class centre - Joel surely must be one of our better earners so should be able to bring in some quality there.

Do the back room staff count at all against the salary cap? If not maybe Grix will possibly even get time to recover enough for a part time playing role sometime in the future.

That back room must be a good size to fit so many people !

He won't count on the salary cap at all as back room staff.

If he ever pulls on a shirt I believe his full annual salary would then count on the cap, although maybe only a certain % of his salary may count as he has a split role....?

All the best Simon perhaps not how you wanted to finish playing but you now have a position with the conditioning team and a testimonial to look forward to, a fresh start and well deserved.

By the looks of this article... www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... ance_role/ Smith not ruling out Grix coming back to play for us in the future, we just can't afford to 'carry' him for another season, which is probably fair enough from the clubs point of view. The Perfomance role allows him to remain part of the club and gives him some security, plus allows him to have his testimonial - pretty good stuff from the club there I think. Grix possibly to play part time for someone like Halifax, build back up to match fitness after not playing for over 18 months, then potentially move back to us for 2017....? He'd be 31 at that point I think so still time left on the clock.

By the looks of this article... www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... ance_role/ Smith not ruling out Grix coming back to play for us in the future, we just can't afford to 'carry' him for another season, which is probably fair enough from the clubs point of view. The Perfomance role allows him to remain part of the club and gives him some security, plus allows him to have his testimonial - pretty good stuff from the club there I think. Grix possibly to play part time for someone like Halifax, build back up to match fitness after not playing for over 18 months, then potentially move back to us for 2017....? He'd be 31 at that point I think so still time left on the clock.

Waiting for a nerve to kick in? jesus that doesn't sound good, isn't sean long still waiting for his to start working again, how long has it been since he had his face operated on?

I am gutted that he may not play again. Hope he will. All year I have
Beenn thinking that he could have been the light at the end of the tunnel. A glimmer of hope that he could give a lift to a pack that had little grunt (in defence particularly) as the year progressed it became obvious it was not getting any nearer. Did a lot of work off the ball and I will never forget that fein to kick for his try again Leeds. I wish him all the best and glad he will still be around.

Great post and I feel exactly the same about having had a hope all year that he would make a difference to the team when back. Best wishes to him

This is our biggest loss. Although we actually lost him 12 months ago. He's one of our best players when fit, one of the leagues most underrated players. We may not see him play for us again. I hope we do, soon!

Always improved the team when he was playing. Truly a career blighted by injury. What I think of as a "proper" loose forward. Really hope he gets to play again.