Unfortunately Saltonstall never really pushed on from the U19's. He played for England Academy in 2012, but never quite managed to get a debut in the first team. This year he didn't play until mid April - presumably he was unable to get a gig with a Championship side. Finally York in Championship 1 took him and he has been a regular in the side over the season. Pity, but an all too familiar story for us.

So is your only gripe with waterhouse his pay packet?(not that anyone on here has any idea what that actually is!). That is hardly his fault, the club decide what to pay him. Waterhouse has been very good for us and it shows when he isn't there(like last years grand final). That said, i think the time is right to let him go. We've had a few good years out of him and now have some young exciting back rowers in the team.

Seems a shame.

Whenever I scanned the Guardian, he was spoken of quite highly, and always seemed to get a mention on here.
Maybe he's found his level. Still quite young. Time for the lad to develop. He owes that to himself, after a good youth career (that I've read about)

I've had many gripes with Waterhouse, not least his wages.

His disappearance in games being my major gripe.

It showed when he wasn't here this season....we went on a 10 match unbeaten run

Yes, he could tackle
Yes, he could take "crash balls" and have 3 men to bring him down....

BUT, I want more than that from a SoO/ AussieTest forward.

As I've said before, we got Gary Sanderson, for (what virtually all of us assume) Matt King's wages.

Remember that time he disappeared at Saints in the playoffs?

Think Waterhouse is the victim of some pretty harsh stereotypes and lazy viewing. He isn't prolifically quick = he doesn't take the ball up hard, etc.

I think he's been consistently good since he's been here. He's always brought it, he's always offloaded well, he's always ran good lines and he's always been a handful for opposing defences, especially if he isolated an opposing player 1v1. I'm more of a fan of 2nd rows that play with pace, like Anthony Watmough and Lee Gilmour in his day, but I could appreciate 'House's qualities and felt he offered us something very different from the back row. He made the odd error but christ, name me a forward of ours that doesn't make daft mistakes? We've said it about near enough all of them over the past five years or so.

Waterhouse - not sure what I think overall, I do feel some disappointment given his background as a Kangaroo international. When he was in good form he was a very good player, up with the best back rowers I've ever seen at Wire. He seemed to have a few too many spells where his form wasn't great. I know a lot of players have ups and downs but I felt like he was average more times than I would have expected. Not a disastrous signing by any means.

Riley - sad to see him go. I have liked Riley for a long time and he's one of the few players of real quality to come out of our Academy. People are quick to diss Riley and hype up the next young big thing but these young big things never seem to go on to score 100 odd tries and win multiple trophies like he did. I was wrong about Riley early on. I saw him as the next Gaskell, someone that would be praised for his attitude but limited as an attacking threat. Then in 2008 he really broke through, he overtook and displaced the erratic Penny and scored bags of tries. I think Riley was only ever grudgingly accepted by our fans because they would have preferred Penny because he was a bit quicker - Riley's try scoring record was better than Penny's but people seemed willing to forgive Penny's flaky moments whereas Riley got criticised all the time.

But well done to him he has had a good career with us and he is one of my favourite all time Warrington players and a symbol of our Academy actually bearing fruit. Will be sad to see him missing permanently from the teamsheet.

Will always have a soft spot for Waterhouse after his playoff try at Langtree in 2012 - when he barged over with saints players on his back, that killed the 'hoodoo' for me well and truly. Kudos, sir!

In the play off game at LP, his 2 tries took us to our 1st ever Grand Final, when he scored the 1st we were marginally up at 18 -14 & Saints were still in the game, he scored the next 2 which took us to 30-14 and at Old Trafford.

I think Trent was great for us, sure he had a few off games but nothing more than that. Thanks for all you did for us in the P & B Trent and my best wishes for the future.

We've come a long way if we're criticising a quality pro like waterhouse when a few years back clowns like gillies were being chairlifted off the field! Give me Trent's contribution over the vastly overrated (during his time here) Danny farrar any day. These people on 'Trent watch' should have done the same with farrar!

I wonder if some of you have a clue what's actually happening on the pitch, Waterhouse is pure class, end of.

Trent's been great for us over the years but you can't deny he's been a little wobbly this year. He'll be hanging up his boots after ending on a high at the end of this season, same as MMonas.

Well said Laughing. What he does defensively to our left edge is so obvious when he isn't playing. Atkins in particular will miss him next year unless his replacement is as good.

Good luck to Riles never gave less than is all. Just not big enough or quick enough to be top class sadly.

I think that, on the whole, Waterhouse has been a goods signing and I cannot understand the vitriol that is hurled at him on this board. I only hope Simms gives us the same service.
I agree that Riley, to some extent, has suffered from having Atkins as his centre. He stands accused of overrunning the play and getting in front of the centre but that could also be a function of the centre delaying the pass too long. Atkins is a great athlete but he will never be world class because of his lack of distribution skills. Riley is accused of poor defence but the defence of our new star full back is a bit flakey IMO yet TS cannot wait to heap praise on him. TS has always seemed to have a downer on Riley to me. He obviously has seen something that I haven't but he is the coach and his judgement has been good up to now. Why he has persevered with Ormsby though I do not understand.

The difference is the expectation level. Danny Farrar was a seasoned pro with knee problems who was about as good as we could sign when we were down near the bottom of the league, and was a good player in that team. Waterhouse was one of the NRL's leading forwards and a full Australia international.

I think there is a great problem with expectations when international / SoO players are signed .. . they may be excellent when seen in these games but i doubt they play that way week in week out, & don't forget these players are coming to us at the end of their careers .

That said ,as far as i am concerned ,Trent has been a very good signing ,not spectacular but steadily consistent . Riley , i do feel sorry for, but his try scoring record speaks for itself .

Correct, it is ALL about expectation in my view.

I think Waterhouse has been average generally with an undoubted decent game, or two thrown in. Whilst he never let us down perhaps the biggest indication to me of his worth, is that all the Waterhouse fanatics, whilst accusing us doubters of not knowing what we are looking at, it's the subtle things blah de blah point to the same crowning glory at Saints in the Play Off's....one match.

BTW I thought he had a good game last Thursday and may yet play a big part in our end of season run in to sign off on a high particularly if we play Saints at Langtree Park, he seems to like it there...it's all about expectation after all.

I think it's a lack of appreciation for overall game and effect on the defence.

WE've seen this week people calling Simon Gillies as being gash, but if you look at the bigger picture, he played right second row for us, Toa was right centre and scored a shedload of tries, reason being defences were scared of Gillies and were doubling up on him, working him harder and therefore left more space for Toa and Scott Wilson (hah) to exploit.

Yeah people do state the saints play off game, mainly because he was unplayable and giving saints kittens that night, but he was fantastic from about halfway through that season after he bedded in and his offloads were integral to the way we played and ground our way up the table that year.

I've said it before and i'll say it again, people were disapointed as they were expecting a solomona/lauititi style crazy offloader. That was never the case.

The fact you've had people since saying we'd have been better off keeping landerson shows you how short term some bods memories are, cos he was getting called rotten after he announced his move and was being kept out the team, he was poor value for money and one dimensional.

Waterhouse may have been disppointing on the surface but overall his defence was excellent, he provided some good go-forward in attack, offloads could be pretty devastating, plus he was one of the best dummy-runners we've seen, creating gaps for his centre and others. First Wembley final against Leeds was a prime example of how much damage he did from this.

Chris Riley is a little unlucky to be, at the end of the day, a bit too small and not quite fast enough. As a finisher , though, he is still terrific, rarely dropped a pass even in very difficult circumstances, and could squeeze into the smallest of gaps, or cut inside/outside at the last moment, to score through a tight defence.

I think it's a sign of maturity and success for the club as a whole that we now see ten or twelve Wire-Academy produced players plying their trade with other clubs. We have to get used to it, as only a few from the Academy will ever be good enough for a top-of-the-table Wire first team.

Good luck to all the lads who are leaving especially chris Riley I have always thought he has his limitations but never gave us less than 100%. Waterhouse has been a good signing in my opinion, as said not so much an impact player but his all round game is good and he leaves as laithwaite has laid his claim to the spot for next season.

They do play that way week in week out in the NRL, otherwise they don't get picked. There is enough competition in the NRL that you only make the Kangaroos squad if you are a world class player that does the business every week.

As for coming at the end of their careers, Chris Hicks joined us at the end of his career. Brett Hodgson joined us at the end of his career. Michael Monaghan this season is in the last season of his career. If you sign the right players its not a problem, you get a player that's on top of his game because of years of accumulated experience, then if you sign some players they are past their best.

But I don't want to knock Waterhouse too much in me saying I was disappointed because he was not quite what I expected, because thats more a reflection on me than him. The frustrating thing is sometimes he was exactly what I expected, when he was in form he was a commanding figure, big, totally confident, he looked like if you had an 18 year old playing in an U15s team.

I agree with Cat on how people underrate Gillies, I never understood why it was fashionable to say Gillies was rubbish, he was a real handful and the players seemed to respect him as leader. For most of that 1999 season when he was captain we were punching well above our weight, maybe he paid the price in everyones memory for a bad end of season when the team just tailed off completely and we finished 7th having been in the top 5 mix most of the year.

That for me is the bottom line. Sometimes he ran the ball in hard and looked the part. Unfortunately this only happened a few times a season. The only thing you can put this down to is effort.

I must say Sally that, not having sky sports or otherwise ,i have never seen any domestic NRL games so, if like you say they play like that every week, no wonder they are quite good in internationals as well !

I wonder if the inspiration on fitness has waned since Morley left?
Are we seeing more injuries this season because these big men are not as fit?

only saying!

No mention of Kevin Penny leaving? Has an extension been announced? I thought he was on a 1 year deal