Let's hope it's not the Cooper variant..

I’ve never read so much bollox on here…
‘The bad apples!’,‘He’s in Coopers gang’…
Have a word with yourselves, I’d expect better on this board than Warrington Casuals!

It’s obvious Walker was dropped because he failed to make the grades Powell asked of him to improve his game, and his previous performances were poor, imo after his purple patch earlier this season, extremely poor!

Walker has been training and my guess is he’ll play v KR, because (a) he needs the opportunity to prove himself and (b) because Clark needs to be covered with cotton wool at 29/30. We just can’t be asking him to do 80 mins every week if we want to prolong his career.
I can see Minikin returning this week too, because Thewlis was pants, found wanting on the wing.

Dufty to play fullback at Huddersfield with Ratchford back in the halves and Riley Dean back out of the 1st team… On Dufty, I’m still mindful that the Sandow 6 week quick fix was anything but.

Quack

Glass houses and stones

Just read in the Warrington Guardian that the Super League signing deadline for this season`s recruitment is tomorrow.

Hence the reason why Cooper was moved on early, to allow for Dufty to play for Wire in 2022.

That mean dufty is our last signing? Gutted, was hoping for a few more, it's getting a bit boring!!

So Dufty is our Graham Appo, 20 years later pretty much to the day, brought in to save us from relegation. Let’s hope he has an Appo style first full year, but not an Appo style honeymoon year where he arrives back from Aus 5 stone heavier…

Walker is free to leave too apparently. Will be gone at the end of the season regardless.

He has been “vocal” in his defence of Cooper, which hasn’t gone well with the Ayatollah

Not true.
Who you quoting with “vocal”?

Not a direct quote, just summarising that he voiced discontent at the situation.

Where did you read this to summarise it?
If that was true, I doubt very much he’d have been added back to the squad.
Walker has been great, but his form has been poor, he was dropped. I know he is not in the slightest gobby.

Are there any other first team players available for selection that are not named in the squad? Remember Cooper and King were being shopped while still playing at the weekend.

Danny Walker is vital to providing variety from dummy half. For all he is "good" Daz Clark is pretty one dimensional at times. Perhaps Mr Powell has heard that Brad Dwyer is leaving Leeds .

We have just lost our fullback…it’s hardly rocket science to work that Powell doesn’t think Riley Dean is ready for regular SL. With that, it’s now the area we need filling with urgency. The Cooper and King deals were done in days, more probably hours and until that point of leaving, they are still wire players on a payroll.

You asked why he is in the squad. I responded implying that there are no other fit first team players. If he was being considered for selection, unless he wasn’t fit at the time, common sense would have been at Magic. Widdop was fit, Williams played. Ratchford and Matautia played. We had a back up for fullback on the wing and Currie and Nicholson are capable of centre cover. Yet he put Dean on the bench, and recalled him to do so. Unless there is some premonition that Widdop was to bust his shoulder, I can’t understand the logic of having a half on the bench with all of those options on the field. Another forward or a back up dummy half would have made sense.

I've mentioned this a couple of times, our standard bench set up has been, 3 middles and walker to spell clark, or Davis in th3 walker spot.

Contrast this with saints who prior to this year had welsby on the bench who got minutes wherever aside from prop, he just filled in, he got time on the field then last year had his break out (which again was filling in half/fb/centre or wing, then saints had Dodd as a fixture on the bench, they were able to do this as they hadn't committed to the two hookers tactic. It appears now that Powell is trying to do this accommodate at least one junior player on the bench, if he can't fit them into the starting line up.

So….we’ll see tomorrow whether he’s in the 17 or not and take it from there. All I know is that no one on here knows…..except Duckie…..who NEVER knows, so he may not know that he doesn’t know. You know?

No, get Powell in to run a train operator. He will tell the staff: you've been in comfort zone for the past few years having it easy. The public have the right to expect more. We're going to modernise things round here.

Then Mick Lynch and his RMT pals pop up saying we're not having this we're going to ballot for a strike.

DP says fine, if you won't modernise get out, I'll hire agency workers to do the job instead.

The money obsessed Tory bosses back DP to the hilt.

Now the big question is, do those agency workers come in and lead to an improvement in rail performance, or does the system completely collapse and the public say you know what we were actually better under the old regime!

Eventually, a far left revolution would happen, and railways and rugby league would both be nationalised. Then Warrington could go back to being just about good enough to function, with the odd catastrophe every now and then. Just like British Rail.

Certainly played his part in the final training session today.

Excellent.

You’re extolling the virtues of rail privatisation there champion, do carry on……should be interesting, especially if you can garner some public support for how users of said service feel about the last 20 or so years of privatisation of railways.

Or better still just jail the Tory bosses of these failed, privatised, taxpayers cash guzzling cartels



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This really isn't Danny Walker or Warrington RLFC, so please feel free to take your thoughts to the Sin Bin.

I'll leave the thread open for now, as there's a game this evening on the basis of will he, won't he, and if does how did he do(dee).

He’s back! On the bench….