For the rest of the year. That'll offset losing Atkins.

Didn't we have one open anyways?

I believe we are allowed 7 and we now have;
Tyrone Roberts, Bryson Goodwin, BMM, Sita Akuola, Mitch Brown, Ben Pomeroy plus Bodene Thompson. That's a full house.

So it looks as though this has all been carefully planned beforehand with the likelihood of Leigh failing to make the top 4, and the loan of Crosby to Leeds in order to make cap space.
Perhaps the short contract is a bit of a 'try buy' to see if it works out. Ben Pomeroy is OOC this year and will be 35 next season, so Thompson could be a potential replacement.

Not a lot wrong with this signing and also, potentially, explains the release of Crosby.

We have sufficient numbers, if not quality, in the front row but we could benefit from some additional cover in the back row. Pomeroy has filled in but I think that he is more of a 3/4.

Still 11 weeks until the Grand Final (fingers crossed). 25 games played, including the CC, up to 12 to go if we were to reach both finals. We started the season with a small squad, 2 players released, 2 out for the season, 1 starting player out for several weeks and who knows what sort of injuries the remaining players are carrying.

Welcome on board Mr Thompson, happy to have you.

Yes. Good business off-loading injury prone/sicknote Crosby, for the hard, nuggety Thompson who has played 25 games this season.

Jason Clark already signed for next year too with Austin replacing Roberts. So for Thompson to get a deal next year we’d need to lose Pomeroy plus ANother?

Yes, Jason Clark will certainly be earning more than Crosby, who I assume is the exchange. There could possibly be a bit of a clear out at the fringes; Jack Johnson, Taylor Prell, Pat Moran and Mitch Brown, who I think will be 31 next year anyway. Together with the departure of Pomeroy, that would allow a decent salary for Thompson. Meanwhile I guess George King will make way for Matt Davis on a similar salary, whilst Roberts and Austin will exchange salaries as well.


Have we already completed our squad changes for 2019 ?

Welcome to Wire Bodene. Hopefully Moran and Johnson will be retained; they are real prospects. Prell - we will never know how good he is, as he has never been given a chance in the first team.

There are a few contracts to be done on existing players. Kevin Brown & Benny Westwood.

I am guessing that they may both be retained but on lower salaries.

If Mitch Brown and Jack Johnson did leave, I don't think we would have cover at FB. Perhaps Johnson might be retained, particularly as he has not had the opportunity to play this year ?

Morgan Smith will still be contracted in 2019, but I suppose he could be vulnerable as well depending on how aggressive Pice is with his restructuring.

lol talk about exaggeration. Wigan in the 80s signed all the best players from every club to build a team that dominated rugby league. I'm not sure thats how you would describe our approach to recruitment in the past few years...

And without cheating and Tesco almost ended up like leigh.

www.seriousaboutrl.com/warringto ... inu-18159/ Not sure about that. We have 3 centres, do we need another?

www.seriousaboutrl.com/warringto ... inu-18159/ Not sure about that. We have 3 centres, do we need another?

God no, steer effing clear.

My radar was crackling that Dec is Wakefield bound and Reece Lynn coming our way?

Reece Lyne only just signed a new four and a half year contract in August.

Dec also signed a new contract. So that should even it up.

Steve Price said yesterday that we are looking to sign two more outside backs.

Your radar is way off.

I suppose he has Pomeroy and Brown to replace for 2019 - Inu would want a decent salary you would expect so I don't think he'd fit with the players leaving, who were both probably content with playing as a back up squad player.

I'd steer clear of Inu too, he's put some decent performances for Widnes the odd time I've seen him, but picks up injuries and quite frankly, his performances at Catalan were disgraceful - just looked like he didn't care most of the time.

I hope it is, I think we can do better than Lynn and my son would be a little upset if is mate went to Wakey

I wonder how much Catalans would want for Tony Gigot? Tremendous player.

We could then get rid of Brown and play Ratchford at halfback with Austin.

Ratchford is not an organising half-back and neither is Austin. Brown, on reasonable form, is the better bet.

Absolutely. We need a classic little cheeky half-back who can steer the troops round the park... He doesn't even need to attack the line as we have Austin for that.

Also, Ratchford has finally proven that he's more than a jack-of-all-trades, and playing consistently at No.1 he's shown he can be the best British fullback in this league. I don't include Hardaker in that assessment as you can't count on him being available to play.

Don't we need to replace Lineham too? I thought his contract finishes this year and he was wanting to get back to Yorkshire.