Heard from a good source that he won't be playing for us next season.It appears that the operations he requires will take up half of the season to recover from and after that he will be "shipped out" to another club to regain his fitness - I guess a Championship side.This means he is not on the payroll and so does not count in the salary cap.

That would be e for us

I hadn't heard the reasons, but I had also heard from a very good source that he is being de-registered.

Shame. Hope he'll be back when he's back to full fitness. He's been a great servant for us, at his worst he's been solid. We aren't messing around it seems for next year. Made some hard decisions with Grix and Monaghan etc.

He's been a good'un for us. The search for a prop goes on.

Another prop down if true, don't understand why we'd let England go if so.

Perhaps the club have known what was coming and have decided to use salaries of Harrison and England to up the level of prop we go for plus promote from the younger boys. Its very intriguing this prop search. Same for Harrison though.

If it means we get back the Harrison of old in 2017 I'm all for it. This should free enough cap space for a top drawer prop. Props of Hill, Sims, Dodds plus one quality addition, with Westwood as backup is good enough for me. We'd still have Evans, King, Philbin etc to come in if a few injuries strike.

Hopefully there is enough quality out there available to bring in, all seems to have gone a bit quiet...

We do seem to be squeezing every drop out of the cap. It makes sense to try and avoid using cap space on players that are going to be out for big parts of the season / take a long period to get back to their best.

I think there's a balance though between being clever with the finances and being unfair to some long standing loyal players if it is not handled in the right way.

Things like this can risk upsetting the dressing room.

I think we are looking after them. Harrison can still be paid if deregistered from the cap, as long as doesn't play for us. He's obviously had some issues for a year or two, so is probably looking forward to sorting them out. Ditto with Grix, we've given him a job while he recovers, if he does get back to fitness, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see him back at the club.

I think the club will still look after players like Harrison , but they do seem to be freeing up salary money , hopefully the attitude has changed slightly and hopefully soon we should see an announcement on a quality prop ??? Who would you go for now?

Starts with Sam ends in urgess

Would be a major coup if he signed for the wire !!!

I know there's only a very slim chance but with the evident change in approach to transfers / cap nothing would suprise me!

Just can't see it. If he were to end up back in league, and in this country it'd probably end up being in a Leeds shirt, if the rumours are to be believed. But If there's a chance, and it's within the club's financial reach I'd love the club to go all out and try. I wont be holding my breath though.

Would the clubs insurance for Harrison cover his time out injured, taking him off the playing register but keeping him financially secure.

We are sort of back to where we were at pre season last year.
So positions 8,10 & 13 we have Hill, King,Simms, Dodds, Evans, Westerham and maybe Westwood. one long term injury and we will suffer.
For 11 & 12 we have Currie Wilde, Hughes and Philbin with Laithwaite possibly returning some point in the season.
Our ability to rotate or rest players is limited with the current squad if the Harrison rumour is true.
I know that players can have a terrible injury and come back and play a number of years without a problem but when you look at the injuries that Dodds, Laithwaite and Evans have had it is rolling a dice to some degree.
Another forward is needed. Shame for Harrison. He does a lot of work that goes Un noticed

Always fun when someone makes a statement like this with their very first post after first having registered 3 days ago. Absolutely everyone has assumed that it's correct and Ben Harrison has already been taken to the knackers yard and is now 36 cans of Pedigree Chum. The Club made 3 announcements today, this wasn't one of them. Have any of you thought that this might not be correct?

Given the nature of the claims, it doesn't warrant an announcement does it?

It is correct.

Dunno about the registration bit, but it's been mentioned a few times over the last couple of weeks about him needing an operation to clean his knee up, which would put him out for ages.

I have heard it will happen pending the complications around a testimonial. If we de-register Harrison, he will end 9 years with the club, and with it, the benefits/money that comes with the testimonal.

It would be very unfair of any club to release a player like Ben without testimonial and I don't think for one minute Warrington would do it. He is a top lad and truly deserves his testimonial he does a lot around Warrington charity wise which a lot of the time is un-reported.

Chris Riley spent 9 years at Warrington without a testimonal. Ben Harrison has been here for 9 years also. If he does move on it will be interesting to see what will happen. I hope he does come back if he does leave.

Possibly different circumstances?