Responded to a fan saying that he couldn't blame Batch fro leaving as he was offered less money saying that was simply untrue....then when asked for more details said we had offered him 10% more than his current contract.

So that's our CEO posting under his own name on the official Trinity Facebook page against someone posting behind a username on rlfans....make up your own mind what the truth is! Don't get why someone would say something is 100% right when it clearly isn't? Quite embarrassing really....

Gutted to see Batch leave by the way...probably the worst I've felt about an outgoing player since Solomona went to Bradford....just the fact it seems more a sideways move than anything else...personally think Batch is better than HKR without trying to disrespect them....if t had been a bigger club would probably have been more understandable...

Just hitting his prime...think he can become one of the best British back rowers in the game...a real shame it won't be with us...

Yep, you've got a quality player there, mate...we were all gutted when we heard he was leaving. He will go well for you this year

You've snagged a bargain in Batch, 100% effort every game and a very skilful 2nd row who can, as you saw yesterday, put a decent stint in at centre. Our biggest loss last season IMHO...I'd have kept him over TJ.

Yes agree with all that. I would also add that he is an excellent goal kicker to add to his talents.
People rave about his brother at Saints but I think if he was with the same club he would be at another level.

I've seen both Joe and James play since they were 8, Joe played in my eldest lads team and I even coach James at U8/9/10's, Both are very good goal kickers and both have played every position as a junior, I would agree that at Junior level James showed more potential than Joe, but this is a case of coaching and Joe has spent some time working under different coaches at different clubs and maybe is the better player now, one things for sure I don't think we saw the best of James at Wakefield.

The lads moved on , end of , we’ve wished him well for the future and for me that’s it . I’m looking forwards to the next lad who we bring through the ranks and the next and so on , no good moping , we’ve a table / mountain to climb starting with Wigan