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I know its the Sun and its Dave Parker but it will give you something to talk about on a friday...

Another 2nd rower?

Benny comming home , dont post round that area any more but im sypure peeps on here can either confirm denie or just put an emotion on the board

By the way great signing , just happy Sykes skull is ok

Wonder if it had been a premiership er if it had just been mentioned as an after thought !!!!!

Atkins was a bulls academy product back when the games used to be on sky midweek. He scored tries for fun but then got a horrendous injury that Bradford thought he would never recover fully from. We snapped him up once his rehabilitation was done as far as I know.

Can't honestly see Ben coming home but would be delighted if he did.

A shadow of his former self.
I would have bit your hand off a couple of years ago, but not now.

Really, I'd bite your hand off for Ben!

That wouldn't come as a surprise!!!

Think Westwood is big enough and robust enough to feature in the front row now.

As an aside i see Tom Lilycrop is rumoured to be on the radar of the NZ Warriors.

They certainly need a freshen up at Warrington as a few of there players are looking like its a year too far. I would snap there hand off for Ben although I would have thought he'd be below Morley, Hodgson, M Monaghan, Waterhouse in the list of players to be on there way

Although it's only a rumour it would be a fantastic signing, and anyone who does not needs to give their head a shake. Up their with Gareth Ellis in my opinion, get rid of Mellars and we have a straight swap. Also why we ever got rid of Lillycrop I will never know.

Ben is an excellent goal kicker as well remember.

You cannot be serious!

John Mcenroe?!?!?!?
Who else can you do?

I've seen little of him this season that says to me he is at the peak of his powers, i though he was fairly anonymous against a "poor us" last weekend.
A good side knows when to let its good players go, perhaps Warrington are looking to clear the decks.
Short term; a Annakin for Westwood swap (which was what i was commenting about) would be a sideways move for us, long term it would be a significant step backwards - IMO of course!!

Westwood would be a fantastic signing for us - the guy's an absolute machine and would bring some much needed steel and experience to the side.

An unlikely move but would certainly beef up our defence were it to be true.

Agree with this. Tony Smith is not daft - if Wire let BW go its because he's not likely to be effective for much longer. Short term I'm sure he would be a quick fix. I don't know where the Anakin bit came from but that would be absolutely idiotic move to include him as part of any future deal. It really would convince me once and for all that there's no point grooming your own players -you may as well pick them off from other club

What swap this?

Don't think Westwood will be going anywhere, he's got another year on his contract and Wire have other players that are retiring or moving on at the end of the season that need sorting, so there's no chance they'd let Westwood go as well imo.

Do you regret signing Ali?

That's the same scenario. Infact, Westwood is still showing far more left in the tank than Ali was doing in his last couple of years at Leeds.

New clubs reignite players. But I would think Westwood is way out of your leage for another couple of years at least.

Would be nice to have Westwood back home. Lillycrop we should never of let go he was brilliant in the academy last year daft to let him go. We should have gave him a deal then gone dual reg to doncaster.

Really

Course he is dipstick. He was a clear man of steel only last year. Just because writers fornicate over Tomkins, doesn't mean that the reality wasn't that Westwood was MOS.

There is no way on earth that Warrington will let him go for another couple of years.

there's more to life than rugby though, Ben is from Normanton maybe he wants to move to a club back to where he comes from? He never wanted to leave Wakefield in the first place apparently...