All the more reason to ambush the deal.

ryan is from leeds or sumet so i dont think he would refuse a contract from the rhinos

Dont know if it is just me but i think a lot of the reason were doing ok this season is because we kept pretty much the sqaud we had from last year. If all the so called rumours are correct then we are gonna be almost a new team.

Brad Drew

Mat Peterson

Ryan Atkins

Ollie Wilkes

Tony Martin

Danny Brough

Steve Snitch

Gonna take time to gel again

tHATS TERRIBLE NEWS. Atkins still can get better at passing the ball his physical attributes hes a monster and a young british centre. Evans a back up centre for Gleeson and Atkins yes thats great. Evans a replacement for Atkins very poor indeed !

Not really a Monster!

my concern is also that with so many leaving (if true), then we will take time to gel.



it is no coincidence that the teams with the least turnover of players, do the better the following year. we ourselves are proof of that.



we need to keep a nucleas of players together, but our nucleas could be a lot smaller than others!!!



the other concern for me is that we seem to be linked with "journeymen" players as replacements. i know that we all want to see a team of stars and that is not possible at wakey, but at least a couple of stars are required.



maybe henderson to replace atkins at centre............(said in jest, but you never know...???)

Were there any quotes to go with the article, from anyone that would be involved in the deal?



I'll reserve judgement until it's official, but as gutted as I'd be to lose Atkins I'm sure wiley old JK will have a plan up his sleeve.

i wouldn't be too concerned about journeymen. we have a couple going out and a couple coming in. as long as we keep the nucleus of the team together. well satisfied with the signings up to press. the pack should be awesome next season and if we secure the services of a good 6 with brough. blanche back and i think there may be another signing to come, think we will do ok. jk seems to be steering things along well.

There could be some truth to this LE article for once. I heard a few weeks ago that we would be losing one of our England internationals at the end of the year & that a fee would come our way. I think we'll be getting somewhere in the region of £70k for Ryan, but at least we don't have to spend immediately on finding a replacement - after all we've had a centre playing out of position in the pack for the last couple of years....JD. He isn't exactly my candidate for MOS this year, but he's still far more capable in the backs than he is in the pack.

i have every faith in john kear whatever happens to mould a team and make it gel whoever comes in and who goes

This dual coaching role concerns me too.



‘Come to Warrington on slightly less money than other clubs can offer, but you’ll top it up when I select you for the England squad’

Good point, not thought of it like that. Even if it isn't abused, it is an issue the RFL should have considered & possibly safguarded against.