Imagine how bad he will be next season?

Its a very awkward dilemma for the club, we are desperate for a backrower who has ball playing skills with leadership qualities and at the same time produce consistent quality performances, Wilkin very rarely comes up with all these attributes on a regular basis. He is also our captain and has inherited the pressure that goes along with the position and is expected to cover for half back injuries.

We've never replaced Manu and we've had to change our structure with Greenwood and LMS operating out wide but they don't have the ball handling skills of our past players. Wilkin does too many tackles which drops his energy levels hence effecting his passing and kicking skills.

Still wonder if Wilkin has as much on his mind outside the game as in now, rightly he is looking to his future.

Probably still jet-lagged from his trip.

Nothing a few Caipirinha cocktails won't sort out.

Worst thing with the Wilkin situation imo is the fact we have a young hungry strong runner in Andre Savelio out on loan at cas and probably finished at Saints and we've got a old run down poor player like Wilkin keeping him out.

I think its more that Greenwood, Thompson and Knowles is keeping him out of the side, these 3 are now very much becoming established and providing plenty of energy and contribution to the team. If Sav comes back he needs to really make himself an automatic choice but I'm not sure if Cunningham will give him that opportunity he likes to play percentages and have a few experienced old heads in the team despite low par performances.

Then I dont see why we fought off Warrington to keep him

At that time Thompson was putting up better performances but picking up injuries, Knowles wasn't quite in the picture in that time frame, Sav has loads of potential but he's a victim of circumstance and had just been overtaken in the pecking order.

Font think him coming to write was ever on the cards but got him a better contract

I know for fact it was very close to happening and Warrington thought it was in the bag