Crookes's contract is up at the end of the year and he's already said he wants a new deal. Time to sort it before other clubs are alerted to his talent. He's taken time to come through but he seems to be coming good now.

As for the others, we need to be savvy enough to create enough space under the cap to keep them. As for the likes of Hull spalshing the cash, if we can continue to improve then maybe our kids will want to stay? We could do with building a club loyalty like Leeds have where most of their key players have chosen to stick around.

Whitehead has just tweeted that the rumours are 'definitely not true'. Good news for now, but I hope hard work is continuing to get him signed up for the long term.

Is Micky G being used as a stalking horse?? or looking at him a tethered goat? maybe!

How does Whitehead know the rumours are not true, MicktheGled only says Adam Pearson is planning a big money signing and that Whitehead was the name mentioned, not that a move as been made.

I'd be more worried about other teams trying to get hold of Bateman

Well Bateman's under contract for another 2 years and signed for us in the face of much higher offers. He's a Bradford lad and a Bulls fan so that obviously played a part in his decision last time. Hopefully it will again, in the meantime I'd day he needs to keep doing what he's doing.

Clubs like Warrington who like to splash the cash and stockpile youngsters can make the offers but I hope he sticks with us where he's getting 1st team rugby in his hometown team.

What's Ben Helliwell doing nowadays? Noticed he's not figure in Wire's reserve grades for a while. There's an example of a kid who went for the money and hasn't got anywhere.

As already stated we have quite a few fringe players we can offload to make space and one or two injury prone players who we should also offload. We have a really good core of talented home grown players who we need to keep hold of!

Craig Kopczak
Elliott Whitehead
Danny Addy
Tom Burgess
Jason Crookes
James Donaldson
Adam O'Brien
Tom Olbison
Karl Pryce
Cain Southernwood
Liam McAvoy
Jobe Murphy
Alex Ball

On loan to York sort of sits in my mind? Red will be able to advise.

Re Helliwell, that was.

We need some totally unconnected third party to pay the players loads for image rights, or to give a lucrative job to the players' partners or give them a special deal in, say, the entertainment industry.

Wondered where he'd gone.

How did you manage it when you had an international packed side a few years back?...

So you don't really have much room to complain??

Remember, we lost Sculthorpe and Harris to the 'chequebook predators', so it won't be anything new when you lose your highly promising youngsters (and you do have a couple of crackers), to richer, more ambitious, clubs.

We were never a rich club. We have always been ambitious. What we lack is a wealthy owner, and all the myriad of options that that presents.

Why don't we just call it the Warrington Way.

we need to do a leeds and get our young lads tied down on 5 year contracts an build a team around the likes of bateman, whitehead, burgess, crookes etc if offers do come in (and im sure they will) i suppose we will see where we are and if we want to be successful or a mid table selling cub