I interviewed Stefan a while back. Great guy - such a shame he's gone to Wire www.dropgoalrl.co.uk/drop-goal-r ... hford.html

I interviewed Stefan a while back. Great guy - such a shame he's gone to Wire www.dropgoalrl.co.uk/drop-goal-r ... hford.html

It's always a shame to see an academy product go (especially to Wire), but that's life. No doubt we will miss Ratchford, but if he wants to leave, then best of luck for the future (just not when he lines up against Salford). On the positive side, his leaving does create an opportunity for someone else to step up. IMHO we needed another centre regardless. Sneyd has been impressive this year, could Ratch leaving could be his chance at halfback?

Still shame it's Wire and not Wigan.

I wish him well, has been a great player not the finished article but in the Warrington team I predict good things. I am ed off, Jordan Turner, Ritchie Myler & now Stefan Ratchford!
We are only ever going to survive by bring young good players through & selling on to survive, unless we start to attract a new fan base, lets hope the new stadium kicks us on so we don't face this disappointment at the end of every season.

Good luck Ratch & I for one wish you well in a short career.

Good luck at wire Ratchford.

If you had to pick the Salford team for the rest of the season, would you still put him in the squad or try new combinations?

Something serious wrong deep down at our great club,ffs how many more good young players are we gonna loose??? even when we offer em decent money contracts they choose to leg it!!!

I find a simple comfort in just blaming you.
However irrational it seems, to me - you are the problem.

Ahhhh...

Are you plain stupid?

Warrington's signings from Salford:

Richie Myler
Stefan Ratchford

Salford signings from Warrington:

Adam Neal
Vinnie Anderson
Richie Barnett
Ian Sibbit
Mike Wainwright

That's just off the top of my head.

Nice to see the first case of Sporting Bipolar Disorder post franchise.

Unfortunately it was from the King of SBD, so the excitement is limited.

Oh well.

Don't know if he had a choice, but IMO he has dropped a bollock going to Warrington rather than Saints or Wigan.

should not play again this season, give the players who will playing for us next season a chances to show there skills.

AGREED BRIAN!! prepare for the backlash off the regulars on here for such a bad comment though!!

he won't be playing now due to injury, plus I doubt MP would pick him because he will not be part of his plays and plans for next season.

This is just what happens, players move up a food chain depending on how much resources a club has and how close they are to winning trophies, we were in exactly this situation for many years.

If you think losing Myler and Ratchford is annoying then think what a kick in the teeth it was to produce Harris and Sculthorpe in our own Academy then watch them being pinched by other clubs and go on to win 3 Man of Steels and 5 Super League titles between them. I bet Myler and Ratchford don't do that.

Warrington are now in a position where we can be in a position to compete for talented players but we know what it was like to be in the situation Salford are in and if Salford's stadium move goes well like ours did, and Salford start to get some good solid revenue in, Salford will do exactly the same, they will be competing for other young players, they wouldn't just leave them at their home club on principle....in fact Salford already took Myler and Robinson from other clubs.

Also I don't buy this line that Warrington can't develop their own talent - we might not have produced as much as Saints, Wigan or Leeds say, but we've produced Paul Wood, Harrison and Riley who are all decent players, that record matches up at least as well as what Salford have produced in the same time period. What Warrington have also done quite successfully is picked up young players from other clubs who showed talent but maybe had question marks about them, like Briers, Bridge and Westwood, and these guys have gone on to be top players with us. I would put Ratchford in that category (also Atkins). He's not a Harris or Scully type signing, he's a young player with talent but question marks.

I blame everyone who paid to see Take That.