Quote: Boss Hog "Just read in this morning`s Warrington Guardian that King will still be contracted to us, for a further 2 years, after next year`s loan deal with Wigan expires.'" You are quite right. November 2025. Jesus. https://warringtonwolves.com/news/2021/ ... term-deal/

Quote: Boss Hog "Just read in this morning`s Warrington Guardian that King will still be contracted to us, for a further 2 years, after next year`s loan deal with Wigan expires.'" You are quite right. November 2025. Jesus. https://warringtonwolves.com/news/2021/ ... term-deal/

Ben Currie was from Wigan's Scholarship system, so a debate as to whether that constitutes "home grown".

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... lves-move/ It all seems a very strange situation

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... lves-move/ It all seems a very strange situation

The Scholarship system is only schoolboy rugby, on a completely amateur basis.

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The town of Wigan and the club that is Wigan produce a lot of fine players, and of course many of those players grow up in the town and then go on to the club at some level. But I must admit that the way anyone who fits into either category gets marked as a 'Wigan product' winds me up a lot.

Currie is from within the Wigan catchment area but is not a 'Wigan product' at all. He was coached in the Warrington system.

Wigan (club) also take young lads from outside Wigan and give them great coaching. McIlorum from Leeds, Nicholson from Halifax, etc.

With Wrench missing the 1st half of next season, we will need to sign another centre from somewhere.

It should be Wardle, I'd be a lot happier with ratchford at centre than in the halves though. I'd rather us sign another right centre as well to be honest but I doubt cap would allow that.

Sounds like we've really bolloxed this up

Depends who we can get in, I must admit I’ve not been too impressed with Wardle’s positional play, seems to regularly jump the line or be caught out of position from the highlights I’ve seen. He’s been good going forward though.

Could of course be a bit of posturing, at the end of the day they have a player who isn’t too keen on being there and I’m sure we’d be willing to pay a fee if required.

Maybe King to Wigan was a much better deal for us financially.

This is Huddersfield just playing 'hard ball'.
Jake spat his dummy out big time at not being selected for the Challenge Cup Final. So any (unlikely) return to Huddersfield would need a major climb down, by both parties. Watson is not well known for doing such, so a stalemate may exist there for some time.
Equally King has been a massive disappointment really and coupled with his (rumoured) 3k per week contract he would have distorted the salary cap too much also. Wigan's accountant being much more 'creative' sees no problem!

As it stands the only possible reading is that we've let one international centre go out to a rival and that the international centre we did want isn't coming/staying. So we have no left centre.

Up to the club to disabuse us of that reading really.

The requisite transfer fee to secure Wardle`s signature would bring him to Warrington.

Doubt Huddersfield will release him from his contract for nothing.

We seem determined to sign another halfback from the NRL, but if we do, that is the last quota spot used-up.

Any centre that we sign would then have to be British (Please NOT Gildart!!! ), and with Wrench coming back hopefully to play centre in mid-season, it probably won`t be a high profile signing.