I would love nothing better for him to develop into a top player. Unfortunately he has a bad reputation and it would be unfair on the bloke to fuel it further with rumours.

Totally agree. Some of the stuff I hear from people I trust about Bridge beggars belief. Dave T is good poster but an apologist for all things Warrington. I believe he was still clinging on to Cullens leg as he walked to his car being dragged across Tesco carpark crying "don't leave, you need more time" after he resigned/was sacked.

I don't think i'm foolishly speculating at all.

Whereas I don't think he's performed when starting games as halfback I think he has really performed at centre sometimes popping up to cover halfback very well.

If asked Bridge or Atkins I would say Bridge because he has shown more than enough this year that he has the ability and that he can learn and there are games that you can see he has been developing there.

Therefore, if he was to go what would be the reason? On field or Off field? He's too valuable on field for me so I can't help but think off field.

The reason I used the Harrison incident is that Harrison appears to be highly rated by Smith and he may not want bad influences.

I agree wholeheartedly! I personally think Bridge is the better player.
Harrison's an adult who can get himself into trouble, shouldn't need outside influences.

Like Dave T says many top class players have had problems with off field stuff, you can get away with a bit if you are top class (Brett Stewart, Craig Gower, Mark Gasnier etc)

Then you get the likes of Craig Field who were good but not quite top class enough to get away with it. I'd put Bridge in that category.

He does seem to have done quite well this season but if he was a player at another club and we were looking at signing him I doubt there would be widespread excitement at signing him, we would all be pointing at his injury record and disciplinary record and asking could he be the wrong kind of player to fit the Tony Smith mould.

With Atkins and King in the centres plus possibly Simon Grix (a better bet than Bridge) and Myler/Briers/Monaghan in the halves its difficult to see where Bridge would fit into the starting line up, he would be a squad player next season at best so I can see this rumour being realistic.

You reckon?

Had a text thee other day that Clarke is going Castleford.



Don't shoot the messenger.

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Aye Hudson might have to retire due to his injuries this year.

I must admit that Bridge excites me more than Atkins.

Saying that he doesn't have enough class to get away with 'it'. What is 'it'?

I just see a pretty good RL player who has the potential to be a very good player, and one that has already made the loss of a Test centre no big deal at all.

This is sort of my point overall, people keep banging on about his issues, yet he is still better than many centres knocking around, many of whom have no 'it' to talk about.

We have all had the rumours about Briers for years, and now many want to kiss his ar$e, so I make no apologies for supporting a Wire player and going with what the coach wants.

Your still specualting in all of the above. Re: that incident in town you dont what went on and appear to be assuming it was wrong doing which may or may not have been the case.

Not really Dave.
Briers never ended up in court over something to do with an ambulance.
Like I said before I reeally hope we keep Bridge but pretending he doesn't have aggression/personality issues is daft.