It could simply be tactical.

In order to give Dean some game time against Catalan at the MW, and in the absence of Cooper, he utilised Jason Clark as interchange dummy half. The inclusion of Dean was fortunate due to Widdop's injury and J Clark had a good game. He repeated this against Castleford but, on this occasion, giving game time to Wrench (another fortuitous move given that Dean was forced off with a head knock). The less said about the end result the better but I very much doubt that Walker's inclusion would have done much to alter that.

He has had Covid which has kept him out for last 2 games.

Sounds like Darryl Powell is the type of man we need running some of our unionised industries.

To kick the money obsessed Tory bosses out, right?

Let's hope it's not the Cooper variant..

I’ve never read so much bollox on here…
‘The bad apples!’,‘He’s in Coopers gang’…
Have a word with yourselves, I’d expect better on this board than Warrington Casuals!

It’s obvious Walker was dropped because he failed to make the grades Powell asked of him to improve his game, and his previous performances were poor, imo after his purple patch earlier this season, extremely poor!

Walker has been training and my guess is he’ll play v KR, because (a) he needs the opportunity to prove himself and (b) because Clark needs to be covered with cotton wool at 29/30. We just can’t be asking him to do 80 mins every week if we want to prolong his career.
I can see Minikin returning this week too, because Thewlis was pants, found wanting on the wing.

Dufty to play fullback at Huddersfield with Ratchford back in the halves and Riley Dean back out of the 1st team… On Dufty, I’m still mindful that the Sandow 6 week quick fix was anything but.

Quack

Glass houses and stones

Just read in the Warrington Guardian that the Super League signing deadline for this season`s recruitment is tomorrow.

Hence the reason why Cooper was moved on early, to allow for Dufty to play for Wire in 2022.

That mean dufty is our last signing? Gutted, was hoping for a few more, it's getting a bit boring!!

So Dufty is our Graham Appo, 20 years later pretty much to the day, brought in to save us from relegation. Let’s hope he has an Appo style first full year, but not an Appo style honeymoon year where he arrives back from Aus 5 stone heavier…

Walker is free to leave too apparently. Will be gone at the end of the season regardless.

He has been “vocal” in his defence of Cooper, which hasn’t gone well with the Ayatollah

Not true.
Who you quoting with “vocal”?

Not a direct quote, just summarising that he voiced discontent at the situation.

Where did you read this to summarise it?
If that was true, I doubt very much he’d have been added back to the squad.
Walker has been great, but his form has been poor, he was dropped. I know he is not in the slightest gobby.