Spot on.

The hurried signing of Patrick Bateman shows me Fitz is out for the foreseeable.

Very trademark Warrington performance on a sunny Sunday afternoon against a team we 'should' be beating. You could teleport that performance to almost any Wire era and it would fit in.

I think the main thing is we won and the fact we didn't win by 80 is neither here nor there. But I do hope that Burgess gives them a kick up the for how lacking in intensity we were in defence and I really hope he kept the receipt for Bateman.

I hear Fitzgibbon may not play again and I suppose, from a wire recruitment perspective, Bateman was the best we could do. For me Fitzgibbon has been a wonderful signing and integral to our whole game - he’s been a massive loss.

And also…aligning ourselves with the utter helmet Ant Middleton is not great PR.

Yet Burgess keeps saying he’s a week or so away? I seem to hear this a lot - so not a pop or owt, but seems strange this rumour persists when Burgess is saying otherwise?

From what I know he is likely to retire at the end of the season. He may want to play the last few games jabbed up or likely not. Gutting as he’s been a superb overseas signing.

That would be a real shame, been fantastic.

Jesus! I thought it was a season ender? but never would I have thought it was his career done gutted for the lad if it's true.

Hopefully this is just a rumour as he has been superb for us, would be a very hard like for like replacement for him. And Bateman is NOT the replacement we need.
If he does retire i will be gutted for him.

Bateman won’t be his replacement thankfully but whoever it is has huge boots to fill.

Does not make sense. He was named in the 21 for both Wigan and HKR games granted he did not play but if he is done as you say why would he even be named in the 21.

Also as said by someone else why would Burgess say he is close to playing etc. I really hope it’s just rumour because based on today Bateman is not the answer. Think Bateman got confused with the hot weather and thought he was still in Australia.

As above I never said he was definitely done for this season.

It's the customary drop of energy and intensity we get with warrington after big wins. We saw it first after Saints in the cup. And now again after beating saints and Wigan.

But we got the 2 points and are 3rd in the league.

This. We now have 6 games to navigate before the business end of the season, to finish as high as we can.