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.

If we can get back to the form we had in some of our good wins I fancy our run in more than HKR and Wigan. Top 2 is still well on.

We played a good attacking side full of confidence in the sun whilst we had a few missing. I expected a tough game today and we got one and still got 2 points.

We won’t have Williams for a few weeks so a little dip is fine now as long as we’re back up and running in 6 weeks.

Think any of the current top 5 could win it

Where are you getting this from. Burgess said Williams left out precautionary and I found this from something he said earlier in the week.

Philbs and Kingy are more than likely to play this week. I still might give Fitzy one more week but he’s getting really close.”