In todays league express in martyn sadlers page he says that he understands that john bateman had a meeting last week with warrington owner simon moran with a veiw to signing for next season with a transfer fee heading to odsal.

The Bratford fans won't be happy

Is he really that much better than Currie, Laithwaite, Ben Evans and Bridge the Younger?

Difficult to answer that one. How do you compare Myler, Briers, Ratch and GOB ? He looks an older player than his years suggest. He has 'attitude', I suppose you could say he is a bit of a mongrel, in a positive sense. Fearless taking the ball forward. I personally think he may have been over-played by the Bulls as whenever I have watched him he has looked pretty pooped after the ball carry.

Warrington have been after him for some time I think, this is not just the result of Bradfords immediate financial problems.

The big issue and gamble is, how will he develop over the coming 1-2 years ? We have fantastic coaches, and an excellent track record in signing people on (Atkins, Hodgeson, Solo etc). Who am I to second guess the 'talent spotters' ?

I really like his aggressive attitude (dirty play will have to be trained out of him though). That is just my personal preference though.

dont really need him and tbh dont really want him.

Needs to lose the rats tail

What's popular in Yorkshire was popular in the rest of the country in 1982 and when I say popular they were still e

If its true.. he doesnt know about it https://twitter.com/#!/johnbateman1 I think we'll have a lot of articles like this written until the review of the club is complete.

If its true.. he doesnt know about it https://twitter.com/#!/johnbateman1 I think we'll have a lot of articles like this written until the review of the club is complete.

Or more to the point... is he worth paying money for when we have such players coming through anyway?

The lad thinks he's a member of Kajagoogoo. Much rather have Limahl in the P&B than Bateman.

That is an excellent point. The Bradford board believe that Wire offered them £300k, and were turned down. If true, that does seem an awful lot of money for what is still a promising, but unproven player.

Anyway, this is all speculation. I doubt if many people really know what is happening, including 'Well read'.

Rats tail has to go.

One would have to imagine that the people at your club seem to think so if they're willing to shell out what would more than likely be an expensive transfer for a 18 year old instead waiting patiently for the lads you mention to develop and push for a 1st team place.

I personally wouldn't have a clue or could possibly form a reasoned opinion because I haven't seen any of those lads play. How old are they all?

I think Currie played in the same academy team that JB captained. Could be wrong though.

He May just be a bit Shy De Shy....

I hope thats creative journalism or someone is on a wind up, for the next few years at least our 2nd row is going to be Ben Westwood and Trent Waterhouse so where would John Bateman fit in ? You can't pay that sort of money for a bench player.

We already have some good back row prospects in the youth setup so what would this say to them ?

I'd prefer us to stick another £200k on top and bring Sam Tomkins home, as a Warrington supporter as a kid it would surely be his dream to put on the primrose and blue.

To be fair Warrington supporters' opinions of their young upcoming players has always been optimistic.

Go back ten years and there were 'the future is bright' threads on here because we had the likes of Dave Alstead, Steve Maden and Mike Callan coming through the ranks....then it was Durbin and Pickersgill, lots of our signings have had the "do we really need him when we have X coming through..." asked, not least Chris Hicks when we had Kevin Penny coming through